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Aesthetic disagreements have a long and spectacular history of bile and hatred. But literary study has become a war of political ideology rather than a dialogue concerning aesthetics.
The intangible, ineffable qualities of genius compel us to ponder its nature and presentation. Genius can't be held, caught, or simply spoken. It is the essence of a person.
The corporate fictions of our current generation of literary authors offer something other than critique and something more interesting than satire.
Writing addressing the diverse experiences of female, male, two-spirit native people, living both on and off the reservation, from urban and rural communities across the United States and Canada.
The experiential and structural “time-space compression” experienced in postmodern societies has brought matters of space, place, and mapping to the fore in social theory, cultural studies, and literary studies.
Experimental writers writers cultivate, cajole, inveigle, tyrannize, lionize, and seduce their readers, turn and turn about.
The literature of intersex asks us to think about how we might change our understandings of sex, embodiment, gender, sexuality, and medical ethics and practice.
This focus is dedicated to assessing new groups and organizations mobilized for racial justice, formed largely by young Black Americans.
The comeback of macronarrative as a print phenomenon is likely part of a broader shift that responds to the new network culture.
Contributors choose a dead author and a living author, both "working class," and write about the two.
As the finest achievements of literary modernism reveal, the most exciting life of cosmopolitanism is paradoxically embodied in its provincial incarnation.
Recent American fiction supplies a map partly corresponding to the world as it is and partly referencing a world to come.
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