Criticism, Volume 59, Number 1, Winter 2017

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Criticism Volume 59, Number 1, Winter 2017

"Every Day You Are a New Person": Narration and Cosmopolitan Universalism in Jean Rhys's After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Jason R. Marley

Photography from the Inside Out: Robert Frank's Memorial Images
Benjamin Pollak

Charles Reznikoff's 1934 Testimony and the Idiom of American Violence
Justin Parks

Psychoanalytic Thinking and the Sexual Politics of Style
Scott St. Pierre

Touching Time: Poetry, History and the Erotics of Yiddish
Zohar Weiman-Kelman

Reparative Social Media: Resonance and Critical Cosmopolitanism in Digital Art
Rochelle Gold

Reviews

Sarah Ruddy on Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic by David A. Gerstner

James J. Hodge on Testing the Limit: Derrida, Levinas, Henry, and the Phenomenological Tradition by François-David Sebbah

Elizabeth Mazzola on Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage by Ariane M. Balizet

Collin Gardner on What Animals Teach Us about Politics by Brian Massumi

Roel van den Oever on Sex, or the Unbearable by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman