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Literary Studies
May 2, 2016
Kafka's Cognitive Realism
Emily Troscianko
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Philip Witteveen
In her first monograph, Kafka's Cognitive Realism (Routledge, 2014), Emily Troscianko set out to answer a brief, cogent question: "Why is Kafka so brilliant? Why do I still want to …
Literary Studies
March 30, 2016
Family Resemblance
An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov, eds.
Hosted by
Philip Witteveen
When Marcela Sulak was planning classes in the MFA program she directs at Bar Ilan University, it became clear that the traditional prose/poetry binary was not going to work. In …
Literature
December 21, 2015
See You In Paradise
J. Robert Lennon
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Philip Witteveen
J. Robert Lennon is a novelist, actually--better known for his longer work (Mailman, Familiar, Happyland). His most recent book, though, collects his short stories from the past 15 years: See …
Literary Studies
November 30, 2015
Colson Whitehead
The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature
Kimberly Fain
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Philip Witteveen
Colson Whitehead's fiction has drawn varied criticism. On the one hand, there's the scholarship of the African diaspora, a tradition that takes the long view of Whitehead--extrapolating him from their …
Literature
September 13, 2015
American Homes
Ryan Ridge
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Philip Witteveen
Ryan Ridge's American Homes (University of Michigan Press, 2014) is at odds with category: it doesn't really fit neatly, or even at all, into any preconceived notion of what prose …