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Fiction Passing for Non-Fiction: (Un)Real Identity and Fake News in The Human Stain Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ohad Reznick
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Agency, Mobility, and Constraint in Neoliberal Fiction of Female Labor Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michael K. Walonen
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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“See I Know How to Grab It”: Capturing Money in the Neoliberal Heist Film Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Joe Conway
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Metafiction, Lexical Ostentation, and Censorship in Umezaki Haruo’s “B-tō fūbutsushi” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Erik R. Lofgren
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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“The Comrades are Sweet, but They Never Chat, They Make Speeches All the Time”: On Laughter and Linearity in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lewis MacLeod
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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“Live in Fragments No Longer. Only Connect.”: The Alienation and Self-Restoration of the Subject in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Yuan Xue
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Srirupa Chatterjee, Swathi Krishna S
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Defects of (Human) Nature? Cognitive Biases in Golding’s Lord of the Flies Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Dawid Bernard Juraszek
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Introduction Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Andrew Kim, Ty Hawkins
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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“Prior Justification”: Neo-World War II Films as Rhetorical Appeals for “Just War” in the New Millennium Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Vincent Casaregola
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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Barack Obama’s “Drone Speech” and the Meaning of “Just War” After 9/11 Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-06 John LeJeune
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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Severe Pain and Good Faith: Just War Theory’s Right Intention in the Bush-Era Torture Memos Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Laura A. Sparks
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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Einfühlung Als Gemeinschaft: Edith Stein, Emotional Numbing, and Anhedonia—A Way Forward Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Brandon W. Koble
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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Innocence, Provocation, and Moral Injury: The Problem of Discrimination in Phil Klay’s Redeployment Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Ashley Kunsa
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Reading Contemporary American Warfare with Just War Theory Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Ty Hawkins, Andrew Kim
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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“Maimed and Naked Monks in the Bloodslaked Dust”: Augustine, Aquinas, and Cormac McCarthy on Just War Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-28 J. Columcille Dever, Lydia R. Cooper
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Structural Racism and Just War Theory in Post-World War II America: Susan Choi and Toni Morrison on Violence, Imagination, and Human Flourishing Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Jennifer Haytock
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Vietnam Vet Noir After 9/11: Quarry, Dog Soldiers, and the Anti-Ethical Appeal of a Contemporary Subgenre Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Ty Hawkins
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Emerging Trends in Horror Film and Television: Part 2 Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Karen J. Renner
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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“You Can’t Stop Picturing that Beautiful Handset”: The Found Phone Trope in Twenty-First-Century Media Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Vicky Brewster
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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After Peele: Get Out’s Influence on the Horror Genre and Beyond Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Mikal J. Gaines
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Prestige Horror Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Karen J. Renner
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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Moments of Being, Moments of Nonbeing: Humanism and Posthumanism in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” and To the Lighthouse Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Sierra M. Senzaki
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2022)
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Sense and Sensibility and Psychoanalysis: Jane Austen and the Kristevan Semiotic Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Marina Cano
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2022)
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Inoperativity and Forgiveness in Paul Muldoon’s “Dirty Data”1 Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Wit Pietrzak
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2022)
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“Breaking the Frame:” The Role of Artmaking in Narratives of Migration and Diaspora Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Penny Simpson
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2022)
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Emerging Trends in Horror Film and Television: Part 1 Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Karen J. Renner
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022)
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Contemporary Gothic Horror Cinema: The Imagined Pasts and Traumatic Ghosts of Crimson Peak (2015) and The Woman in Black (2012) Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Xavier Aldana Reyes
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022)
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Complex Slasher Characters in American Basic Cable Television Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Ahmad Hayat
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022)
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Contemporary Basque Horror: Legado en los huesos (2019) and the Value of Regional Readings within National Traumas Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Rebecca Wynne-Walsh
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022)
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The Ghosts in the Machine: Screened Reality and the Desktop Film Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Chera Kee
Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022)
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The Secret History of HB-2: Bathroom Safety in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Andrew Black
(2022). The Secret History of HB-2: Bathroom Safety in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-21.
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“The Spirit of Martyrdom is Over”: Irony, Communication, and Indifference in Daniel Defoe’s The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Jeffrey Galbraith
(2022). “The Spirit of Martyrdom is Over”: Irony, Communication, and Indifference in Daniel Defoe’s The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 22-39.
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The Impossibility of (Not) Serving: Sovereignty and Subjectivity through Inferno IX Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-21 S. Jonathon O’Donnell
(2022). The Impossibility of (Not) Serving: Sovereignty and Subjectivity through Inferno IX. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 40-58.
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Gastropods, Viruses, and Deep Time in The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Amit R. Baishya
(2022). Gastropods, Viruses, and Deep Time in The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 59-78.
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“You Who Called Me Scout are Dead and in Your Grave”: Fathers and Daughters in Go Set a Watchman and to Kill a Mockingbird Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Betty Jay
(2021). “You Who Called Me Scout are Dead and in Your Grave”: Fathers and Daughters in Go Set a Watchman and to Kill a Mockingbird. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 251-267.
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From Superhero to Tragic Hero: Rethinking Genre and Character in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Kenton Butcher
(2021). From Superhero to Tragic Hero: Rethinking Genre and Character in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 268-284.
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The Girl with All the Gifts: Eco-Zombiism, the Anthropocalypse, and Critical Lucidity Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Scott Eric Hamilton
(2021). The Girl with All the Gifts: Eco-Zombiism, the Anthropocalypse, and Critical Lucidity. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 285-304.
