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...Alexandra W. Schultheis Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Postcolonial Lack and Aesthetic Promise in The Moor’s Last Sigh Alexandra W. Schultheis I n his documentary film The Riddle of Midnight, Salman Rushdie re­ turns to India 40 years after independence to see...

...Matthew Stratton Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 !4I Start Spreading the News: Irony, Public Opinion, and the Aesthetic Politics o f US.A. Matthew Stratton Irony is perhaps democracy’s best instrument. — Public Opinion Quarterly 1938 (T.V. Smith 19) I n...

... II epic Trilogy (1944–46), this desired private relationship with aesthetic objects motivates the recovery of an aestheticized female god, the Lady, from the margins of a masculine-normative artistic tradition that systematically mitigates her cultural significance. I draw from Pierre Bourdieu’s...

... that, in spite of the intellectual historical relationship between philosophy and poverty, such as that which Greaney explores in modernist thinkers, the profound physicality of deprivation resists ontological theorizing (11). The aesthetic significance of poverty, he argues, lies in literature’s grappling...

...Jeffrey T. Nealon Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI Disastrous Aesthetics: Irony, Ethics, and Gender in Barthelme s Snow White Jeffrey T. Nealon The observer ought to be an amorist. —Kierkegaard (47) F ro m...

...Sean McCann Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 HI Training and Vision: Roth, DeLillo, Banks, Peck, and the Postmodern Aesthetics of Vocation Sean M cCann W hat is hastily called deconstruction as such is never a technical set o f discursive procedures, still...

...Elizabeth S. Anker The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination , By Reichman Ravit , Stanford University Press , 2009 . 213 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Law,  Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics The Affective Life of Law: Legal...

...Jennifer P. Nesbitt Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics , by Kalliney Peter J. , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture...

... on the language and imagery of homoerotic entrancement to cultivate a mesmerizing—and distinctly queer—aesthetic, incorporating entrancement into their writing at the levels of both form and content. The article thus suggests that sexology provided writers such as Barnes and Rechy with an unexpected method...

...John Gibson Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience , by Altieri Charles . Cornell University Press , 2015 . 262 pages. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 This is an ambitious book. Its goal is to offer a reenchantment...

... like them and where in blazes did she get such intimate information? —Simon and Schuster, May 28, 1934 1930s aesthetic early-twentieth-century impersonality modernism sentiment Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 As Slesinger shows, despite their ideological feuds, modernist...

...Lisa Mullen The shocking defamiliarization of the everyday that took place during World War II created a crisis in modernist aesthetics. This crisis emerges both in Eliot’s anguished meditation on time, space, and infinity in “East Coker,” and in Powell and Pressburger’s playful satire about...

... be doubly naive: in elaborating Cather’s naive or sentimental art, we would have simply aestheticized an aestheticization of empire. But that is not the case. It is not enough to say that Cather is aesthetically sentimental and culturally-historically naive. To grasp what truly distinguishes her, one...

... and aesthetic ripples within her previous idealization of sensory “unification.” The possibility, indeed desirability, of unification in Between the Acts , that is, is complicated by a political moment that puts an aestheticized version of “unification” in service of both nationalist and totalitarian...

... “grammatical investigations” that attempt to work against what Toril Moi has described as the “generalized doubt” that characterized the theoretical and aesthetic “skepticism” of postmodernism. Davis’s commitment to this process situates her work within post-postmodern debates about doubt and belief...

... visual aesthetic—its juxtaposition of translucent, glowing color with opaque line that holds and tempers it—and its power to shape psychological interiors by shaping exterior surroundings. Especially in narrating moments when a character struggles to comprehend her relationship to another person...

... among some of Huxley’s characters who forgo ethics in favor of immediate sensual pleasure, or what Huxley would term aestheticism. Crucially, this aestheticism depends on cruelty and the exercise of power. Huxley’s depictions of these aesthetes owes a debt to the “Diary of the Seducer” section...

...Derek Ryan This essay argues that a posthumanist ethics is at the heart of modernist aesthetics. Drawing connections between literary ethics and posthumanist theory, it reads D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Snake” and Virginia Woolf ’s essay “The Death of the Moth” as examples of nonanthropocentric ethical...

... it first appeared, reading it alongside Jolas’s individual contributions to the magazine’s language of magic, and considering the ways it anticipated the verticalist theory that Jolas would go on to cultivate in the magazine, this essay recovers Porter’s contribution to the magazine’s aesthetic vision...

... how the poem unites the key elements of danse macabre —skeletal imagery, musical procession, grisly humor—with apprehensions of the absent mother, an approach founded upon but aesthetically distinct from original symboliste works such as Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal , or the work of American...