Past Issues

53, 2 (2022)

Spring 2022

• Stephanie Ann Frampton, “Rhetorics of Becoming: Between Metamorphosis and Metaphor”
• Victoria Googasian, “Feeling Fictional: Climate Crisis and the Massively Multi-Protagonist Novel”
• Sara Fernandes and Lydia Saleh Rofail, “Perpetual Becoming, Deferred Arrival: The Author-Hero in the Age of Digital Celebrity”
• Jason de Stefano, “The Gospel of Creativity”
• Carolyn Dinshaw and Garth Greenwell, “Queer Theory/Queer Fiction” (Creative Writing and Critical Thought I)
• Doyle Calhoun, “Dead Narrators, Queer Terrorists: On Suicide Bombing and Literature”
  • Winner of the 2021 Ralph Cohen Prize

• Zhao F. Ng, “The Kingdom and the Pilgrim’s Way: Epic, Irony, and Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”

53, 1 (2022)

Winter 2022

• Hannah Weaver, “Interpolation as Critical Category”
• Adrienne Ghaly, “What Does Biodiversity Loss Feel Like? Realism in the Age of Extinction”
• Arthur Rose, “Recovering Franz Kafka’s Asbestos Factory”
• Cajetan Iheka, “Intricate Intimacies: Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our Names”
• Andrew M. McClellan, “Lil Wayne, Imitatio, and the Poetics of Cannibalism”
• Garrett Stewart, “Verbal Fframe-Advance: Toward a Cinematographic Sentence”
• Tobias Skiveren, “Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader”

52, 3/4 (2021)

Race and Periodization

• Urvashi Chakravarty and Ayanna Thompson, “Race and Periodization: Introduction”
• Margo Hendricks, “Coloring the Past, Considerations on Our Future: RaceB4Race”
• Mary Rambaran-Olm, “A Wrinkle in Medieval Time: Ironing out Issues Regarding Race, Temporality, and the Early English”
• Haruko Momma, “The Theater of Race and Its Supporting Actors: A Tale of Two Islands”
• Farid Azfar, “Leviathan and the Asiento: A Counter-History of the Racial Contract”
• Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, “Historiography, Periodization, and Race: Italy between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Europe and Africa”
• Nizar F. Hermes and Mary Beth Allen, “A Tale of Two Sultans: Franco-Moroccan ReInventions of Mūlāy Ismāʿīl and his Marriage Proposal to La Princesse de Conti”
• Su Fang Ng, “Making Race in the Early Modern East Indies”
• Wan-Chuan Kao, “In the Lap of Whiteness”
• Carol Meija LaPerle, “Ill-Will as Racialized Affect: Early Modern Volition, Critical Race Theory, and Shakespearean Ill-Will”
• Kyle Grady, “Emphasis and Elision: Early Modern English Approaches to Racial Mixing and their Afterlives”
• Ruben Espinosa, “Traversing the Temporal Borderlands of Shakespeare”

52, 2 (2021)

Spring 2021

• Audrey Wasser, “Critical Thinking”
• Christopher Braider, “Squaring the Circle: Aesthetics and Its History”
• Shaj Mathew, “Ekphrastic Temporality” (2020 Ralph Cohen Prize winner)
• Rachael Scarborough King, “The Scale of Genre”
• Wayne Stables, “What is the Matter? A Meditation on Illegible Writing”
• Helen Solterer, “A Timely Villon: Anachrony and Premodern Poetic Fiction”
• Avery Slater, “Primo Levi’s Chernobyl: Ecology and Trauma in The Reawakening”

52, 1 (2021)

Winter 2021

• Joel M. Childers, “The Romance of Criticism”
• Cecilia Feilla, “Future Perfect History: Historiography and Republican Space-Time in French Revolutionary Theater”
• David Kurnick, “Jane Austen, Secret Celebrity, and Mass Eroticism”
• John Lurz, “The Sorceress’s Apprentice: Roland Barthes and the Criticism of Magic”
• Rita Felski, “Recognizing Class”
• Ana Schwartz, “Anne Bradstreet, Arsonist?”
• Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould, “Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism”
• Eric Weiskott, “Futures Past: Prophecy, Periodization, and Reinhart Koselleck”

