Critical Inquiry is excited to present our Throwback Tuesday and Flashback Friday series. Each Tuesday and Friday, a new essay from the Critical Inquiry archive will open temporarily for all to read and enjoy. Stay tuned and follow us on social media for announcements about when each essay opens.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Marriage and Contemporary Fiction
W. V. Quine, On the Nature of Moral Values
Jacques Derrida, The Law of Genre
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Draupadi" by Mahasveta Devi
Edward W. Said, Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Podsnappery, Sexuality, and the English Novel
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Experiments in Philosophic Genre: Descartes' Meditations
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The "Blackness of Blackness": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey
Lawrence Lipking, Aristotle's Sister: A Poetics of Abandonment
Christine Froula, When Eve Reads Milton: Undoing the Canonical Economy
Joyce Carol Oats, Artists on Art: Frankenstein's Fallen Angel by Joyce Carol Oates
Anthony Newcomb, Sound and Feeling
Richard Rorty, Deconstruction and Circumvention
Jaques Derrida, Racism's Last Word
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne, and Male Homosocial Desire
Zhang Longxi, The Tao and the Logos: Notes on Derrida's Critique of Logocentrism
Stanley Cavell, The Division of Talent
Elizabeth Helsinger, Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet
Leo Bersani, "The Culture of Redemption": Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein
Susan Gubar, Representing Pornography: Feminism, Criticism, and Depictions of Female Violation