Walter Benn Michaels (born 1948) is an American literary theorist and author whose areas of research include American literature (particularly 19th-century to 20th-century), critical theory, identity politics, and visual arts. [1 ]
THE World Without US WalterBENN Michaels Walter Benn Michaels is Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Michaels's work has generated a set of arguments and questions around a host of issues that are central to literary…
My proposal, then, is that we interpret artworks in the light of intention, that magic feature that turns cardboard into a box, A Modest Proposal into something cunning, and a bag of trash into part of an installation.