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Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn
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This article is published in New Literary History.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 284 citations till now.read more
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The New York Review of Books
TL;DR: The New York Review ofBooks as mentioned in this paper is now over twenty years old and it has attracted controversy since its inception, but it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history, especially an admittedly impressionistic survey, must give some attention.
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Professing Literature: An Institutional History.
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Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text.
TL;DR: In this paper, Comparative American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of "New World" cultural identities, questions and problems, and attempts to locate "America" as a cultural and historical site of plurality and division.
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the difficulty of being an ANT and the difficulties of tracing the social networks of a social network and how to re-trace the social network.
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Marxism and literature
TL;DR: In this paper, Williams extended the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis by outlining a theory of "cultural materialism" which integrates Marxist theories of language with literature.
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Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
TL;DR: The critical spirit of the humanities has run out of steam as discussed by the authors and the critical spirit might not be aiming at the right target, which is a concern of ours as a whole.
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Notes on the theory of the actor-network: ordering, strategy and heterogeneity.
TL;DR: The actor-network theory as discussed by the authors is a body of theoretical and empirical writing which treats social relations, including power and organization, as network effects and argues that society and organization would not exist if they were simply social.