Category: Criticism

The Re-Vision of the Muse: Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, Olga Broumas

Embracing Omnicide: President Reagan and the Strategic Mythmakers

Preparations for a Journey

Business and Poetry

Impulse and Virtue in Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility in Two Centuries

The Contents of Case No. 794

Complementary Portraits: James’s Lady and Wharton’s Age

Angels, Language and the Imagination: A Reconsideration of Rilke’s Poetry

Notes on Failure

In Praise of Gossip

Ezra Pound in Heaven

The No Self, the Little Self, and the Poets

Realists

Truth, Justice, and Other Spice for the Immature

The Bewildered Equilibrist: An Essay on Buster Keaton’s Comedy

Phenomenology of the Curtain Call

From Nuova Enciclopedia, by Alberto Savinio

From Nuova Enciclopedia, trans. by Richard Pevear

Solzhenitsyn versus the Last Revolutionary

Hugo’s William Shakespeare: The Promontory and the Infinite

Hot Spicks Versus Cool Spades

From The Feast of Icarus

The Unsung Hero

Emerson’s Ode to W. H. Channing

Three Versions of Peter’s Denial

How Many Lovers Had Virginia Woolf?

Standing by Words

Hardy’s Winter Words

Georgia O’Keeffe: A Late Greeting

No time for Comedy

Unspeakable Practices, Writable Acts: Franklin’s Autobiography

On the Experience of Unteaching Poetry

The Art of Dreaming

A Reading of The Magic Flute, by Jean Starobinksi

A Reading of The Magic Flute, trans. by Frederick Brown

Three Versions of Faulkner

Lionel Trilling: The Mind and Its Discontents

What Was Modernism?

Us or Them

The Shape of Death in American Autobiography

The World on Film

Three Sisters

Reflections on Versailles

Fairy Tales

Yeats’s Esoteric Comedy

Women’s Stories, Women’s Selves

The Narrative Sequence

Moral Fiction

The Grip of Frost

Opera as Expression