Criticism, Volume 60, Number 2, Spring 2018

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 60, Number 2, Spring 2018

Lyric without Subjects and Law without Persons: Vagrancy, Police Power, and the Lyrical Tales 
Sal Nicolazzo

Prosthetic Matters: On Blindness, Machines, and Knowledge in Diderot's Letter on the Blind
Tracy L. Rutler

The Dollar at the End of the Book: Vanessa Place, Inc., and Allegory in Conceptual Poetry 
Trevor A. Strunk

Lyric Redress: The Racial Politics of Voice and American Personhood 
José Felipe Alvergue

From Float to Flicker: Information Processing, Racial Semiotics, and Anti-Racist Protest, from “I am a Man” to “Black Lives Matter” 
Sarah Whitcomb Laiola

Book Reviews

Roy Pérez on The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS by Dagmawi Woubshet

Barrett Watten on The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing by Paul Stephens

M. C. Armstrong on This Thing Called the World by Debjani Ganguly

Joe Rollins on Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism by Rachel Greenwald Smith