51, 4 (2020)

Animality/Posthumanism/Disability

Special issue edited by Michael Lundblad

• Michael Lundblad, “Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability: An Introduction”
• Sunaura Taylor, interviewed by Sara E. S. Orning, “Being Human, Being Animal: Species Membership in Extraordinary Times”
  • Judith Butler, “Companion Thinking: A Response”
• Rachel Adams, “The Art of Interspecies Care”
  • Jack Halberstam, “Beyond Caring: Human-Animal Interdependency: A Response”
  • Rachel Adams, “We Have Laws for That: A Response to Jack Halberstam”
• Matthew Chrulew, “Abnormal Animals”
  • Dinesh Wadiwel, “Restriction, Norm, Umwelt: A Response”
• Michael Lundblad, “Disanimality: Disability Studies and Animal Advocacy,”
  • Nirmala Erevelles, “The Political Economy of Disanimality: A Response”
• Jan Grue, “On the Transhumanist Imaginary and the Biopolitics of Contingent Embodiment”
  • David T. Mitchell, “Where Are You Taking Us? A Response”
• Cary Wolfe, “The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys”
• Neel Ahuja, “Animal Death as National Debility: Climate, Agriculture, and Syrian War Narrative”
  • Jasbir K. Puar, “Atmospherics of War: A Response”

51, 3 (2020)

Summer 2020

• Nan Z. Da, “Other People’s Books”
• Atti Viragh, “The Grammar of Instress: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Philosophers of Mind” (Winner, 2019 Ralph Cohen Prize)
• Joseph Albernaz, “Fragmentary Domestic: Wordsworth’s Image of the Common”
• Joshua Billings, “Nietzsche’s Philology of the Present”
• Brian Glavey, “Lyric Wilt, or, The Here and Now of Queer Impotentiality”
• John Hoffmann, “The Volk against Fascism: Socialist Realism and the Aesthetics of Expressionism”
• Walt Hunter, “The American Poetic Subprime: Contemporary Poetry, Race, and Genre”
• Brian Michael Norton, “Aesthetics, Science, and the Theater of the World”

51, 2 (2020)

The Global Novel

• Debjani Ganguly, “Introduction”
• Michael Allan, “Dying to Read: Reflections on the Ends of Literacy”
• Baidik Bhattacharya, “Radical Illegibility and Democratic Futures: Reading Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee”
• Rebecca L. Walkowitz, “On Not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro”
• Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, “The Persistence of the Transcultural: A Latin American Theory of the Novel from the National-Popular to the Global”
• Daniel Y. Kim, “Translations and Ghostings of History: The Novels of Han Kang”
• Ranjana Khanna, “Touching the Corpse: Reading Sinan Antoon”
• Debjani Ganguly, “Catastrophic Form and Planetary Realism”
• Sarah Nuttall, “Pluvial Time/Wet Form”

51, 1 (2020)

Winter 2020

• Heather Houser, “Shimmering Description and Descriptive Criticism”
• Linda M. Austin, “Psychometric Wunderkammern: Word-Association Testing and the Aesthetics of Creative Genius”
• Morgan Day Frank, “Don’t Read.”
• Michael Krimper, “Beckett Ongoing and the Novel”
• Elaine Auyoung, “What We Mean By Reading”
• Heather Steffen, “Imagining Academic Labor in the US University”
• Joshua Landy, “In Praise of Depth: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hidden”
• Michael Dango, “Filtering: A Theory and History of a Style”
• Michelle Karnes, “The Possibilities of Medieval Fiction”

