Criticism, Volume 58, Number 4, Fall 2016

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 58, Number 4, Fall 2016

An Atlas of Allusions: The Perverse Methods of Guy Debord's Mémoires
Ella Mudie

Cadaverous Intimacies: Disgust, Desire, and the Corpse in Edgar Allan Poe's “Valdemar”
Suzanne Ashworth

The Ghost in the Machine: Emotion and Mind–Body Union in Hamlet and Descartes
Michael Slater

New Bourgeoisie, Old Bodies: Performing Post–Civil Rights Black Privilege in Tar Baby and School Daze
Candice M. Jenkins

Corporatizing Life in a World System with Thomas Pynchon: “Networks of Interest” and Dispersed Organization
J. Paul Narkunas

Reviews

Kristin Flieger Samuelian on Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility by Hina Nazar

Stephen Schryer on Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams by Anna Siomopoulos

Anne Freadman on Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson and Carl R. Housman

John Corso Esquivel on The Ethics of Earth Art by Amanda Boetzkes