Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and
Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and …

This essay examines the figure of the lay reader in recent debates about critique and
postcritique. It argues that an attachment to" lay reading" not only fuels the current …

Criticism and Truth | Critical Inquiry: Vol 47, No 2 Skip to main content University of Chicago
Press Journals logo University of Chicago Press Journals Search Search This journal …

How do critics get from reading a literary text to producing" a reading" of it? This article
considers major close readings of Jane Austen's Emma to bring out conventions that tacitly …

For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound and
interrelated phenomena. The first is the pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called …

In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of
paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the …

How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the
same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism …

This second book project argues that psychological diagnosis drives literary and scientific
innovation in the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century US. I demonstrate how …

Fredric Jameson's 1986 essay,“Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,”
is invoked in postcolonial studies mostly as an instance of a bad generalization, marking the …

Has postcolonial literary criticism been affected by the postcritical antihistoricist turn? The
short answer is no. It is hard to imagine what an antihistoricist postcolonial literary criticism …