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The Absolute Horizon
"Why," asks James Draney at the beginning of his review of Fredric Jameson's latest book, Allegory and Ideology, "does Fredric Jameson’s interpretive method — his insistence that the political interpretation of texts constitutes the 'absolute horizon' of all meaning — still call for defense in today's academic scene?" I'm not... Continue reading
Posted Aug 30, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Their Own Approach to Book Criticism
At the Bookseller, Adam Blades, a "lecturer in Publishing," attempts to defend "celebrity tastemakers" (those with "book clubs") by making this claim about actual literary critics: On the contrary, literary critics have rarely been objective. From Edgar Allen [sic] Poe to Elizabeth Hardwick, all promote their own approach to book... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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New Review
My review of Albert Rolls's The Demon in the Text can now be found at Review 31. From Rolls’s perspective on the way the ‘life’ inflects the work in Pynchon’s case, it would seem that Pynchon’s fiction is a near-reversal of TS Eliot’s dictum that a literary work is an... Continue reading
Posted Jul 21, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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New Review
My review of Jane Alison's book Meander, Spiral, Explode can now be found at Full Stop. The kind of formal experiment Alison is eager to encourage is pretty much encapsulated in the book’s title. Meander, spiral, and explosion are forms of spatial movement, although Alison also discusses additional such forms:... Continue reading
Posted Jul 21, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Liberalism and Literature
(This essay was published a long time ago--as most of the references attest--in a now defunct online journal. Since as far as I can tell its archives no longer exist, I am re-posting the essay here. I mostly still agree with it.) Much has been written about the purported dominance... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Inventing Literature
(This essay was published in American Book Review in 2000, but has never been available online.) In his book In Plato’s Cave, Alvin Kernan describes a career crisis that he no doubt shared with many other literary scholars of his generation: The canon of great books, authors and their powerful... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Breaking the Code
(I recently rediscovered the following essay, written a number of years ago but no longer, as far as I can tell, available online. It still seems relevant, and thus I am reposting it here.) Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate is as thorough a refutation of the premises underlying radical social... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Hierarchies of Literary Culture
In "Book Blogs as Tastemakers," an article by Beth Driscoll published in the Australian academic journal Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, the author discusses two "networks" of literary blogs, Romance fiction blogs and what she calls "highbrow literary blogs," to determine their influence "as shared expressions of readers’aesthetic... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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A study of the novels of the American writer James...
Posted May 28, 2019 at TRE Press
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A collection of essays considering the current...
Posted May 28, 2019 at TRE Press
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In the early to mid 1960s, an iconoclastic mode of...
Posted May 28, 2019 at TRE Press
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Essays on the first-generation American...
Posted May 28, 2019 at TRE Press
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A selection of essays on current women writers of...
Posted May 28, 2019 at TRE Press
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This book surveys formally and stylistically...
Posted May 27, 2019 at TRE Press
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What do we talk about when we talk about...
Posted May 27, 2019 at TRE Press
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The Idea of Literature surveys a variety of topics...
Posted May 27, 2019 at TRE Press
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New Review
My review of Remedia, the new novel by Michael Joyce, is now available at Full Stop: Michael Joyce is not only the author of what many consider the foundational work of hypertext fiction, afternoon, a love story(1987), but also probably the most important theoretician of hypertext as a literary medium... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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More on Purdy
Some passages in my original draft of the essay on James Purdy's poetry recently published by the Poetry Foundation had to be excised for reasons of space and relevance. But I still rather like much of what I said in them, so I am reprinting them here rather than discard... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Purdy the Poet
My essay on the poetry of James Purdy has now been published by the Poetry Foundation: Purdy wrote lyric poems throughout most of his career, although he confessed that he might have stopped had the composer Richard Hundley not set one of the poems (“Come Ready and See Me”) to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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On the Fiction of Tom LeClair
"In the Author’s Note, Michael cites the final word of Updike’s Rabbit quartet — 'Enough' — to assert an end to his own series. The 'Keever Books' don’t much resemble Updike’s famous novels, other than through the most obvious parallels: four novels about a basketball player after his heyday. LeClair... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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I offer here no overarching theory about the...
I offer here no overarching theory about the nature or direction of innovative writing by women writers, although as I do note in several of the essays in the first section, there is a recognizable affinity among numerous current writers for what I am here calling "fabulation." Otherwise it seems... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at Innovative Women Writers
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New Review
My review of David Hayden's Darker with the Lights on has been published at the literary Journal Splice: Darker With the Lights On evokes a filtering and transmutation of everyday reality, but these stories are at once both more purposeful and less insistently symbolic than dreams, more cogent than the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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New Review
My review of Shelley Jackson's Riddance, at Full Stop: If Riddance is truly a book about the paranormal (“necrophysics,” as Sybil Joines would have it), we could say it implicitly portrays the way language is haunted by its own ghostly origins and the now-spectral uses to which it has been... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Sinking or Swimming
In an interview with Lit Hub (for its "Secrets of the Book Critics" series), Madeleine Schwartz asserts that Broadly speaking, the internet has been terrible for book criticism and book critics. Book reviews have been shuttered and magazines have folded. It’s nearly impossible to make a living writing criticism, which... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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Still Inside That Book
In her response to listening to a reading given by John Dos Passos at the 92nd Street Y in 1965, Lydia Davis reflects on her own reading of Dos Passos as a formative experience: The Dos Passos book, whichever one it was, was also the first, or early, in the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2019 at The Reading Experience
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