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This essay provides a computational close reading of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis. In particular, it examines how measurements of its basic building blocks—the chapters, quotations, and pages—can inform our understanding of how Auerbach came to terms with the representation, and distribution, of three thousand years of literary history in a single literary-critical work. By taking the measurements of Mimesis , we are in a better position to assess not only how it functions as a work of literary criticism, but also how it challenges us to imagine the way literary works exist in and over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SCORCHED EARTH Beyond the digital age to a post-capitalist world JONATHAN CRARY 144pp. Verso. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. We are living in a state of emergency. The climate is collapsing, the [...]

POETRY ON STAGE The theatre of the Italian neo-avant-garde GIANLUCA RIZZO 472pp. University of Toronto Press. $85. It was late June 1979 when a group of internationally renowned poets that [...]

ART YOUNG'S INFERNO Original Art edition ART YOUNG 188pp. Fantagraphics. 25.99 [pounds sterling] (US $29.99). By the 1930S, Hell was in need of an update. Humans were as sinful as [...]

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MARY BEARD John Williams's novel Stoner became a must-read rediscovery of 2013. I'm afraid I resisted. But I am intending to sit down this summer with the last of his [...]

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson's magisterial analysis of cultural production in the twentieth century, was published twenty-five years ago. To date more than 80,000 copies [...]

The article analyzes the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf, focusing on the travels of the character Clarissa and efforts to chart her walks through the city of London, England. It attempts to follow the itineraries of Clarissa in combination with that of the character Peter in an effort to comment on how Woolf used interior monologue to represent memory and urban spaces.

James Layton and David Pierce THE DAWN OF TECHNICOLOR, 1915-1935 448pp. George Eastman House. 40 [pounds sterling] (US $65). 978 0 93539828 1 Hollywood, it seems, has always had a [...]