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Contemporaries Essays

[_]Tree[_] of C[___]od[__]es

05.24.12

Matt Rager

Peer Reviewed Articles

Dead Pledges: Debt, Horror, and the Credit Crisis

05.07.12

Annie McClanahan

Contemporaries Essays

“What the ghost wants”: Kevin Young’s Ekphrasis

04.03.12

Stefanie Wortman

Looking at ekphrasis in this way can help us to see it as another in a series of projects to undermine or complicate the centrality of self in the lyric.

Contemporaries Essays, Uncategorized

Loving Miéville’s Sentences

02.12.12

Joel Burges

What does it mean to love your object of critique, especially when you know better?

Contemporaries Essays

Scale and Method: A Reply to Jeremy Rosen

01.02.12

Matthew Wilkens

Peer Reviewed Articles

Ang Lee and James Schamus’s Neo-Indies: The Ultimate Movie Machine

12.20.11

Lisa Siraganian

Peer Reviewed Articles

“Window Seat”: Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era

12.04.11

On the afternoon of March 13, 2010, neo-soul singer Erykah Badu walked though Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the site of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. Rarely meeting the eyes…

Contemporaries Essays

Combining Close and Distant, or, the Utility of Genre Analysis: A Response to Matthew Wilkens’s “Contemporary Fiction by the Numbers”

12.03.11

Jeremy Rosen

Contemporaries Essays

The Dave Show

11.10.11

Tim Personn

Contemporaries Essays

“Not Much Left”: Wageless Life in Millenial Poetry

10.09.11

Margaret Ronda