https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/categories/literary-criticism/Recent content in Literary Criticism on MarginaliaHugoen-usSat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/moby-dick-as-yankee-self-aggrandizement-and-self-indictment/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/moby-dick-as-yankee-self-aggrandizement-and-self-indictment/Reads Moby-Dick as a double-action text that magnifies New England and American moral, intellectual, commercial, and political authority while building its own countercase through cosmopolitan labor, democratic federation, epistemic incompletion, anti-imperial property satire, and the destruction of Ahab’s command regime.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/grrm-deconstructed/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/grrm-deconstructed/Compares material realism in Westeros and Middle-earth using causal integration rather than encyclopedic detail. Martin foregrounds scarcity, logistics, rule, and war while leaving some civilization-wide consequences of multi-year seasons abstract; Tolkien foregrounds landscape, memory, stewardship, and ecological damage without offering a quantitative agronomic simulation.