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... for this article was done when I was the 2017–18 NEH postdoctoral fellow in poetics. 1 Smith (2018) examines briefly some American poets whom she sees as having been writing recent political poetry to great effect: Danez Smith, Jos Charles, Justin Phillip Reed, CAConrad, and Evie Shockley. 2...

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

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...Andrew S. Teverson Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 »II Fairy Tale Politics: Free Speech and Multiculturalism in Haroun and the Sea of Stories Andrew S. Teverson Jacobites must speak in children’s rhymes, As preachers do in Parables, sometimes...

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...Damjana Mraović-O’Hare Review Politics is a Game of Chance No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives by Steven Belletto Oxford University Press, 2012. 206 pages Damjana Mraović-O’Hare At a recent Cold War studies conference, it was postulated...

... 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...

...Ben Clarke Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s , by Kohlmann Benjamin . Oxford University Press , 2014 . 228 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 As Benjamin Kohlmann argues in Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing...

...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...

...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...

...Matthew Levay Surrealism and the Art of Crime , by Eburne Jonathan P. , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2008 . 324 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Criminal, Political, Surreal Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan P. Eburne Ithaca: Cornell...

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