Medieval Fictionalities: An NLH Forum

• Sarah M. Allen and Jack W. Chen, “Fictionality in Early and Medieval China”
• Carol Symes, “Medieval Fictions vs. the Fetish of Modernity”
• Carissa M. Harris, “Pastourelle Fictionalities”
• Sara S. Poor, “The Fuss about Fiction: A View from Medieval German Studies”
• Katharine Eisaman Maus, “Fake News”
• Brandon W. Hawk, “Apocrypha and Fictionality”
• Monika Fludernik, “Medieval Fictionality from a Narratological Perspective”
• Michelle Karnes, “Synchronous Fictions”
• Julie Orlemanski, “What We Ask of Fiction”

50, 4 (2019)

Poetry and Race

• Jahan Ramazani, “Poetry and Race: An Introduction”
• Evie Shockley, “On Seeing and Reading the ‘Nothing’: Poetry and Blackness Visualized”
  » ex patria
• Urayoán Noel, “The Queer, Migrant Poemics of #Latinx Instagram”
  » White Latinidad
  » Hay(na)ku Boricua
  » Transversal
• Josephine Nock-Hee Park, “The Poetics of Consolation: Japanese Aesthetics and American Incarceration”
• Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, “Theories of African Poetry”
• Tsitsi Jaji, “Zimbabwe in Verse: Anthologizing the Nation as Alternative Historiography”
  » baba’s voice mail.
• Vidyan Ravinthiran, “(Indian) Verse and the Question of Aesthetics”
  » My Sri Lankan family
  » And so
• J. Edward Chamberlin, “Chanting Down Babylon: Poetry and Race”
• Lorna Goodison
  » So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?
  » To Make Various Sorts of Black
  » Sugar
  » The Journey of the Three Dreads

50, 3 (2019)

In Brief

• Irina Dumitrescu and Bruce Holsinger, INTRODUCTION
• Sherif Abdelkarim, SĪRAH
• Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, PANEGYRIC
• Stephanie Burt, SONG
• Tim Cassedy, DEFINITION
• Jennifer Chang, FRAGMENT
• Brooke Conti, PRAYER
• Megan L. Cook, BLAZON
• Rita Copeland, ENTHYMEME
• Irina Dumitrescu, EPIGRAM
• Denis Ferhatović, RIDDLE
• Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright, FABULA
• Roberta Frank, DRÓTTKVÆTT
• Florian Fuchs, NOVELLA
• Diana Fuss, FLASH
• Cary Howie, MEDITATION
• Andrew Hui, APHORISM
• Andreas Huyssen, MINIATURE
• Eric Jarosinski, TWEET
• Seth Lerer, SCRIBBLE
• Nicola Masciandaro, GLOSS
• John H. Muse, MICRODRAMA
• Haun Saussy, JUEJU
• Jim Seitz, SYLLABUS
• Haruo Shirane, HAIKU
• Elizaveta Strakhov, RONDEAU
• Jesús R. Velasco, MICROBIOGRAPHIES
• Louise Wilson, DEDICATION
• Madeline L. Zehnder, COMPANION

50, 2 (2019)

Spring 2019

• Julie Orlemanski, “Who Has Fiction? Modernity, Fictionality, and the Middle Ages”
• Jerome McGann, “From Cultural Memory to Living Word: On Mather’s Magnalia”
• Ariana Reilly Codr, “After Ever After: The Marriage Plot’s Farewell to Its Reader”
• David Dwan, “Important Nonsense: Yeats and Symbolism”
• Matthew Burroughs Price, “Old Formalisms: Character, Structure, Action”
• Simone Stirner, “A Technique of Closeness, an Art of Straying: Reading with Walter Benjamin”
• Lucas Thompson, “Method Reading”

50, 1 (2019)

NLH at 50

• Bruce Holsinger, “New Literary History at 50: Reflections and Futures”
• Jeffrey J. Williams, “The Rise of the Critical Interview”
• Liesl Yamaguchi, “Sensuous Linguistics: On Saussure’s Synesthesia”
  Winner of the Ralph Cohen Prize for 2018
• Erica Weaver, “Premodern and Postcritical: Medieval Enigmata and the Hermeneutic Style”
• Ingrid Nelson, “Poetics of the Rule: Form, Biopolitics, Lyric”
• Michael North, “The Afterlife of Modernism”

