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• Jiujitsu of the Spirit; Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison's In visible Man.

  Author:Joel PeckhamFrom:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20228,663 words Critical essay 1450LKEYWORDS: Ellison, Invisible Man, storytelling, African American, subversion, Trueblood, trickster The Trueblood passage in Invisible Man is one of Ellison's most controversial pieces of writing. Who is Jim...

• Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware's: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.

  Author:Teresa FeroliFrom:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20229,292 words Critical essay 1550LKEYWORDS: Chris Ware, race, post-slavery subjects, trauma, graphic novel, American history I argue that Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth shares with the work of cultural critics Saidiya Hartman...

• The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin's Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray.

  Author:Jae Young ParkFrom:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20229,164 words Report, Critical ess... 1640LKEYWORDS: Bertram, Charles Robert Matuiin, Kean, Byron, Scott, John Murray, collaboration Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London...

• A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur's Hermeneutic Ontology.

  Author:William TateFrom:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 202210,389 words Critical essay 1330LKEYWORDS: Richard Wilbur, "All That Is," Hans-Georg Gadamer, hermeneutic ontology Richard Wilbur's "All That Is" foregrounds the poet's thematic interest in ontology: the poem is a meditation on what is and human...

• The Reading Closet.

  Author:Sunggyung JoFrom:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20226,294 words Essay 1510LKEYWORDS: reading, closet, private, everyday, aesthetic, inner life In this essay, I introduce and conceptualize the term "reading closet" to describe one's voluntarily exiling oneself from the corporeal world and...