Reviews for Dark Twins

The average rating for Dark Twins based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-19 00:00:00 Devontez Carolina In which Joan Acocella criticizes Cather critics for projecting their own biases and agendas onto Cather's novels... by projecting her own bias and agenda onto their criticism. Let me tell you, I am all about interrogating critical methodologies and conventional wisdom and the ivory tower party line. I am preparing to write a dissertation that asks a lot of the same questions Acocella does about how we fold authors and books into queer and feminist canons. But holy jeez. This book is bananas. At one point, Acocella argues that if Cather were a repressed lesbian, she would have hidden her lesbianism better. I'm halfway done--and I read the first half in one sitting. We'll see if things change in the second.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-07-08 00:00:00 John Resto Very rarely have I given a book five stars. This engaging and efficient (94 pages, minus footnotes) production deserves it. Within the first page, Acocella quickly changed my reticence about groping for meaning from literary critics into a determined and engrossing discovery about the world(s) of literary criticism, while learning more about Cather as a person and an author - and painlessly. I closed the book feeling enlightened and convinced to read a more of Cather's work ane to keep an eye out for more of Acocella's points of view. So glad I spent all of a few days relishing every chapter.