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Criticism articles from March 2006
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 March 2006
Medium Poe.(Edgar Allan Poe)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... IN A JACK COLE COMIC from November 1949 Plastic Man nearly meets his match. (1) The villain, hangdog-faced escaped criminal Phil Sanders, has gone straight and avoided the law for the last two years. Everything changes when he tries out for a...
Helen Keller, Henry James, and the social relations of perception.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Introduction
Henry James's The Bostonians (1886) is shaped around a remarkably close, and for a time robust, relationship. This unites Verena Tarrant and Olive Chancellor, whose conversation, like that of their associates,...
"Arm the minds of infants": interpreting childhood in Titus Andronicus.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Prologue
"The history of childhood," writes Lloyd de Mause, "is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken." (1) Taking his cue from Philippe Aries's claim that medieval children were seen merely as miniature versions...
A feminine "writing that conquers" Elizabethan encounters with the new world.(Essay)
March 22, 2006... Introduction
A man who represents his nation delights in exploring a virginal body of land, then takes possession of "her" through an act of seizure figured as penetration. This story of colonization is, of course, a familiar one. Yet...
On Amanda Anderson's The Way We Argue Now.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory, by Amanda Anderson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 224. $19.95 paper. $59.50 cloth.
IN A COUPLE, NOTHING IS more undyingly contentious than the assertion that...
Critical attachment: at home in the in-between.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Defenses of universalism, like attacks on it, are increasingly a trivial pursuit, for it is no longer clear whether there is anyone at home at either end.
Bruce Robbins, in Feeling Global
WHEN I WAS ASKED to contribute to an...
Reply to my critic(s).
March 22, 2006... MY RECENT BOOK, The Way We Argue Now, has in a sense two theses. In the first place, the book makes the case for the importance of debate and argument to any vital democratic or pluralistic intellectual culture. This is in many ways an...
