Criticism, Volume 56, Number 1, Winter 2014

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 56, Number 1 (Winter 2014)

Table of Contents

Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Passive Resistance
David J. Getsy

Tom Ford and His Kind
Lee Wallace

Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of the Digital
Todd Tietchen

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Phantomnation":  Cinematic Specters and Spectral Collectivity in Dictée and Apparatus 
Mayumo Inoue

Face Values: Optics as Ethics in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
Rochelle L. Rives

Reviews

Nina Sosa on The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay

Will Stockton on Sexual Type: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley by Mario DiGangi

John R. Reed on Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel by Jonathan Arac

Donald E. Pease on The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature By Justine Murison

Andy Engel on North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space by Jody Berland