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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Jo March And "Me": Self-Recognition And Enchantment In Greta Gerwig's Portrayal Of Literary Ambition In Little Women, Britney R. Wells
Jo March And "Me": Self-Recognition And Enchantment In Greta Gerwig's Portrayal Of Literary Ambition In Little Women, Britney R. Wells
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Despite the cinematic success of Greta Gerwig’s 2019 Little Women, literary scholars have yet to compare Gerwig’s directorial moves to Louisa May Alcott’s nineteenth-century novel. Relying on reader-response theory and peer-reviewed literature relevant to Alcott’s text, I examine Gerwig’s statements in interviews following the production of her film, focusing on comments that speak to her subjective response as a reader of Alcott’s novel. Rather than apply reader-response theory to this discussion broadly, I concentrate on what reader-response theorists call self-recognition and enchantment within the context of Gerwig’s response to Alcott’s Little Women. Further acknowledging this paper’s limitations, I …
James Joyce’S “The Dead” And The Irish Nation, Hyrum G. Baird
James Joyce’S “The Dead” And The Irish Nation, Hyrum G. Baird
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This paper investigates themes of Irish nationalism in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” Drawing primarily in Joyce’s 1907 essay “Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages” as a source for Joyce's political views at the time he wrote “The Dead,” I outline Joyce’s critique of both Irish nationalism and British Imperialism, which Joyce synthesized into a general contempt for Ireland’s compromised national identity. Benedict Anderson’s theory of nations as “imagined communities” provides a theoretical underpinning for Joyce’s transcendence of nationalism. I argue that both nationalist and anti-nationalist readings of “The Dead” are difficult to resolve with Joyce’s documented political views. …
The Intersection Of Gender And Ecohorror In Poe’S Short Fiction, Ellie Dana
The Intersection Of Gender And Ecohorror In Poe’S Short Fiction, Ellie Dana
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This article argues that Poe uses female characters to express ecohorrific anxieties and imagine posthumanist ways of being. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," Poe associates Madeline with nature's terrors by describing Madeline's disease as distinctly physical and coordinating her exit from her tomb with a raging storm. In "Berenice," Poe uses the violations of the titular character's body to enter into conversations about the rapid extraction of natural resources and the possibility of sentience beyond material existence. An ecohorrific reading of Poe’s texts reveals how Poe dismisses women as merely corporeal beings; however, ecohorror also reveals how …
The Tyrannical Woman: The Collapse Of Idolized Feminine Sexuality In Blake’S Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion, Asha A. Lambson
The Tyrannical Woman: The Collapse Of Idolized Feminine Sexuality In Blake’S Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion, Asha A. Lambson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
One year before the publication of William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of modern Western feminism, published A Vindications of the Rights of Woman. In her influential essay, she describes the concept of the tyrannical woman: a woman who, oppressed by reductive and stereotypical views of femininity, especially within the Madonna-whore complex, turns to forms of cunning and trickery to gain power over her environment. This paper explores Oothoon’s character in Blake’s Visions and how, over the course of the poem, she becomes a tyrannical woman. Oothoon, often praised by critics of Blake as …
Narrative Blindness: Gretta And The Limits Of Seeing In Joyce’S “The Dead”, Madison Reber
Narrative Blindness: Gretta And The Limits Of Seeing In Joyce’S “The Dead”, Madison Reber
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This essay examines narrative vision and its correlation with gender representation in James Joyce's “The Dead,” focusing mainly on how the narration renders Gretta both visible and unseen. The story is framed by the language of sight in which words such as eyes, watching, and looking repeatedly reveal how meaning is formed. Yet the narrative consistently restricts readers from seeing Gretta's interiority, reducing her to a mere reflection of Gabriel's consciousness, which leads Gretta to become an example of what Simone de Beauvoir theorizes as “the Other”. Scholars commenting on “The Dead” often note that Gretta's objectification comes from Gabriel's …
Brains And Hearts: Virginia Woolf’S Natural, Incomparable Care In Mrs. Dalloway, Olivia L. Landgraf
Brains And Hearts: Virginia Woolf’S Natural, Incomparable Care In Mrs. Dalloway, Olivia L. Landgraf
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This paper offers an ecofeminist reading of Mrs. Dalloway that centers vulnerability as a unifying ethical concept through which Virginia Woolf interrogates care, selfhood, and the human relationship to the natural world. While existing scholarship has examined Woolf’s use of nature in relation to aging, loss, trauma, and sexuality, I argue that these themes are bound together by a shared condition of ontological vulnerability. Drawing on ecofeminist theory and care ethics, the paper contends that Woolf challenges inherited Cartesian dualisms that separate rationality from nature and mind from body, revealing how such separations distort ethical perception and impede care.
