Issue 3 2014

Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. A blurb on the back cover of Kevin J. Hayes’s A Journey Through American Literature describes the book as “like chatting with a o... Read More...

Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011. Lawrence P. Jackson’s The Indignant Generation provides a... Read More...

Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010. In recent years there has been a growing interest in finding new approaches to the relationship ... Read More...

“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).

Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition. Austin: U of Texas P, 2011. In 2001, Alma López’s digital collage, Our Lady appeared in an exhibition at... Read More...

Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. The question of abstraction in Wallace Stevens’ poetry, and the relation that it might have with the wider world, ... Read More...