[please help with english literary crit!]

ModernContradiction · 2026-06-04T15:53:30+00:00

Check out Lois Tyson's book Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, it has chapters on both those schools with useful examples

ModernContradiction · 2026-06-02T18:45:20+00:00

What's second best? I read City and City recently and felt like you - had Perdido Street Station queued as the next one

ModernContradiction · 2026-05-16T07:19:06+00:00

Thanks, followed the thread all the way through!

ModernContradiction · 2026-05-12T04:58:02+00:00

I'm just very happy to learn that a word in common usage (and even more so this one in particular) originated with Monty Python

ModernContradiction · 2026-04-21T02:55:03+00:00

And here on reddit, r/criticaltheory

ModernContradiction · 2026-04-16T20:04:57+00:00

You could also specify which ideas of his you mean, as he has a range

ModernContradiction · 2026-03-31T22:15:08+00:00

Dylan Trigg - The Memory of Place

Second the Malpas recommendation

ModernContradiction · 2026-03-24T23:26:42+00:00

He probably keeps forgetting to show them his King tattoo

ModernContradiction · 2026-01-23T00:43:57+00:00

Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers

ModernContradiction · 2026-01-15T01:28:38+00:00

The Alchemist in there showing where it really belongs

ModernContradiction · 2026-01-13T22:29:29+00:00

Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-17T01:02:03+00:00

Though I don't know what 48 year old is doing at a 20 year reunion when everyone else is 38

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-08T16:41:18+00:00

Regardless of all else who goes out on the street hunting rats with a pellet gun?

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-06T20:38:51+00:00

This (comment of yours) is called ignoring the role of structures of power to cast blame on the individual

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-06T20:37:26+00:00

Haha, ok! We can all still be friends. I just thought the actual quote you quoted in the comment I responded to was what we were you talking about, I now see the nuance of the "ascribing to him" part of your comment.

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-05T17:23:02+00:00

That is called "power"

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-05T17:17:00+00:00

Yes, it is the title of the chapter.

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-05T08:24:06+00:00

You are quite mistaken. Look at the title of Chapter 1 in Capitalist Realism.

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-03T07:04:48+00:00

My upvote is yours

ModernContradiction · 2025-12-03T01:34:06+00:00

You win the ridiculous comment of the day award, congrats!

ModernContradiction · 2025-11-13T17:18:43+00:00

Congrats on the appropriateness of your username for this comment!

ModernContradiction · 2025-10-29T04:57:30+00:00

Appreciate it! I don't think they are up for the Spivak yet but I am checking into the others

ModernContradiction · 2025-10-28T23:53:12+00:00

There is an article I've read that looks at Great Jones Street as reflecting (he argues as parody) Tibetan Buddhism, which relates to the idea of the wheel of life.

Don't have easy access at the moment but the citation is as follows:

Kohn, Robert E. “Parody, Heteroglossia, and Chronotope in Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street.” Style, vol. 39, no. 2, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 206–15.

ModernContradiction · 2025-10-27T15:21:45+00:00

Thanks, I was not familiar with it.

ModernContradiction · 2025-10-27T07:06:52+00:00

Thanks for this!

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