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Criticism articles from January 2009
Criticism is a quarterly journal published by Wayne State University Press in Detroit, Mich. Its subject is literary criticism and is read by scholars, educators, students and artists in the fields of literature and art.
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Criticism archives from January 2009
August Wilson's Lazarus complex.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Although King Hedley II is the eighth play in the August Wilson cycle, it is the only play that Wilson intentionally created as a sequel to a previous play. King Hedley II repeats scenes, characters and actions--preparation of a sacrificial...
Antebellum fantasies of the common sailor; or, enjoying the knowing Jack Tar.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... He holds him with his glittering eye--The wedding-guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The renewed emphasis on the knowledge of the...
On singularity and the symbolic: the threshold of the human in Calvino's Mr. Palomar.(Italo Calvino)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Italo Calvino's representation of animal ontology in Mr. Palomar, particularly in his discussion of the albino gorilla and the iguana, is rare in its complex and deeply philosophical portrayal of the captive animal and its relationship to human...
Fast bind, fast find: the history of the book and the modern collection.(Essay)
January 1, 2009... It is the deepest enchantment of the collector to enclose the particular item within a magic circle, where, as a last shudder runs through it (the shudder of being acquired), it turns to stone. --Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project This...
Habermas goes to hell: pleasure, public reason, and the republicanism of Paradise Lost.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... I am concerned here with what counts, for Milton and for us, as the legitimate use of public reason. Specifically, I ask whether linguistic vulnerability--our capacity for being affected, altered, and even taken in by words, especially when they...
Communism at Birkbeck.(Birkbeck College)(Conference notes)
January 1, 2009... Conference Review: "On the Idea of Communism," Birkbeck College, 13-15 March 2009 The conference "On the Idea of Communism" took place at Birkbeck College, in the University of London, on 13-15 March 2009. There were twelve speakers, and...
Queering African studies.(African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization by Neville Hoad. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Pp. 187. $60.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Neville Hoad offers a refreshing approach to a question that has plagued...
In-credible wealth and panic in the "new economy".(Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy by Christian Marazzi. Translated by Gregory Conti. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2008. Pp. 180. $14.95 paper. As an economic crisis of epic proportions continues to tear through...
Disparities of flatness.(Mission Reports: Artistic Practice in the Field- Ursula Biemann Video Works, 1998-2008)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... Mission Reports: Artistic Practice in the Field--Ursula Biemann Video Works, 1998-2008 edited by Ursula Biemann and Jan-Erik Lundstrom. Bildmuseet, Sweden: Umea University; Bristol, UK: Arnolfini, 2008. Pp. 208. 29.90. [euro] When entering...