– – – –

• Ralph Cohen (1917-2016), “On the Presuppositions of Literary Periods”
• John L. Rowlett, “Ralph Cohen on Literary Periods: Afterword as Foreword”

49, 4 (2018)

Romanticism, Now & Then

• Bruce Holsinger and Andrew Stauffer, “Introduction”
• Anahid Nersessian, “Romantic Difficulty”
• James Chandler, “The Question of Sensibility”
• Marlene L. Daut, “‘Nothing in Nature is Mute’: Reading Revolutionary Romanticism in L’Haïtiade and Hérard Dumesle’s Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti (1824)”
• Virginia Jackson, “‘Our Poets’: William Cullen Bryant and the White Romantic Lyric”
• Tristram Wolff, “Being Several: Reading Blake with Ed Roberson”
• Holly Watkins, “Romantic Musical Aesthetics and the Transmigration of Soul”
• Jerome McGann, “Romantic Subjects and Iambic Laws: Episodes in the Early History of Contract Negotiations”
• Cordula Grewe, “The Arabesque from Kant to Comics”

49, 3 (2018)

Summer 2018

• Brian McGrath, “Understating Poetry”
• Omri Moses, “Poetry and the Environmentally Extended Mind”
• Benjamin Mangrum, “Audre Lorde, Theodor Adorno, and the Administered Word”
• Brian Gingrich, “Pace and Epiphany”
• Tess McNulty, “Literary Ethics, Revisited: An Analytic Approach to the Reading Process”
• Laura Hughes, “In the Library of Jacques Derrida: Manuscript Materiality after the Archival Turn”
• Julian Hanich, “Great Expectations: Cinematic Adaptations and the Reader’s Disappointment”

49, 2 (2018)

On Kwame Anthony Appiah

• Jahan Ramazani, “Appiah’s Identities: An Introduction”
• Kwame Anthony Appiah and Homi Bhabha, “Cosmopolitanism and Convergence”
• Susan Stanford Friedman, “Cosmopolitanism, Religion, Diaspora: Kwame Anthony Appiah and Contemporary Muslim Women’s Writing”
• Werner Sollors, “Cosmopolitan Curiosity in an Open City: Notes on Reading Teju Cole by way of Kwame Anthony Appiah”

Appiah’s Keywords

• Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Tradition”
• yasser elhariry, “Temporality”
• Marie Ostby, “Cosmopolitanism”
• Adam Etinson, “Conversation”
• Robert Gooding-Williams, “‘Du Bois’ / ‘Race’”
• Ranjana Khanna, “Stranger”

49, 1 (2018)

Winter 2018

On Cavell

• Niklas Forsberg, “Carver, Cavell, and the Uncanniness of the Ordinary”
• Chiara Alfano, “Toward an Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis: On Skepticism and Infancy”
• Matthew Rubery, “Ulysses, Blindness, and Accessible Modernism”
• Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, “Trade Secrets: Poetry in the Teaching Machine”
• Wendy Veronica Xin, “Reading for the Plotter”
• Dennis Yi Tenen, “Toward a Computational Archaeology of Fictional Space”
• Ross Wilson, “The Hidden Seeds of Survival: Adorno and the Life of Art”

48, 4 (2017)

Writ Large

• Krishan Kumar and Herbert F. Tucker, “Introduction”
• Martin Jay, “‘Hey! What’s the Big Idea?’ Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History”
• Caroline Levine, “Model Thinking: Generalization, Political Form, and the Common Good”
• Ayesha Ramachandran, “How to Theorize the ‘World’: An Early Modern Manifesto”
• Chris Hann, “Making Sense of Eurasia: Reflections on Max Weber and Jack Goody”
• Lauren M. E. Goodlad, “Bigger Love”
• Rafael Alvarado and Paul Humphreys, “Big Data, Thick Mediation, and Representational Opacity”
• Mark Algee-Hewitt, “Distributed Character: Quantitative Models of the English Stage, 1550-1900”
• Darrin McMahon, “Afterword: Why Big, Why Now?”

