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...Ali Chetwynd Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature 1945–1975 , by LeMahieu Michael , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 244 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Ali Chetwynd Fictions of Fact and Value:  The Erasure of Logical...

...Gregory Leadbetter [email protected] The Value of Poetry , by Falci Eric . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 198 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 The history of literary criticism is deeply laden with the discussion of poetry, but homing...

... the value form and the products of labor under capitalism—what Karl Marx suggestively calls “all the magic and necromancy” shrouding capital accumulation. Capitalism inescapably conjures its own phantoms and so remains haunted by the spectral figures of “dead labor” occulted under the sign of value...

..., however, challenges this conventional reading. Setting the text against the emerging superhighway ethic-which values the individuated automobile over established communities, conquest of nature over integration with nature, and productivity over all else-reveals a more nuanced and forceful critique...

... of the US cycle. To do so, it brings into dialogue critiques of everyday life; the Warwick Research Collective’s definition of “world-literature” as “the literary registration of . . . combined and uneven development”; Jason W. Moore’s world-ecological analysis with Marx’s theory of value; and Silvia...

... a useful life is made possible by nourishing one’s own solitude and valuing the solitude of others. Ultimately, this essay argues that the idea of public solitude can help us understand Moore’s poetics, the strategies and structures that defined her engagement with poetry. Although consistently important...

...Junha Jung Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching Go d (1937) is known as a “speakerly” text. This essay argues that the novel is also a “listenerly” text—that, as in her work in general, in Their Eyes Hurston celebrates close listening as much as speaking—and that this valuing of listening...

... in something more ongoing. Tying Invisible Man ’s contentious ending to this conversation allows us to glimpse the shared, complex value of the anonymous narrator’s underground circumstances and Ellison’s creative process. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 composition Invisible Man novel...

...Jordan S. Carroll This essay examines the US literary publisher Grove Press from 1951 to 1970. During this period, Grove promoted an aesthetic that Susan Sontag termed the “new sensibility,” one that valued impersonal sensations over personal expression. Grove thus became a key mediator between...

..., antihomogenizing historiography comes closer to what Wicomb values in Conrad and Joyce. Finally, the author shows how the novel offers a critique of the poststructuralist/postmodernist understanding of language as authorless and self-canceling, arguing that this view has, historically speaking, functioned...

..., and addresses it directly in her French Ways and Their Meaning . Part of the agenda of that slim primer was to illustrate, on the basis of the French example, that (if properly handled) curiosity and reverence are not antagonistic but mutually animating cultural values. Achieving this ideal state, Wharton...

... valued as gold— Alas, they are accounted as earthen pots, Work of a potter’s hands! —Lamentations 4 A pronounced drift in recent studies of elegies written in English has been from psychology to ethical philosophy, from attention to the psy­ choanalytic drama...

...” (170), which reduces a literary object’s value to confirming knowledge claims made by nonliterary, nonaesthetic sources. I’ll conclude on a more mundane pedagogical note that hopes also to speak to Clune’s larger project of aesthetic judgment’s rehabilitation. Nowadays my syllabi contain a section...

... Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human wants us to choose both of them, but not necessarily Peter Singer’s version of animal rights. Singer is notorious for arguing that the lives of certain animals can have more value than certain humans with disabilities. Linett’s new book argues...

... that the overdetermination of racial values by the political economy of capitalism presents a no-win situation. Even the New Negro’s revaluation of black­ ness as a source of pride appears in Larsen’s work as a hopeless attempt to defy the reification of blackness as a sign of working-class inferiority. Larsen’s...

... in modernity. Indeed, the novel offers not only an allegory of innocence and experience in the figure of Niel, or an allegory of social change in the decline of Marian Forrester, but also an allegory of aesthetic value that mediates between the two. For if Niel Herbert struggles to reconcile himself...

... of the poet. Chapters explore the primary categories for thinking about the relation of reading to fiction: readers, authors, plots, and values. Each chapter includes a summary of basic issues in the field, a description of ways that feminist Twentieth-Century Literature 51.3 Fall 2005 373...

... the issue of the value of the different coins the two imagine to be in their would-be victim’s posses­ sion, Don is not interested, and insists “First off, I want that nickel back”: though “it’s only a fuckin’ nickel,” he wants it back and does not seem to care what the man’s other coins may be worth...

... the labor theory of value represents commodities: the meaning and value of the work derives from the process of its production. For the modernist literature Adorno considers to have the highest value, this process involves a linguistic imitation of the structure of the commodity fetish. The poem...

... relationship. For Cather, the tour­ ist gaze—as a modern form of ritual that restores the relation between landscape, aesthetic value, and cultural heritage—could heal the alien­ ation from the land that Americans had suffered through the dominance of speculators, who treated land as a commodity.3...