Aaron Jaffe

Bio

Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of American Literature at FSU. He has published extensively on modern and contemporary literature and cultural theory, including Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity, The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism, and the forthcoming book Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide.

Contributions

Introduction: Who’s Afraid of the Inhuman Woolf?

Peer Reviewed

From the Print Journal

© 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press “‘More than anything, artists are men [sic] who want to become inhuman.’” —Apollinaire [1] Affordances It runs like this: First, a film has to contain two female characters; second, they have to talk to one other; third: they have to talk about something besides a man. Who today hasn’t heard of the Bechdel test? Having gone viral, it increasingly serves as a litmus test in class discussion for marking outsized gender bias in texts. The test provides a handy...

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