Criticism, Volume 59, Number 3, Summer 2017
Criticism, Volume 59, Number 3
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 59, Number 3, Summer 2017
Loneliness: Black Gay Longing in the Work of Essex Hemphill
Darius Bost
Oceania's Totalitarian Technology: Writing in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Tony E. Jackson
“Not the Usual Pattern”: James Baldwin, Homosexuality, and the DSM
Cynthia Barounis
Vehicles of Periodization: Melvin B. Tolson, Allen Tate, and the New Critical Police
Andy Hines
Masturbation and Physiological Romance in Teleny
Benjamin Bagocius
The Still, Sad Music of Humanity in Doom Metal's Romanticizing Machine
Atene Mendelyte
Reviews
Miles P. Grier on Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America by Katy L. Chiles
Sarah Dennis on “Not Altogether Human”: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance by Richard Hardack
Mayumo Inoue on Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry by Dorothy J. Wang
Thomas Leitch on Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny: Adaptation and ElasTEXTity by Julie Grossman