Founded 30 years ago, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal presents articles by eminent and emerging critics, scholars, and artists on a wide variety of issues central to contemporary criticism and culture.
In CI new ideas and reconsideration of those traditional in criticism and culture are granted a voice. The wide interdisciplinary focus creates surprising juxtapositions and linkages of concepts, offering new grounds for theoretical debate. In CI, authors entertain and challenge while illuminating such issues as improvisations, the life of things, Flaubert, and early modern women's writing. CI comes full circle with the electrically charged debates between contributors and their critics.
VOLUME 32, NUMBER 1, FALL 2005:
Richard Neer
Connoisseurship and the Stakes of Style
Georg Stanitzek
Texts and Paratexts in Media
Jan Baetens
Novelization, a Contaminated Genre?
Lawrence Kramer
Music, Historical Knowledge, and Critical Inquiry: Three Variations on The Ruins of Athens
Fritz Breithaupt
The Invention of Trauma in German Romanticism
Mark McGurl
The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction
Franç;alcois Jullien
The Shadow on the Picture: Of Evil or the Negative
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