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  • “Seeming Strangeness”: Mina Loy’s Poetics of Disruption and Julia Kristeva’s Semiotic/Symbolic Model
  • Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace
  • Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
  • Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Issue 11 2022

“Seeming Strangeness”: Mina Loy’s Poetics of Disruption and Julia Kristeva’s Semiotic/Symbolic Model

Eva Isherwood-Wallace
Articles, Issue 11 2022
Mina Loy, the “rediscovered and reforgotten” poet of the early twentieth-century American avant-garde (Burke v-vi), wrote poetry that was characterized by strangeness and so unevenly received. Natalya Lusty poi... Read More...

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

Natalie Schriefer
Articles, Issue 11 2022
Both John Knowles’s short story “Phineas” and his novel A Separate Peace are bisected by the same incident: the shattering of the schoolboy athlete Phineas’s leg during a summer war game where narrator Gene “jo... Read More...

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Laura Gillespie
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2020. ISBN 9781541617773. $32. 365pp. In South to Freedom, Alice Baumgartner explores th... Read More...

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Henry Martin
Issue 11 2022, Reviews, Uncategorized
Manthorne, Katherine. Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. University of California Press, 2021. ISBN 9780520355507, £27 (hardback). 352pp.  Art institutions and publishers are cur... Read More...

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

Richard Hargy
Articles, Issue 11 2022
The George W. Bush administration’s intervention in Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2007 was decisive and remains undervalued and misunderstood. Throughout this time the US State Department determined American in... Read More...

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

Lily Ní Dhomhnaill
Articles, Issue 11 2022
The Liberties and The Liberties (1980) The Liberties in central Dublin has been so called since the 12th century when King Henry II bequeathed land outside the city walls to four manorial jurisdictions. Crucia... Read More...

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Gillian Groszewski
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
  Austenfeld, Thomas (Ed.). Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives. Suffolk: Camden House, 2019. ISBN 9781640140288. £71.65 (hardback). 206pp. In his introduction to Rober... Read More...

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Eoin O'Callaghan
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Wills, John. Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture. Johns Hopkins UP, 2019. ISBN 9781421428703. $34.95 (paperback). 296pp.  Published on the cusp of a new console generation and reviewed, here, in a... Read More...

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Courtney Mullis
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Sawires-Masseli, Marie-Christin. Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. (Volume 293 of American Studies) ISBN 978-3825369217. €45 (... Read More...
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