Criticism, Volume 65, Number 2, Spring 2023

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 65, Number 2, Spring 2023

“Nobody Was Ever Lonesome”: The Lyric Vision of John Ashbery’s “Litany”
Tim DeJong

Assemblage, Sourcework, and Ritual in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Spencer Lee-Lenfield

Racial Historicism
George Porter Thomas

The Antifascist Politics of Absolutely Inoperative Gestures: From Adorno to Agamben to the Marx Brothers
Tyson E. Lewis

Reviews

Susanna Ashton on To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry

Jill Darling on Ghost Words and Invisible Giants by Lheisa Dustin

Vincent Haddad on Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism by Paul S. Hirsch