Critical Inquiry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
Shaul MagidCritical Inquiry"In the Yiddish lexicon of his youth, assimilation is called shmad, a term derived from the Hebrew for 'destruction.'" New on CI - Paul Mendes-Flohr's review of Shaul Magid's Meir Kahane, from @PrincetonUPress: https://t.co/Dpob2mhxZI https://t.co/KVpuFSdCYG
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and Piers Plowman
Nicolette ZeemanCritical Inquiry"The insights of Arts of Disruption are not packaged for ready transposition to different canons or archives." New on the CI Review, Julie Orlemanski's review of Nicolette Zeeman's The Arts of Disruption, from @OxUniPress: https://t.co/K8DAcRr9hw https://t.co/tMnta0473U
Hardcover, 2020
$130.00$105.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Poetry and Bondage
Andrea BradyCritical Inquiry"Figures for enforced constraint, imprisonment, and chattel slavery, as well as for animal control, underpin much if not all Western lyric practice." NEW on CI - Read Stephanie Burt's review of Andrea Brady's Poetry and Bondage, from @CambridgeUP: https://t.co/jZVMLonhGV https://t.co/Th6WOx3Kq9
Hardcover, 2021
$120.00$95.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation
Lenora HansonCritical Inquiry"Enough is a peculiar concept, at once defined by satisfaction and haunted by never." New in review: Carmen Faye Mathes reviews Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation, from @stanfordpress: https://t.co/BrVFAexN7e https://t.co/LBH4JsquFe
Paperback, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc GodardCritical Inquiry"To lose Godard is to lose one of the most fundamentally interesting and curious of the thinkers in cinema." Read CI Coeditor Daniel Morgan's tribute to Jean-Luc Godard on the CI blog. https://t.co/1dmASib1dt
Hardcover, 2000
$150.00$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Jennifer L. MorganCritical Inquiry"What Reckoning with Slavery brings to literary-historical studies is an archival practice that is at once historicist and reparative." Li Qi Peh reviews Reckoning with Slavery by Jennifer L. Morgan: https://t.co/r4E6p8Vp51 https://t.co/DvdsS2I7z5
Paperback, 2021
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Timothy BewesCritical Inquiry"Here as elsewhere, Bewes teaches us how to read novelistically, where the lines between insight and experiment are blurred." New in review, Athanassia Williamson on Timothy Bewes's Free Indirect, from @ColumbiaUP: https://t.co/mLSRr9GKWi https://t.co/XKiWdcPwaO
Paperback, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookSerial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848
Clare PettittCritical Inquiry"The master theorists Pettit treats are similarly brought down to earth; her signature theoretical intervention is the well-mannered qualification." New in the CI review, @DavidKurnick reviews Claire Pettitt's Serial Forms, from @OxUniPress: https://t.co/vAIHhq17nw https://t.co/d3QZsjcD0o
Paperback, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)
Daniel FairfaxCritical Inquiry"The Red Years carefully and convincingly argues that the Marxist Cahiers also maintained a commitment to Bazin and to realism more broadly." Sam Di Iorio reviews Daniel Fairfax's The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973), from @AmsterdamUPress: https://t.co/ueLdU1RQFx https://t.co/K7u0HPTsJz
Hardcover, 2021
$260.00$235.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics
Kevis GoodmanCritical Inquiry"The book’s welcoming overture to ecocriticism will provide an important point of entry for many of its readers." New in review, James Chandler on Kevis Goodman's Pathologies of Motion, from @yalepress: https://t.co/NdEEZpC8Cn https://t.co/wAjGyO5BKX
Hardcover, 2023
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book