Jordan Brower is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System (Cambridge, 2024).
Email: Jordan.Brower@uky.edu
Twitter: @jordanrbrower
Dear Sarah, I’m in the foothills of holiday territory as I write this, so forgive (or at least understand) this opening bout of sentimentality. However, there’s a formal point here, if not a critical one, so I take some comfort in the fact that this is periphrasis with a purpose.