...Patrick Bixby Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath , by McNaughton James . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 240 pages. Beckett’s Political Imagination , by Morin Emilie . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 276 pages. © 2021 Hofstra...

... genealogically about black poetry? Where does experimentation begin in any genealogy? What accounts for trends in writing, critiquing, and anthologizing? (Intersectionality’s influence has put even more pressure on anthology politics.) These are questions that scholars of black poetry grapple with as a matter...

... of Anxiety and Influence; or, Tradition and the Thirties Talents .” In Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After , edited by Williams Keith Matthews Sean , 5 – 22 . Harlow, UK : Longman . Spender Stephen . (1967) 1979 . The Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People, 1930s–1970s...

...Caren Irr 2011 Caren Irr Postmodernism in Reverse: American National Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel Caren Irr Since the 1980s, the conceptual twin—or, better, dialectical counter- part—of literary postmodernism has been the national allegory. As Fred- ric...

... experience. Stevens redresses the social world with imagined “alternative worlds” ( Heaney 1995 : 1) designed from aesthetic principles while Harrison’s poems “derive from the politics of subversion” (2), not from a transcendent or “metaphysical” poetics. Heaney ranks Stevens above Harrison on this basis...

... in the damaged yet politicized civil society emerging from colonial rule and resistance, which draws on the nation to activate political potentialities denied in colonialism. As the Linati schema indicates, the episode is concerned not simply with the cultural imaginary of the “Nation” but also with its...

...Johan Geertsema Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Johan Geertsema Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year, Politics, and the Problem of Position Johan Geertsema Why is it so hard to say anything about politics from outside politics? Why can there be no discourse about...

...Jackson Ayres The Political Novel: Re-Imagining the Twentieth Century , by Scheingold Stuart A. , New York : Continuum , 2010 . 262 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Review Political Estrangement and the Novel The Political Novel: Re-Imagining the Twentieth...

...Peter C. L. Nohrnberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Peter C. L. Nohrnberg Political Economy, Tourism, and the Future of Ireland in Joyce’s Ulysses Peter C. L. Nohrnberg Writing to his brother Stanislaus from Rome in November of 1906, James Joyce expressed his belief...

...David James The Event of Postcolonial Shame , by Bewes Timothy , Princeton University Press , 2011 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review The Politics of Inadequacy The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes Princeton University Press, 2011. 224...

...Ryan M. Brooks © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 “Clean Hands”: Post-Political Form in Richard Powers’s Gain “Clean Hands”: Post-Political Form in Richard Powers’s Gain Ryan M. Brooks Richard Powers’s 1998 novel Gain is composed of two main narra- tives: the nearly two-hundred...

...Damjana Mraović-O’Hare No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives , by Belletto Steven , Oxford University Press , 2012 . 206 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Review Politics is a Game of Chance No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design...

... political effectiveness precisely within formal autonomy. By tracing the presence of the Cadillac in US rhetorics of race, the nature of the dozens as a formally hermetic expressive form, and the signifying potential of conspicuous consumption, I demonstrate the radical and utopian content of Ellison’s...

...Ulka Anjaria The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India , by Shingavi Snehal . London : Anthem , 2013 . 235 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Snehal Shingavi’s complex book, The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms...

..., the poetry of Walt Whitman more easily enables us to understand how antiliberalism became both Eliot’s default political position and a striking feature in the work of many other modernist writers. Furthermore, an attention to the most common setting of Eliot’s early poetry—the city—makes clear...

...Fuhito Endo Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 E4I Radical Violence Inside Out: Woolf, Klein, and Interwar Politics Fuhito Endo So Mrs Klein absolutely flourished here because for some reason the terrain was very, very receptive. —Hanna...

...Ambreen Hai HI Forster and the Fantastic: The Covert Politics of The Celestial Omnibus Ambreen Hai each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality has a name It is con­ scious and alert, it does things like...

...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...

...Matthew Oliver © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Pornography and the Politics of Reading in The Secret Agent Conrad’s Grotesque Public: Pornography and the Politics of Reading in The Secret Agent Matthew Oliver Why is The Secret Agent set in a pornography shop? This question...

...Christopher McVey © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Ethnic Modernism , by Sollors Werner , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2008 . 336 pages. Review Border Trouble: American Modernities, Ethnic Modernisms, and the Politics of Literary History Ethnic Modernism...