Raquel Chang-Rodríguez is distinguished professor of Hispanic literature and culture at the Graduate Center and the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she codirects the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa. She is co-editor with Carlos Riobó of Talking … Continue reading From the Desk of Raquel Chang-Rodríguez: Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa
Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. His new book Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (Nebraska, 2024) was published in October. Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s … Continue reading Excerpt: Swallowing a World
Sharonah Esther Fredrick teaches in the College of Charleston’s Department of Hispanic Studies. She is the Colonial Americas editor for Routledge Resources Online—The Renaissance World. Her newest book An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the … Continue reading From the Desk of Sharonah E. Fredrick: An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
Torsa Ghosal is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative. Alison Gibbons is a reader in contemporary stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
Robert Darcy is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England (Nebraska, 2021). My book talks about why Renaissance literature was interested in … Continue reading From the Desk of Robert Darcy: A Look at Misanthropy in Renaissance Literature
The following has been excerpted from The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention by David Letzler (June 2017). Introduction: Information and Attention in the Mega-Novel The Agony and Ecstasy of Big Books Why do we respond so strangely … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Cruft of Fiction
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