48, 3 (2017)

Summer 2017

For Example

• Simon Goldhill, “The Limits of the Case Study: Exemplarity and the Reception of Classical Literature”
• Paul Fleming, “Tragedy, for Example: Distant Reading and Exemplary Reading (Moretti)”
• Eric Hayot, “What Happens to Literature if People Are Artworks?”
• Joshua Foa Dienstag, “The Example of History and the History of Examples in Political Theory”
• Nicholas Paige, “Examples, Samples, Signs: An Artifactual View of Fictionality in the French Novel, 1681-1830”
    

• Helen Small, “Speech Beyond Toleration: On Carlyle and Moral Controversialism Now”
• Baidik Bhattacharya, “Reading Rancière: Literature at the Limit of World Literature”
• Laura Zebuhr, “Sound Enchantment: The Case of Henry David Thoreau”

48, 2 (2017)

Spring 2017

Aesthetics Now

• Charles Shepherdson, “Aesthetic “Sense” in Kant and Nancy”
• Sam Rose, “The Fear of Aesthetics in Art and Literary Theory”
• Robert S. Lehman, “Formalism, Mere Form, and Judgment”
    

• John Michael, “Lyric History: Temporality, Rhetoric, and the Ethics of Poetry”
• Brian Boyd, “Does Austen Need Narrators? Does Anyone?”
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell, “Henry James’s Portrait-Envy”
• Sarah L. Townsend, “The Drama of Peripheralized Bildung: An Irish Genre Study”
• Sean Gaston, “Derrida and the Problem of History 1964-1965”
• Zachary Samalin, “Plumbing the Depths, Scouring the Surface: Henry Mayhew’s Scavenger Hermeneutics”

48, 1 (2017)

Winter 2017

Amateurs

• Saikat Majumdar, “The Critic as Amateur”
• Aarthi Vadde, “Amateur Creativity: Contemporary Literature and the Digital Publishing Scene”
• Frances Guerin, “The Ambiguity of Amateur Photography in Modern Warfare”
    
• Carolyn Abbate, “Overlooking the Ephemeral”
• Herbert F. Tucker, “After Magic: Modern Charm in History, Theory, and Practice”
• Christopher Catanese, “Refinement and Romantic Genre”
• Ulf Schulenberg, “Marxism, Pragmatism, and Narrative”
• Nicholas Carr, “Symbol and Allegory in Romantic History”

47, 4 (2016)

Autumn 2016

Style, Form, Formalism

• David James, “Critical Solace”
• Nicholas Gaskill, “The Close and the Concrete: Aesthetic Formalism in Context”
• Anastasia Eccles, “Formalism and Sentimentalism: Viktor Shklovsky and Laurence Sterne”
   
• Ben Highmore, “Taste as Feeling”
• Christopher Grobe, “On Book: The Performance of Reading”
• Bryony Randall, “A Day’s Time: The One-Day Novel and the Temporality of the Everyday”
• William Cook Miller, “Enlivened Generalities: Truism in Mill and Dewey”

47, 2-3 (2016)

Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour

Edited by Stephen Muecke and Rita Felski

• Rita Felski, “Introduction”
• Stephen Muecke, “An Ecology of Institutions: Recomposing the Humanities”
• Graham Harman, “Demodernizing the Humanities with Latour”
• Steven Connor, “Decomposing the Humanities”
• Antoine Hennion, “From ANT to Pragmatism: A Journey with Bruno Latour at the CSI”
• Yves Citton, “Fictional Attachments and Literary Weavings in the Anthropocene”
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith, “Anthropotheology: Latour Speaking Religiously”
• Michael Witmore, “Latour, the Digital Humanities, and the Divided Kingdom of Knowledge”
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Humanities in the Anthropocene: The Crisis of an Enduring Kantian Fable”
• Nigel Thrift, “The University of Life”
• Patrice Maniglier, “Art as Fiction: Can Latour’s Ontology of Art be Ratified by Art Lovers? (An Exercise in Anthropological Diplomacy)”
• Francis Halsall, “Actor-Network Aesthetics: The Conceptual Rhymes of Bruno Latour and Contemporary Art”
• Bruno Latour, “Life among Conceptual Characters”