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Anachronism in the Anthropocene: Plural Temporalities and the Art of Noticing in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Emily Yu Zong
(2021). Anachronism in the Anthropocene: Plural Temporalities and the Art of Noticing in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 305-321.
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Archival and Affective Displacements: The Ethics of Self-reflexivity, Shame, and Sacrifice in J.M. Coetzee’s Life-Writing Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Marc Farrant
(2021). Archival and Affective Displacements: The Ethics of Self-reflexivity, Shame, and Sacrifice in J.M. Coetzee’s Life-Writing. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 173-191.
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Being Vendible: Commodification and Agency in All’s Well That Ends Well Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Matthew Kendrick
(2021). Being Vendible: Commodification and Agency in All’s Well That Ends Well. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 192-211.
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Literary Siblings, Decoloniality, and Delinking from the State: Reading Moby-Dick at the Open City of Ritoque, Chile Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Maxwell Woods
(2021). Literary Siblings, Decoloniality, and Delinking from the State: Reading Moby-Dick at the Open City of Ritoque, Chile. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 212-230.
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Wrestling with the Eco-Self in John Webster's Duchess of Malfi Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Elizabeth D. Gruber
(2021). Wrestling with the Eco-Self in John Webster's Duchess of Malfi. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 231-249.
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Speculative Formalism: Religion and Literature for a Postsecular Age Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Sean Dempsey
(2021). Speculative Formalism: Religion and Literature for a Postsecular Age. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical II”, pp. 79-98.
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Reparative Reading and Christian Anarchism Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Raili Marling, William Marling
(2021). Reparative Reading and Christian Anarchism. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical II”, pp. 99-116.
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College Parochialism Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Jessica Ling
(2021). College Parochialism. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical II”, pp. 117-135.
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Can Postcritique Handle a “Heaven-sent” Text?: Quranic Enchantment in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf and Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Kyle Garton-Gundling
(2021). Can Postcritique Handle a “Heaven-sent” Text?: Quranic Enchantment in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf and Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical II”, pp. 136-154.
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The Limit Point of Hope: Black Theology and Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Rachel Arteaga
(2021). The Limit Point of Hope: Black Theology and Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical II”, pp. 155-172.
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Chasing David Copperfield’s Memory of a Stained Glass Window: Or, Meditations on the Postsecular and Postcritical Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Winter Jade Werner, John Wiehl
(2021). Chasing David Copperfield’s Memory of a Stained Glass Window: Or, Meditations on the Postsecular and Postcritical. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical”, pp. 1-9.
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Natural Theology and the Revelation of Little Dorrit Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Mark Knight
(2021). Natural Theology and the Revelation of Little Dorrit. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical”, pp. 10-23.
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Finding Hope in the “Radical Ordinary”: Charles Dickens’s Perspectives on Christianity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Christine A. Colón
(2021). Finding Hope in the “Radical Ordinary”: Charles Dickens’s Perspectives on Christianity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical”, pp. 24-40.
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Children of the Culture Wars: Secularism, Aesthetics, and Judgments of Value in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Ray Horton
(2021). Children of the Culture Wars: Secularism, Aesthetics, and Judgments of Value in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical”, pp. 41-58.
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The Trouble with Talking to God: Devotional Address in Jorie Graham’s Prayer Poetry Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Sara Judy
(2021). The Trouble with Talking to God: Devotional Address in Jorie Graham’s Prayer Poetry. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 32, “Religion, Criticism, and the Postcritical”, pp. 59-77.
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“Food Becomes a Measured Thing”: Family, Food, and Violence in Latina Memoir Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Cristina Herrera
(2020). “Food Becomes a Measured Thing”: Family, Food, and Violence in Latina Memoir. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 279-296.
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Archives, Asylums, and Remembering Landscapes in Barry’s The Secret Scripture Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Shanna Early
(2020). Archives, Asylums, and Remembering Landscapes in Barry’s The Secret Scripture. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 297-312.
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Jennifer Egan’s Digital Archive: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Humanism, and the Digital Experience Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Daniel Fladager
(2020). Jennifer Egan’s Digital Archive: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Humanism, and the Digital Experience. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 313-327.
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Fanny’s Place in the Family: Useful Service and the Social Order in Mansfield Park Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Ruth G. Garcia
(2020). Fanny’s Place in the Family: Useful Service and the Social Order in Mansfield Park. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 328-344.
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Man-Made Menopause and Architectural Embodiment in Herman Melville’s “I and My Chimney” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Jamie Watson
Herman Melville’s 1856 short story “I and My Chimney” illustrates a dispute between an old man and his wife about the domestic inconveniences caused by the chimney centrally located in their home. The old man desires to preserve his chimney at all costs. Meanwhile, the wife seeks to reduce the size of the chimney for mobility within the home and the comfort of her family. R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. and
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Against Rights: Jeremy Bentham on Sexual Liberty and Legal Reform Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Carrie D. Shanafelt
“it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong” Jeremy Bentham, “A Fragment on Government,” 1776 (393) “If Wealth and Bodily Pleasures are no means of H...
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“The Spaces Between”: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory and the Interstitial Archive Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Stephanie Anderson
“Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry”: Bernadette Mayer’s 1972 multimedia installation piece, Memory, combines photography and audio recording, and its first audio segment begins with...