Recently added articles from Criticism:
Preface.
Sep 22, 2004; ... CRITICISM: THE NEGATIVE connotations of the word are not far to seek, whether in the direction of the musty irrelevance of an over-fastidious and hermetic scholarship or the brutal attacks of the sort encouraged in the "criticism sessions" of Mao's Cultural Revolution. But in the ...
Projecting from possession point: Hong Kong, hybridity, and the shifting grounds of imperialism in James Dalziel's turn-of-the-century fiction.
Sep 22, 2004; ... "THE POPULATION OF HONGKONG as far as I am concerned," wrote the satirical columnist "Betty" in the China Mail on the cusp of the twentieth century, "consists of [my husband] William and about three hundred more, none of whom are Chinese." (1) Echoing common beliefs of Asia as static and ...
The "bestial mark" of race in "The Island of Dr. Moreau".(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Frederick Douglass Engages the Problematics of Race IN 1855, ON THE EVE of the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass published his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom. Early in this book Douglass takes issue with those who seek a biblical justification for slavery ...
Syphilis in Faerie Land: Edmund Spenser and the Syphilography of Elizabethan England.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2004; ... I. Syphilitic Apocalypse NEAR THE END OF the sixteenth century, the spread of syphilis in England seemed to many contemporary observers to have exploded into epidemic proportions. (1) London surgeon William Clowes reported in 1585 that there were not enough beds in London's ...
The inverse side of the structure: Zizek on Deleuze on Lacan.(Slavoj Zizek)(Gilles Deleuze)(Jacques Lacan)
Sep 22, 2004; ... IN AN INTERVIEW IN 1995, shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze was asked by French scholar Didier Eribon about his relationship with Jacques Lacan. In response, Deleuze told the following story: <Pre>Lacan noticed me when he devoted a session of his seminar to my bookon ...