Criticism Special Issue: "The Wire" Edited by Jonathan Flatley and Charles Kronengold

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Table of Contents

Preface

Robert Levertis Bell and Paul M. Farber

Realism and Utopia in The Wire

Fredric Jameson

“The Game Is the Game”: Tautology and Allegory in The Wire

Paul Allen Anderson

“A Man Without a Country”: The Boundaries of Legibility, Social Capital, And Cosmopolitan Masculinity

Mark Anthony Neal

The Last Rites of D’angelo Barksdale: The Life and Afterlife of Photography in The Wire

Paul M. Farber

Constrained Frequencies: The Wire and the Limits of Listening

Adrienne Brown

The Depth of The Hole: Intertextuality and Tom Waits’s “Way Down in The Hole”

James Braxton Peterson

Greek Gods in Baltimore: Greek Tragedy and The Wire

Chris Love

Walking In Someone Else’s City: The Wire and The Limits of Empathy

Hua Hsu

“Precarious Lunch”: Conviviality and Postlapsarian Nostalgia in The Wire’s Fourth Season

Robert Levertis Bell

Capitalist Realism and Serial Form: The Fifth Season of The Wire

Leigh Claire La Berge