Criticism Volume 54, Number 4, Fall 2012

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

Poetry, Terrorism, and the Uncanny: "Timothy McVeigh's 'Invictus'"
David McCooey

Black Skin, Black Masks: The Citational Self in the Work of Glenn Ligon
Lauren DeLand

A "Reconcepted Am": Language, Nature, and Collectivity in Sun Ra and Henry Dumas
Nathan Ragain

The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth, and the Interview as Genre
Whitney Arnold

Aesthetic Uncommon Sense: Early Modern Taste and the Satirical Sublime
Eric Byville