In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism
to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close …

This essay considers the “descriptive turn” in literary studies from the vantage point of
poetics, arguing that the history of Western poetry, from the Greeks to the present, offers …

When, in an essay on the poet Théodore de Banville, Charles Baudelaire declares that
“hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language which are not only most agreeable but …

The form and formlessness of histories, regions, races, ballads, fictions, lists, characters, and
mountains are among the topics of concern in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days, and …

The Location of Experience argues that, through manipulating the psychological dimensions
of fiction's formal features, Victorian women novelists produced a philosophical account of …

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and
challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates …

Sharmila Sreekumar takes the watertight separation of literature from literary studies as a
fundamental entry point into the larger argument. While the former is frequently considered a …

The essay introduces major tenets in the current debate on postcritique, focusing especially
on the widespread rejection of symptomatic reading in literary studies and on the rejection of …

Breathing and the air are omnipresent in contemporary literature and film, be it in
engagements with ambiance, atmosphere, aura, ether, inspiration, influence, mood, and …

One way to tell the story of our discipline is as a story about reading. In the early twentieth
century, in order to establish the value of literary criticism, critics used the framework of …