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Cody Marrs, Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies. An Aesthetics in All Things
Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies sensitively analyzes both what beauty is for Herman Melville and also what beauty does to some of his characters, narrators, or poetic voices, part...
Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig, and Klaus Stierstorfer, editors. Citizenship, Law and Literature
Since the emergence of citizenship studies around twenty years ago, there has been a growing catalogue of scholarly works dedicated to uncovering the relationship between citizenship and literatu...
Stamm, Laura, The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era
Laura Stamm’s study of the New Queer Cinema that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s—The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era—offers compelling insights into queer filmmakers’ turn to the...
Candace Fleming, Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
In Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell, award-winning author Candace Fleming composes a well-crafted narrative that seeks to further fuel t...
Henry, Miller. The Book of Conversations with David Edgar. Edited by Michael Paduano.
In the mid-2010s, a scarce and fascinating book appeared on eBay.com. It was a small, green, Morocco goatskin-bound manuscript. Gold gilt-stamped letters on the cover read, “Book of Conversatio...
From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness
The article explores the link between cuteness and animality, focusing on depictions of so-called animal odd couples, with emphasis on the effects cuteness may have for manipulating and flattenin...
The Whaleness of the Whale: Interspecies Relationality in Moby-Dick and In The Heart of the Sea
Herman Melville’s enigmatic white whale Moby Dick is undoubtedly one of the most famous characters of American literature. His symbolic and allegorical potential, especially as manifested in hi...
Livestock Rendered: Animal Painting, Meatpacking and the Founding Collection of the Frye Art Museum
This paper explores contradictions surrounding animal paintings in the Founding Collection of Seattle’s Frye Art Museum. The collection, assembled by Charles and Emma Frye, who settled in Seatt...
Native American Studies Meets Animal Studies: Linda Hogan�...e Radiant Lives of Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism
The aim of this article is to offer a theoretical framework derived from animal studies to read The Radiant Lives of Animals by Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan. While Hogan’s insights into non-hum...
“Fierce and Free, or Caged and Cowed”: Interspecies Oppression and Survival in Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport (2019) explores the social, cultural, and environmental crises of the contemporary United States from the perspective of a white, middle-aged woman and mother ...