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literary-theory

February 16, 2011

SparkNotes: Goodnight Moon

by Sean Walsh
January 19, 2011

Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 6: Interlude: The Trauma of “The Dentist,” New Perspectives, and Something of a Manifesto of Cosby Studies

by James Fleming
January 3, 2011

Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 5: On “The Dentist,” The Satanic Agency of Dr. Burns, Dr. Burns as Postmodern Renaissance Man, Worshipping the Clinic and Rudy’s Hetero-Ontological Superconciousness, Part One

by James Fleming
December 6, 2010

Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 4: Viewing The Cosby Show Between (and Through) the Textual Gaps or Why is there Only One Television in the Huxtable Household?

by James Fleming
November 15, 2010

Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 3: Seven Ways of Theorizing Theo Huxtable

by James Fleming
October 27, 2010

Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 2: Cliff Huxtable and His Problems, or The Superb Otherness of Cliff Huxtable

by James Fleming
October 11, 2010

Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 1: Ontological Ruptures and Worlds Under Erasure: The Cosby Show as Postmodern Narrative

by James Fleming
August 13, 2010

List: New Criticism Literary Theory Book Title or Self-Aggrandizing Male Genital Nickname?

by Daniel Nester
July 1, 2010

List: Literary Theory Arts & Crafts

by Logan Scherer

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