Criticism Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2010

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.

Table of Contents

Shakespearean Vertigo: W. G. Sebald's Lear
Anita Gilman Sherman

Anosognosia, or the Political Unconscious: Limits of Vision in Ian McEwan's Saturday
Martin Ryle

Boring from Within: James Agee and Walker Evans at Time Inc.
Jeff Allred

"A Presage of Horror!": Cacotopia, the Paris Commune, and Bram Stoker's Dracula
Eric D. Smith

Consciousness Without Borders: Narratology in Against the Day and the Works of Thomas Pynchon
Richard Hardack