Rebecca Ariel Porte

Rebecca Ariel Porte is a member of the Core Faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is at work on a book about Paradise, Arcadia, and the Golden Age.

Lives of the Critics; or, Et in Arcadia Ego

Rebecca Ariel Porte takes in “Gallery of Clouds” by Rachel Eisendrath....

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LITERARY CRITICISM

The Aesthetics of Enchantment: Ange Mlinko’s "Marvelous Things Overheard"

Triptych image: Khalid Hussein, "Basbossa in the Sky," 2012 I. Words Are the Reverse of Pain “Taglioni’s Jewel Casket,” Joseph Cornell (1940) / (Image via moma.org) “TAGLIONI’S JEWEL CASKET,” conjured into form in 1940 by the artist Joseph ...

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All That Is The Case: On Susan Howe’s Chris Marker

nbsp;The small Victorian hotel where Madeleine disappeared had disappeared itself; concrete had replaced it, at the corner of Eddy and Gough. On the other hand the sequoia cut was still in Muir Woods. On it Madeleine traced the short distance ...

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The Zany, the Cute, and the Interesting: On Ngai’s “Our Aesthetic Categories”

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