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Empathy After 9/11

In his book, Empathy and Moral Development, the psychologist Martin Hoffman defines empathic response as ‘the involvement of…

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Shakespeare and Lady Gaga

Sarah Olive June 1, 2012 5 Comments critical theory Early Modern Drama Lady Gaga multimodal texts popular culture reader response theory sexual stereotypes Shakespeare

Revelling in Bad Romances; music video murders by poisonous catering and flame-throwing bras; elaborate (dis)guises involving raw meat…

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On Literary Darwinism

Michael J. Collins June 1, 2012 5 Comments Brian Boyd Catherine Salmon cultural anthropology Darwinist literary criticism David Sloan Wilson E. O. Wilson evolution evolutionary psychology fiction human nature criticism Jonathan Gottschall literary Darwinism Steven Pinker

As I inform my students exhaustedly year on year, cultural criticism is concerned with asking crucial questions about the world…

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Alternative Fictioneers

Mark P. Williams June 1, 2012 4 Comments AK Distribution Alan Moore alternative publishing avant-gardism CodeX Creation Press Decadent Surrealism drum n bass experimental British fiction globalisation Grant Morrison Headpress hip hop Mark Waugh New Wave pop culture Pulp Fiction punk science fiction small presses Spare Change Books Stewart Home surrealism

Outside of academic postmodernism, around the edges of genre fiction, and beyond the purview of the mainstream literary novel…

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Editors’ Introduction: Issue 1.1

Caroline Edwards June 1, 2012 2 Comments Alluvium contemporary literature Editor's Introduction literary criticism scholarship theoretical approaches theory twenty-first-century literature

Welcome to the launch issue of Alluvium, a new online journal of literary criticism that is dedicated to 21st-century writing as well as 21st-century approaches…