Bennington College

Cultural Studies and Languages

Cultural Studies and Languages

 

Recent Submissions

  • Reviews of Books 
    Harris, Sarah D. (2021)
    Book review of ‘Las crónicas de Oselito’ en ‘Frente Sur’, ‘Frente Extremeño’ y ‘Frente Rojo’. Edición crítica de Rafael Alarcón Sierra. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar. 2018. 238 pp.
  • The Skin I Live In: Hunger, Power, and the Monstrous Feminine 
    Harris, Sarah D. (Monsters and the Monstrous. Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-84888-405-2., 2016)
    In his first film to premiere outside of his native Spain, international superstar director Pedro Almodóvar tackles the horror genre for the first time. The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) maintains a certain consistency ...
  • The Monster Within and Without: Spanish Comics, Monstrosity, Religion, and Alterity 
    Harris, Sarah D. (Routledge, 2015)
    Stereotyping based on ethnic and racial difference has also led to a practice whereby artists represent, and viewers understand, the “Other” as monstrous in comics and cartoons. Building on the idea that comics rely on ...
  • Quick Fixes 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2006)
    Book review of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs, by Marcus Boon. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. 339 pp.
  • Slogans and Attitudes 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2009)
    Book review of The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia by Christine Berberich. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 218 pp.
  • Late and Getting Later 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2007)
    Book review of "Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Other Late Novels," by Bernard Schweizer. A Companion to the British and Irish Novel: 1945-2000. Ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 608 pp.
  • Other Peoples' Dyschronia 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2008)
    Book review of Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel, by John J. Su. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 226 pp.
  • Homely Thoughts 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2009)
    Book review of Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day, by Patrick Parrinder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 502 pp.
  • Brideshead Remodernized 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2003)
  • The World is Always Too Much 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2004)
    Book review of Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, by George McCartney. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003. 211 pp.
  • Déjà-Vu All Over Again 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2005)
    Book review of Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s by Bernard Schweizer. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia, 2001. 216 pp.
  • Two Stories 
    Pitcher, Jonathan; Freire, Marcelino (2014-04)
    Jonathan Pitcher's translation of two stories, "About Peace" and "Armed Struggle", by Marcelino Freire.
  • Et in Arcadia Non Ego 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2004)
    A book review of Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Biography, 1924-1966, by John Howard Wilson. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2001. 198 pp.
  • Emollient Schisms 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2012)
    Book review of Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature by Paul Giles. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
  • Nostalgia for Novelty 
    Pitcher, Jonathan (The Evelyn Waugh Society, 2013)
    Book review of The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction, by Stephen Kern. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. 253 pp.
  • The Art of Making Do in Naples by Jason Pine 
    Alfano, Barbara (University of Rhode Island, 2014)
    A book review of The Art of Making Do in Naples by Jason Pine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2012.
  • The Transatlantic Gaze. Italian Cinema, American Film, 
    Alfano, Barbara (Routledge, 2015-02-18)
    A book review of The Transatlantic Gaze. Italian Cinema, American Film by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2014
  • L'(in)efficacia dell'amore in Non ti muovere di Margaret Mazzantini 
    Alfano, Barbara (SAGE State University of New York at Stony Brook, Center for Italian Studies, 2015-05)
    Questo saggio si occupa del significato dell’amore passionale nel romanzo di Margaret Mazzantini Non ti muovere (2001). Narratore e protagonista della storia è Timoteo, chirurgo di successo, sposato con Elsa, la cui figlia ...
  • The Painting on the Wall 
    Alfano, Barbara (MDPI, 2016-01-22)
    This personal essay describes what influenced my development as a creative writer, in my childhood and adolescence. It delineates the effect on my imagination of family story-telling and of images--paintings and prints. I ...