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From: Contemporary Literary Criticism[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Torres situates Anzaldúa's work within the cultural context of postmodernism via the literary and philosophical...
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From: Contemporary Literary Criticism[(essay date 2007) Allen has been writing about contemporary and classic literary and genre fiction, as a freelance reviewer and independent scholar, since 1969. In the following specially commissioned essay, he...
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From: Contemporary Literary Criticism[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, revised by the author for publication in Contemporary Literary Criticism from her thesis on Naylor, McDonnell discusses the extent to which the female characters of Linden Hills...
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From: Contemporary Literary Criticism[(essay date 2007) Rubin was a book critic and regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times as well as the Wall Street Journal,Washington Times, and Christian Science Monitor. In the following specially commissioned...
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From: Contemporary Literary Criticism[(essay date 2007) Allen has been writing about contemporary and classic literary and genre fiction, as a freelance reviewer and independent scholar, since 1969. In the following specially commissioned essay, he...
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From: Criticism[(review date spring 1978) In the following excerpt, Krouse compliments Showalter's examination of "the female literary tradition" in A Literature of Their Own, but finds fault with Showalter's treatment of...
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From: Criticism[(essay date winter 1987) In the following essay, Landry addresses the political implications of Sexual/Textual Politics in the context of contemporary feminist theory.] "In our country culture has become so complex,...
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From: CriticismNo one has demonstrated more effectively than Derrida the degree to which the “symbolic systems” of structuralism are dependent on traditional metaphysical assumptions; and no one has argued more forcefully against the...
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From: Criticism[(essay date fall 2006) In the following essay, Bourassa traces the transformation of the cultural motifs of Zane Grey's prototypical Western novel Riders of the Purple Sage into the philosophical subtext of The...
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From: Criticism[(essay date spring 2008) In the following essay, Patke considers the question of poetic responsibility and the reputation of being a difficult poet in Horse Latitudes.] Understanding is itself a problematic category...
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From: Criticism[(essay date 1983) In the following review, Prince praises Figures of Literary Discourse as “an excellent introduction to (or reminder of) structuralist poetics, its major concerns and ambitions, its fundamental stance...
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From: Criticism[(essay date winter 1993) In the following essay, Bogue evaluates Scarface as a postmodernist metanarrative.] From its initial articulation as an architectural style, postmodernism has been extended to describe a...
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From: Criticism[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Morris examines the connections between capitalism, the recycling of refuse, and the recycling of artistic elements to suggest that Aira’s body of work presents “a new radical...
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From: Criticism[(essay date Fall 1988) In the following essay, Li surveys how Kingston establishes a uniquely Chinese-American female identity in The Woman Warrior.] In a span of twelve years since the publication of her first book,...
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From: Criticism[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Kuzner interprets John Milton's Paradise Lost through a variety of filters including the theories of Habermas.] I am concerned here with what counts, for Milton and for us, as...
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From: Criticism[(review date Fall 1980) In the following review, Naremore offers a positive assessment of Fables of Aggression, which he concludes "is the best piece of criticism we have" on Wyndham Lewis.] "I do not think I had ever...
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From: Criticism[(essay date Summer 1976) In the following essay, Eakin argues that The Autobiography of Malcolm X challenges traditional notions of the genre to which it ostensibly belongs.] When a complex and controversial figure...
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From: Criticism[(essay date Fall 1989) In the following essay, Schueller provides an analysis of The Woman Warrior as a work that offers insight into issues of racial, national, and gender identity.] Ever since its publication in...
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From: Criticism[(review date Fall 1981) In the following review, Punter offers a favorable assessment of The Political Unconscious, but takes issue with several aspects of the work.] In The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson has...
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From: Criticism[(review date Spring 1981) In the following review of Is There a Text in This Class?, Strohm provides a summary of Fish's critical arguments and offers a positive assessment of the volume.] Is There a Text in This...