This is a zine-style syllabus of an undergraduate literary theory and cultural studies survey at Cal Poly Pomona. The course has two units. The first is a broad orientation to literary theory by touching on formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and historicism briefly before using representative examples to read Shelley’s Frankenstein in a…[Read more]

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This paper considers the prospect of a “critical book history” that blends critical theory with studies of the book as a material and cultural object. This concept parallels similar efforts in the digital humanities for a critically engaged digital practice, as explored in a 2018 American Quarterly special issue, the #transformdh movement, and Deb…[Read more]

This article examines the ways in which literary journals organized the intellectual life and literary culture of the so‐called third‐wave emigration in the 1970s and 1980s. It focuses on the two periodicals Kontinent and Sintaksis (founded in 1974 and 1978, respectively)–not merely through the lens of individual contributions or statements by ed…[Read more]