Most Recent Articles from CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

• Gilbert Sorrentino's burial and rebirth of modernism. 

  ABSTRACT: This essay explores how Gilbert Sorrentino's novel Mulligan Stew declares an end to modernism and reactivates the concept of modernism...

  06/22/09 by Wells, John · More from publication

• "I revive, renew, and re-establish": mimetic catastrophe in Ben Katchor's: The Jew of New York. 

  ABSTRACT: For all of its narrative complexity, Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York is tightly structured around a central motif: "mimetic...

  06/22/09 by Cohn, Jesse S. · More from publication

• Postmodern hybridity and performing identity in Gish Jen and Rebecca Walker.('Mona in the Promised Land' and 'Rebecca Walker')(Critical essay) 

  ABSTRACT: Using Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and Rebecca Walker's Black White and Jewish, this essay explores a new mode of subjectivity...

  06/22/09 by Chen, Fu-jen · More from publication

• The work of play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. 

  ABSTRACT: Through its treatment of sport, recreation, and leisure, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest depicts play as an activity fraught with...

  09/22/08 by Bresnan, Mark · More from publication

• Quantum entanglement, chaos theory, and the unification of multiplicities in Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before. 

  ABSTRACT: The author posits that in The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco presents a narrative patterned on the quantum-mechanical theory of...

  09/22/08 by Brown, Paul Tolliver · More from publication

• "Tell my story": remembrance and revenge in Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Shakespeare's Hamlet.(Margaret Atwood) 

  ABSTRACT: The many literary traditions Margaret Atwood explores and subverts in Oryx and Crake tend to obscure the crucial genre form with which...

  09/22/08 by Barzilai, Shuli · More from publication

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