Texas Studies in Literature and Language Recent Issues

Articles

• “The Moon Shines Down the Stair/To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics

by David Ben-Merre

• Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter

by Yoshiaki Furui

• Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lovely Londoners

by Bomi Jeon

• Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne

by Sun Jai Kim

• The Surprising Success of C.R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean and Murray

by Jae Young Park

• Jinjitsu of the Spirit: Trublood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

by Joel Peckham

• The Reading Closet

by Sunggyung Jo

• Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

by Teresa Feroli

• A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology

by William Tate

• The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

by Luke Sayers

• Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels

by Robert Lance Snyder

• Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction

by John G. Peters

• The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernsim in Claude Mckay’s Banjo

by Tomohiro Hori

• Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”

by Haiyan Xie

• Creative Creatures

by Patricia Clare Ingham

• Charles d’Orléans’s “Fowle Langage”

by Holly Barbaccia

• “The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman

by Cailin Flannery Roles

• Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

by Annie Bolotin

• A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission

by Jay N. Shelat

• The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts

by Domino R, Perez

• “You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series

by Jennifer Lozano

• The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling

by Christopher González

• Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity

by Charles Ramírez Berg

• Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior

by Frederick Luis Aldama

• From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s

by Alisa Perren

• Shakespeare the Formalist: Reading and Rewriting John Marston in the Poets’ War

by Meghan C. Andrews

• Post-9/11-Disaster Katrina: Reenacting American Innocence in Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun

by Jung-Suk Hwang

• The Critique of Reason and Biopolitics in William Blake’s The Four Zoas

by Haram Lee

• A Schoolhouse of Their Own: Economic Erotics in The Children’s Hour

by Margaret Speer

• Lautrémont, Anarchism and the Origins of the Avant-Garde

by Neil Nehring