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Steven J. Venturino

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Appreciating Form in Books and Movies

A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar This seminar offers a lively survey of some of the artistic techniques, styles, innovations, … More

film, film theory, form, literary criticism, literary theory

Essentials of Literary and Film Theory

A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar This seminar, scheduled for the winter/spring 2020 term, is now concluded. This seminar offers … More

film, film theory, literary criticism, literary theory

Literary Theory

“The Notorious Jumping Reader of Calaveras County: Twain, Blanchot, and a Dialectic of Storytelling.” The Midwest Quarterly 49.4 (2008): 374-87. “Drowning Martin Eden’s … More

Fredric Jameson, Henry Louis Gates, Jack London, literary theory, Mark Twain, Martin Eden, Susan Lanser, world literature

China/Tibet Studies

Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Writings Newly Posted: Review: Ballad of the Himalayas, by Ma Yuan. Translated by Herbert J. Batt. … More

Comparative Literature, literary theory, Tibetan Literature, Tibetan Studies

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

by Steven J. Venturino Alpha Books/Penguin/DK, 2013 Used in colleges and college-prep courses in the US, AS/A2 prep in the … More

literary criticism, literary theory

Derrida Signs a Baseball

Signature Event Jacques Derrida was delivering one of four Carpenter Lectures (probably the second) at the University of Chicago between … More

baseball, Jacques Derrida, literary theory

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