Criticism, Volume 59, Number 2, Spring 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 2, Spring 2017

From Sentiment to Security: Cugoano, Liberal Principles, and the Bonds of Empire
Jeffrey Hole

“We Put Our Hands on the Trigger with Him”: Guilt and Perpetration in Spec Ops: The Line
Tobi Smethurst

Lovesick in the Time of Smallpox: Romancing the State of Nature in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
Sandy Alexandre

Immaterial Thoughts: Brand Value, Environmental Sustainability, and Wall-E
Maria Bose

An Aesthetics and Ethics of Emergence, Or Thinking with Luce Irigiray's Interval of Difference
Jean-Thomas Tremblay

The Alchemy of Photography: “Grotesque Realism” and Hybrid Nature in Jerry Uelsmann's Photomontages
Shun-liang Chao

Reviews

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer on Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai

Andrew Pendakis on The Cultural Return by Susan Hegeman

Greta LaFleur on Orgasmology by Annamarie Jagose