Recommended Citation: Pavel, Laura, Deliu, Ana-Maria and Paul Mihai Paraschiv. “What is Post-Criticism? Reconstructive Interpretive Strategies”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.01.

Abstract: This introductory article examines the transition from conventional criticism to post-critical methodologies in literary and cultural studies. It discusses Bruno Latour's compositionist approach for cultural preservation...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: “Toward a Nonhuman Narratology: Material Metaphors in Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has Been”, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.02.

Abstract: This paper examines the convergence of affect theory and cognitive narratology. I investigate the methodological potential of a cognitive narratology informed by affect as found in the (autonomous) intensities and resonances that circulate about and...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Sy, Ousseynou. “Writing Fiction through the Camera Lens: Toni Morrison’s Intermedial Poetics.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.03.

Abstract: This paper analyzes the intermedial discourse in Morrison’s novel Beloved. It brings to the fore the cinematic tropes with which Morrison’s “politics of affect”, to borrow from Massumi’s syntagm, is interwoven. Drawing on Müller’s concept of...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Purdea, Andra. “Transformative Perspectives: A Post-Critical View. Unraveling ORLAN’s Vision of Augmented Reality, Posthumanism, Body Art, and Feminism.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.04.

Abstract: This article delves into the daring practices of the French artist ORLAN, investigating her visionary approach through the lens of a post-critical perspective. We explore the dynamic...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Șargan, Daiana. “Encyclopedia of Relations: Observing through Embodiment and Movement Research.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.05.

Abstract: The present paper proposes a (post- and) eco-critical reading of Alexandra Pirici’s ongoing action, Encyclopedia of Relations, staged at the Venice Biennale in 2022. While it addresses a considerable gap within Romanian performance art studies,...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Ciorogar, Alex. “Beyond the Death of the Author. Authorial Regimes and Ecologies in the Age of Digital Globalization.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.06.

Abstract: In recent times, scholars have been working under the assumption that authorship and authorial studies have both reached a theoretical end point. What is clear, though, is that we are no longer inhabiting the same literary...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Ray, Ranit and Samrat Sengupta. “Understanding the Disaster Unconscious: The Marichjhapi Massacre Depicting Precarious Lives and Vulnerable Ecologies in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tde”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.07.

Abstract: The paper situates the massacre of Dalit refugees of Marichjhapi Island (1978-79) in West Bengal, India through a multidisciplinary reading of Amitav Ghosh’s...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Clinci, Daniel. “Crossing Paths: The Case for an Eco-Critical Posthumanism”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.08.

Abstract: In this paper, as a response to some of the recent attempts to promote a “post-critical” approach to the humanities, I propose an eco-critical posthumanism as a research program that analyzes the historical nexus between humanism and capitalism, thus attempting to...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Recommended citation: Deliu, Ana-Maria. “State of the Art: Literary Studies in the Anthropocene”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.09.

Abstract: Literary studies are well acquainted with the worlding powers of storytelling. Worlding is the generative process that is transformative enough to integrate the dysfunctionalities of the present and imagine what futures might still be possible...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Fregara, Noemi. “Ecological, Feminist, and Monstruous Trends Against Women and Nature’s Oppression in Olga Tokarczuk’s Works”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.10.

Abstract: In the last twenty years, the publication of original novels broadly categorized as “ecofiction” signals the emergence of a new sensibility in many cultures. The fil rouge running through these catastrophic scenarios...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Chirteș, Denisa Artemisa. “Two Samples of Queer Ecology in Romanian Contemporary Literature. From Silenced Witness to Redeemer.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023), 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.11.

Abstract: This paper will analyse the intersection between two components (queer and ecological) by reviewing two texts, both describing themselves as “ecological queer,” therefore, settling a new paradigm in Romanian...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Bordeleau, Erik. “Anonymity, Peace and Speculative Presence in Isabelle Stengers’ Cosmopolitical Thinking”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.12.

Abstract: How does speculative pragmatism induce new ways to think, feel, imagine and act? Take Isabelle Stengers’ cosmopolitical proposal. It involves two different concepts of peace: first, the “diplomats’ peace”, which is the always precarious,...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Medaglia, Francesca. “Ergodic Literature as Representative of Metamodern Fiction”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 9.2 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.16.13.

Abstract: This essay aims to investigate two ergodic novels as a representation of literature after postmodernism. More specifically, it will address non-linear novels, extending beyond the boundaries of the text and becoming highly complex, as representative of a new...   ⇨ Read more

Review by Ana ȚĂRANU
Babeș-Bolyai University and University of Warwick
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
ana.taranu@ubbcluj.ro; ana-maria.taranu@warwick.ac.uk

Review by Bogdan VIȘAN
Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University
Iași, Romania
visan0bogdan@gmail.com