Criticism, Volume 60, Number 2, Spring 2018
Criticism, Volume 60, Number 2
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