Criticism Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 2011

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.

Table of Contents

Collyer Curiosa: A Brief History of Hoarding
Scott Herring 

"Read Mr. Sacher-Masoch": The Literariness of Masochism in the Philosophy of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze
David Sigler

The Beatiful, Horrifying Past: Nostalgia and Apocalypse in Don DeLillo's Underworld
Damjana Mraovic-O'Hare

Pale Fire and Johnson's Cat: The Anecdote in Polite Conversation
Sean R. Silver

"Out of Bounds of the Bound Margin": Susan Howe Meets Mangan in Melville's Marginalia
Jessica L. Wilkinson