The Work of Art
Work gets a bad rap. Chantal Pontibrand writes that in Marcusian terms, “work is seen as a shrinkage of human freedom by a coercive activity...
The Potential of the Female Gaze
Art “is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determines the place and the...
A Bit Judgmental for my Taste
I find season 10, episode 4 of Frasier, which I watched last night, an illuminating if unexpected frame through which to view Sartwell’s Political Aesthetics...
When Sins of Fathers Visit Gothic Protagonists and Novelists
The Biblical phrase that Anna Koustinoudi invokes in her Gothic Studies article, “Temporality, Narrative Discordance and the Phantom as Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Gaskell’s The...
Present and Eternal Time in A Christmas Carol
Beloved time traveler and reformed miser Ebenezer Scrooge picks up what the ghosts of past, present, and future are throwing down. At (tiny) Tim Cratchit's...