By Daneen Bergland & Wendy Bourgeois
A conversation about poetry, philosophy, the role of autobiography in criticism, and Wendy Bourgeois’s essay collection, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It.
All tagged Criticism
In Praise of Ordinary Art
By Matt Hartman
If the essential challenge of criticism is to get others to see what you see in an object, the challenge today is to resist the critical landscape that shapes how we approach art in the first place.
Bourgeois Shares "Devil" Talk on The Steer
On The Steer podcast, Wendy Bourgeois talks with Sunny Bleckinger about marrying criticism and the personal essay.
We Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is Television
By Tevis Eurythmic
Cinema hates television. In The Theory of the Novel, Georg Lukacs posits that there are true novels and fake novels—books labeled “a novel” that are really just narratives created to move mass units of recycled stereotypes and tired tropes. Visual depictions of small screens inside cinematic worlds in the 1970s and 1980s suggest cinema felt the same about television: that the “idiot box” is a fraudulent, socially corrosive form of visual storytelling—a cheap, fake version of cinema.
The Devil Says Maybe at Happy House
Wendy Bourgeois and Matthew Robinson read at Happy House.