Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

• World Without End

  Is the modernist novel obsolete in our disaster-haunted global era?

  Anjum HasanJul 10, 2020

  • Around the World

  • Fiction

  • Literary Criticism

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  Undisciplining Victorian Studies

  "What we ultimately wish to fight for is the freedom of scholars of color to work on any object, topic, and methodology they choose."

  Alicia Mireles Christoff, Amy R. Wong, Ronjaunee ChatterjeeJul 10, 2020

  • Literary Criticism

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  Teaching Shakespeare Under Quarantine

  Can we change the plot arc of the profit-driven, capitalistic university?

  Andrea CrowJun 27, 2020

  • Education

  • Literary Criticism

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  Time and Agency: Alternate History Fictions

  Keren Omry reviews “Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction.”

  Keren OmryJun 13, 2020

  • Around the World

  • Literary Criticism

  • SF

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  Unpacking Wharton’s Library

  Robert Minto reviews Sheila Liming’s “What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books.”

  Robert MintoJun 8, 2020

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Fun of Serious Noticing: On James Wood’s Latest Collection

  Angela M Giles reviews "Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997–2019" by James Wood.

  Angela M GilesJun 5, 2020

  • Literary Criticism

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Unvicarious: Reading with Sam See

  What Sam See is looking for in the art he loves is something other than escape. He is seeking forms of shelter.

  Caleb SmithMay 3, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Bullet/The Amulet

  For my work on Sidney Howard, I collected shards of meaning, but how to look at these discoveries was informed by Sam See.

  Wendy MoffatMay 3, 2020

  • History

  • Literary Criticism

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  See/Eakins/Swimming

  On Sam See’s “queer mythologies” and Thomas Eakins’s "Swimming."

  Christopher LoobyMay 3, 2020

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  Having an Orange Soda with Sam

  The landscapes around Bakersfield and other outposts in the California foothills became alternate geographies for the modernist maps Sam and I were drawing.

  Kate MarshallMay 3, 2020

  • Literary Criticism

  • Nonfiction

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  Once More, with Feeling

  Sam See’s work will always be timely, in that it calls us to attend to the transformative power of the feelings that go into a work of literature

  Michael NorthMay 3, 2020

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  Critical Love Studies

  Writing about Sam See today, I am stunned to discover that his thoughts have been hiding in plain sight among my own.

  Merve EmreMay 3, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism