...Samuel Cohen The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History , by Michaels Walter Benn , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 41 Reviews It’s the End of the World as We Know It The Shape of the Signifier: 1967...

...Františka Zezuláková Schormová Forget English! Orientalism and World Literatures , by Mufti Aamir R. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 304 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 “World literature is Orientalism, it is inseparable from it,” remarked...

... of the most resonant poetic responses to World War I. Recent criticism of Spectrism understandably tends to emphasize the hoax aspects of this fascinating episode in modernist history, focusing for example on the performance of identity. Yet Bynner himself stated his genuine affirmation of the anthology’s...

...Meltem Gürle The discussion of the use of voice and perspective in Snow constitutes one of the most interesting aspects of Fisk’s argument on Pamuk’s reception in the Western world. Fisk shares with the reader her observation that Ka, the Western-educated and alienated protagonist of the novel...

...Eleanor Reeds This essay reads the hidden histories of the First World War and the Algerian War of Independence in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World , focusing on their representation of a feminized resistance to war that takes silence as its most powerful...

... World War Poetry Criticism .” New Literary History 30 , no. 1 : 203 – 15 . Cole Sarah . 2009 . “ People in War .” In The Cambridge Companion to War Writing , edited by McLoughlin Kate , 25 – 37 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Davis Lennard J. 2014...

...Sarah E. Cornish The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics...

... fiction. Drawing on contemporary critiques of intimacy by Lauren Berlant and Leo Bersani, I argue that sociality in Woolf’s writing is an unhealing scar, a problem of subject-world relation that necessarily persists, but that in doing so, stimulates Woolf’s formal inventiveness. Registering impersonal...

...Daniel Aureliano Newman Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II , by Seiler Claire . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 290 pages. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 In The Sense of an Ending (1967), based on his 1965 Mary Flexner...

...Tonje Vold Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Tonje Vold How to “rise above mere nationality”: Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man in the World Republic of Letters Tonje Vold J. M. Coetzee’s work presents critical reflections on literature that circulate beyond their culture...

... in A World of Love , a late modern picturesque interrupts the romantic emplotment of Ireland’s entry into global capitalist networks. Works cited Adorno Theodor . 1991 . “ On Epic Naiveté .” Notes to Literature . Vol. 1 . Translated by Nicholsen Shierry Weber . New York : Columbia...

...Brian Gollnick Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America , by Siskind Mariano . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Mariano Siskind’s Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity...

...Anna Teekell By reading Samuel Beckett’s famously “unreadable” novel Watt (1953) in context as a novel of the Irish Emergency, the neutral Irish Free State’s euphemism for World War II, this essay argues that Watt ’s unreadability and encodedness are embodiments of the languages of post-traumatic...

...Laura Frost Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Huxley’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World Laura Frost “JL T have just been, for the first time, to see and hear a picture talk,” Aldous Huxley writes in a 1929 essay called “Silence Is Golden...

...Ursula K. Heise Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott , by Handley George , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2007 . 448 pages. Ursula K. Heise Poetry and the Natures of the New World...

...Jerome Meckier Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Aldous Huxley’s Americanization o f the Brave New World Typescript Jerome Meckier hen Aldous Huxley revised the Brave New World typescript1 be­ tween 27 May and 24 August 1931, he strove to Americanize his dysto­ pia. His...

... of World War II and engaging the work of Richard Wright and Albert Camus, Baldwin identifies in fascism. The seductions of fascism are obviated by the “acts of creation” by which “the individual” emerges. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 binding Black studies...

...Timothy J. Materer A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill . Edited by Hammer Langdon Yenser Stephen . New York : Knopf , 2021 . 723 pages. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 The publisher’s blurb for A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill states that Merrill...