ns 69 | Fall/Winter 2007

Featuring an interview with MH Abrams, reviews of new books by Walter Benn Michaels, John McGowan, and Paul Smith, plus a special section on online criticism.

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Meryl Altman

Meryl Altman teaches English and Women's Studies at DePauw University. She has published articles on modernist American poetry, theories of metaphor, the history of sexuality, Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, and Simone de Beauvoir (current project). She also writes periodically for the Women's Review of Books.

Poetry | Fiction | Interviews & Essays | Provocations | Surveying the Field

Surveying the Field

• Why I Read: on Barbara Johnson, Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation
  Appears in: ns 65-66: The NYU GA Strike

MR BOOKS

Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.

Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.

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