Literary Criticism

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• NLHA Bookstore Display Contest -- results are in

  
  Harvard University Press Publicity Blog — Authority: 108
  A while back we announced a contest whereby bookstores could create a display inspired by the now - much - lauded A New Literary of America , and wed pick the winner and showcase it on the blog. Realizing that a coveted mention on the university press blog to end all university press blogs might not be enough ...
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  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
  Congratulations to Laura Lomas, author of Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities , for winning the seventh annual MLA Prize in United States Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies . The prize is awarded for an outstanding scholarly study of Latina or ...
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• Why I haven’t posted about The Actor and the Housewife

  
  A Motley Vision — Authority: 459
  I kinda owe Shannon Hale an apology. I read The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel several months ago and then didn’t write a post about it. That’s actually not why I owe her an apology. I wouldn’t presume to suggest that I should say something about everything even slightly Mormon related that hits the public ...
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• Posterity: What Makes a Classics?

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  Last week’s Booking Through Thursday question concerned the posterity issue in literature. It asked whether any of the modern authors can measure up to the caliber of Dickens, Austen, and Bronte. While I’m not sure what qualities the host thinks give these authors their status but I must say, from my humble and ...
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• My country’s take on magic realism

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 121
  I started reading works by Latin American writers when I entered college. They appealed to me because they quenched my thirst for Literature both fantastic and profound. South America served as nutrient-rich petri dish for this kind of writing because of the political experience of the region. Chile, Bolivia, ...
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• "The Books at Hand": James Wood, The "True Scholastic Stink," and the Common Reader

  
  Blographia Literaria — Authority: 518
  In my post on Zadie Smiths essay on essays and the novel, I complained that Smith confines her analysis of the history and current state of fiction to the titles and authors that come "off the top of her head," even to the extent that this breezy shallowness causes her to ignore the highly relevant arguments from ...
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• Coming up...

  
  Working notes — Authority: 410
  -A post on Marshal McLuhan vs. Raymond Williams.-A post on why literary theory doesnt deal with aesthetics (often perplexing to those outside literature).-A post on the dividual in Deleuze and notions of community, via a nice passage from Red Mars.-A post on Jamesons deep notion that postmodern theory ends up thinking ...
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• Zadie Smiths Essay on Essays: Off with the Top of Her Head

  
  Blographia Literaria — Authority: 518
  Zadie Smith suffers from "novel-nausea." A response in the form of cantankerism: A new book by the American novelist-essayist David Shields (to be published here by Hamish Hamilton early next year) makes the case for irregularity. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto Shields argues passionately for the superiority of ...
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• For Umberto Eco

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 121
  This feeling I am secretly keeping is somehow similar to that of a school girl’s infatuation for her cute classmate sitting next to her. Only that in my case, I definitely am no school girl and the object of my desire, call it lust, is far from being somebody who happens to occupy the seat [...]
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• Books on Traffic

  
  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
  In honor of the years busiest travel week, NPR is doing a series on traffic safety , which inspired us to think about several recent Duke Press books nominally about the subject. Enda Duffys The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism returns to the early days of the automobile to examine how the experience ...
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• This Essay changed my mind about Zadie Smith

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  Zadie Smith has just come out with a new collection of ‘occasional’ essays entitled Changing My Mind. (Penguin, 2009). The first, ‘Their Eyes were Watching God: What does soulful mean?’ changed my mind about her.  Very much for the better.Here are some of the highlights:"I had my own ideas of "good ...
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• Moon water

  
  Working notes — Authority: 410
  Ive been reading Kim Stanley Robinsons unbelievable Mars trilogy lately--alongside Fredric Jamesons amazing Archaeologies of the Future--and this nicely happened to coincide with NASAs mission to crash Lcross into the moon in search for water. Its coincidental because the presence of water opens up an issue of ...
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• How should I start this research paper?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 171
  I am writing a Literary Criticism on "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller and I am writing about how the work reflects the period in which it is written (late 1940’s) and how the economic conditions determine the characters’ lives (Willy Loman’s suicide). I am having difficulty developing a good introductory ...
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• There are some stories

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 121
  “I could not decide whether to pull over or to go on. I politely told the driver of a Jaro-CPU jeepney that I was getting off, and ran after that familiar face. Only to learn that he was not alone; he was not unhappy like I thought; and that in his universe that early evening, [...]
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• ‘Best’ always comes with a question mark

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  Here’s D.G. Myers on the usefulness of lists:My own view of statements about the “best” or “worst ever” is that they are interrogative challenges. The claims come with understood questions attached at the end: Lolita is the greatest English-language novel written since 1880, [isn’t it? What else is, ...
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• When Hans Met Sarah: Everyone’s a critic.

  
  The Platform — Authority: 519
  “Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s ‘Going Rogue,’ I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.” — Matthew Continetti, The Washington Post, Nov. 17 Somehow we doubt that a lot…
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• The Musical Talmud: “Get Back” (by Demi Lovato)

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 470
  As a follow-up to Lee and Sheely’s excellent Think/Counterthink on the Miley Cyrus track “Party in the U.S.A.,” this edition of Musical Talmud wades into the shin-deep puddle of pop that ebbs and flows in the general area of the Jonas Brothers — the sunny shoal of music that feels comfortably warm until you ...
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• Updating "Melodramas of Beset Manhood," by Nina Baym

  
  Blographia Literaria — Authority: 518
  Aaron has brought up Nina Bayms canonical essay "Melodramas of Beset Manhood" twice recently— once w/r/t Mark Greifs essay on the struggle for gay marriage and then again in discussing the Publishers Weekly epic fail of coming up with a male-only shortlist for 2009. Not having read the essay (despite its ...
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• Enough interesting things and serious engagement to make it worth reading

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  Good exchange in the comments section over at Alone on a Boreal Stage, led by Zach ‘Hawkweed’ Wells, who first off quotes American poet Robert Pinsky"I think that if an audience for any art is having a good time, they are willing to suspend the need for comprehension for a while—that’s part of the pleasure. ...
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• Vendler on the Critics’ answering look

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  "The senses and the imagination furnish rhythms for the poet. The rhythms of the poet translate themselves back, in the mind of the reader, into the senses and the imagination. What is it about the critic that cannot rest content with this silent transaction? Most of the time the critic is just another reader, and ...
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