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Literary Studies May 2, 2016

Kafka's Cognitive Realism

Emily Troscianko

Hosted by 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.

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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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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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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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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 …