Criticism, Volume 56, Number 4, Fall 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 4 (Fall 2014)

Table of Contents

Urban Panopticism and Heterotopic Space in Kafka’s Der Process and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Raj Shah

Gatsby’s Tattoo: Gesture, Tic, and Description
Alex Benson

“We fathom you not—we love you”: Wal  Whitman’s Social Ontology and Radical Democracy
Ryan Cull

The Great Criminal, the Exception, and Bare Life in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Stephanie Brown

Diogenes the Cynic and Shakespeare’s Bitter Fool: The Politics and Aesthetics of Free Speech
David Hershinow

Reviews

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe
Kimberly Juanita Brown

California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative by Jan Goggans
Joseph Entin

Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems by Steve Edwards
Erin Bell

Pragmatic Modernism by Lisi Schoenbach
Kate Stanley

The Novel and the Sea by Margaret Cohen
Colin Dewey