Critical Inquiry, vol. 34, no 2 (hiver 2008)

Critical Inquiry has published the best critical thought in the arts and humanities since 1974. Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal presents articles by eminent 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.


Vol. 34, no 2 (hiver 2008)


Jacques Rancière
Why Emma Bovary Had to Be Killed

Tzvetan Todorov
Moving Targets: An Interview by Danny Postel

Diarmuid Costello
On the Very Idea of a ‘Specific' Medium: Michael Fried and Stanley Cavell on Painting and Photography as Arts

Jeffrey Knapp
“Sacred Songs Popular Prices”: Secularization in The Jazz Singer

Miriam Bratu Hansen
Benjamin's Aura

Ricardo Alarcón
The Return of C. Wright Mills at the Dawn of a New Era