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The 'Thing Itself': Virginia Woolf's Materialism, Kathryn Andronowitz
The 'Thing Itself': Virginia Woolf's Materialism, Kathryn Andronowitz
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Cover And Front Matter
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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The Faith Crisis As Death: Grief In Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Terrible Sonnets", Kaden Nelson
The Faith Crisis As Death: Grief In Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Terrible Sonnets", Kaden Nelson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The "Family Of Things": Mary Oliver, Anthropomorphism, And Conflicting Approaches To Spirituality In Nature, Sophie West
The "Family Of Things": Mary Oliver, Anthropomorphism, And Conflicting Approaches To Spirituality In Nature, Sophie West
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The Bower Of Bliss As An Allegory For Ireland, Katherine Ries
The Bower Of Bliss As An Allegory For Ireland, Katherine Ries
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The Metamodern Aesthetic As Reconciliatory Theology In Gilead, Henry Purser
The Metamodern Aesthetic As Reconciliatory Theology In Gilead, Henry Purser
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
An Appalachian Expression Of Rootedness: Exploring Rootedness In The Writings Of Simone Weil And Wendell Berry, Luke Bratton
An Appalachian Expression Of Rootedness: Exploring Rootedness In The Writings Of Simone Weil And Wendell Berry, Luke Bratton
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Cover And Front Matter
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Wyatt Shot First Storytelling, Justice, And The Creation Of A Hero In Stuart Lake’S Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, Esther C. Lay
Wyatt Shot First Storytelling, Justice, And The Creation Of A Hero In Stuart Lake’S Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, Esther C. Lay
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Absent Mothers And Their Effects On The Heroines' Self-Actualization In Jane Austen's Final Three Novels, Gillian Carter
Absent Mothers And Their Effects On The Heroines' Self-Actualization In Jane Austen's Final Three Novels, Gillian Carter
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Thou Swearest Thy Gods In Vain: The Victory Of Christ As Deus Ex Machina In King Lear Over Apollo In Euripides's Orestes, Aaron B.Y. Gorner
Thou Swearest Thy Gods In Vain: The Victory Of Christ As Deus Ex Machina In King Lear Over Apollo In Euripides's Orestes, Aaron B.Y. Gorner
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
“Linked” And Unlinked: Temporal Identity And Intergenerational Connection In Zitkala-Ša’S “The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman”, Ilse Eskelsen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Reading Whereas: Translation As Resisting Equivalence, Shiyang Su
Reading Whereas: Translation As Resisting Equivalence, Shiyang Su
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Interpreting Identity: Seeing Cultural Identity As Fluid In Jhumpa Lahiri’S Interpreter Of Maladies, Caleb D'Evegnee
Interpreting Identity: Seeing Cultural Identity As Fluid In Jhumpa Lahiri’S Interpreter Of Maladies, Caleb D'Evegnee
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
“The Most Wretched Of Commodities”: Shelley's Monster And Kafka's Vermin As Proletarian Heretics, Aiman Adeel
“The Most Wretched Of Commodities”: Shelley's Monster And Kafka's Vermin As Proletarian Heretics, Aiman Adeel
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
"Everything That He Sees": Placing The Egotistical Wordsworth In The Yarrow Poems, Gabriella Schwartz
"Everything That He Sees": Placing The Egotistical Wordsworth In The Yarrow Poems, Gabriella Schwartz
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Migrating Languages: Cultural Mistranslation In Sembène Ousmane’S “The Promised Land” And Ágota Kristóf’S The Illiterate, Ester Luna
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Weird Geometry: The Operation Of Anti-Sacred Spaces In “The Immortal” And “The Call Of Cthulhu”, Washington C. Pearce
Weird Geometry: The Operation Of Anti-Sacred Spaces In “The Immortal” And “The Call Of Cthulhu”, Washington C. Pearce
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Haunting, Healing, And Trauma In Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, Reese Grindstaff
Haunting, Healing, And Trauma In Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, Reese Grindstaff
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Knowing No Bounds: What Blake’S “Bounding Line” Tells Us About Binding In The Book Of Urizen, Europe A Prophecy, And Songs Of Experience, Margaret R. Crane
Knowing No Bounds: What Blake’S “Bounding Line” Tells Us About Binding In The Book Of Urizen, Europe A Prophecy, And Songs Of Experience, Margaret R. Crane
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.