47, 1 (2016)

Climate, Species, The Anthropocene

• Benjamin Morgan, “After the Arctic Sublime”
• Shital Pravinchandra, “One Species, Same Difference? Postcolonial Critique and the Concept of Life”
• Aaron R. Hanlon, “Margaret Cavendish’s Anthropocene Worlds”
   
• Richard Rorty, “Getting Rid of the Appearance-Reality Distinction”
• John Frow, “Reading with Guns: Institutions of Interpretation and District of Columbia v. Heller”
• Winfried Fluck, “Philosophical Premises in Literary and Cultural Theory: Narratives of Self-Alienation”
• Tania Modleski, “Remastering the Master: Hitchcock after Feminism”
• Daniel Yacavone, “Film and the Phenomenology of Art: Reappraising Merleau-Ponty on Cinema as Form, Medium, and Expression
• Marco Caracciolo, “Cognitive Literary Studies and the Status of Interpretation: An Attempt at Conceptual Mapping”

46, 4 (2015)

Song

Edited by Jahan Ramazani and Herbert F. Tucker

• Jahan Ramazani and Herbert F. Tucker, “Introduction”
• Lawrence Kramer, “Song as Paraphrase”
• Emma Dillon, “Unwriting Medieval Song”
• Joseph S. C. Lam, “Ci Songs from the Song Dynasty: A Ménage à Trois of Lyrics, Music, and Performance”
• Bonnie Gordon, “It’s Not About the Cut: The Castrato’s Instrumentalized Song”
• Elizabeth Helsinger, “Poem Into Song”
• Andrew Peart, “‘The Abstract Pathos of Song’: Carl Sandburg, John Lomax, and the Modernist Revival of Folksong”
• T. Austin Graham, “Songs of the Century”
• Charles O. Hartman, “Dylan’s Bridges”
• Catherine M. Appert, “To Make Song without Singing: Hip Hop and Popular Music in Senegal”
• Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, “TransAmericana: Gender, Genre, and Journey”
• Sangita Gopal, “The Audible Past, or What Remains of the Song-Sequence in New Bollywood Cinema”
• Eric Lott, “Songs Are Like Tattoos: A Response”

46, 3 (2015)

Beyond Bourdieu and Other Essays

• Georgina Born, “Making Time: Temporality, History, and the Cultural Object”
• Bernard Lahire, “Literature is Not Just a Battlefield”
• Caroline van Eck, “Works of Art That Refuse to Behave: Agency, Excess, and Material Presence in Canova and Manet”
• Richard Shusterman, “Pierre Bourdieu and Pragmatist Aesthetics: Between Practice and Experience”
   
• Jahan Ramazani, “Poetry and Tourism in a Global Age”
• Yohei Igarashi, “Statistical Analysis at the Birth of Close Reading”
• Scott Selisker, “The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks”
• W. Scott Blanchard, “Forms of Power, Forms of Life: Agamben’s Franciscan Turn”
• Alexander Freer, “Rhythm as Coping”

46, 2 (2015)

Feminist Investigations and Other Essays

• “Introduction”
• Toril Moi, “Thinking Through Examples: What Ordinary Language Philosophy Can Do for Feminist Theory”
• Sandra Laugier, “The Ethics of Care as a Politics of the Ordinary”
• Sarah Beckwith, “Are There any Women in Shakespeare’s Plays? Fiction, Representation, and Reality in Feminist Criticism”
• Linda M. G. Zerilli, “The Turn to Affect and the Problem of Judgment”
• Alice Crary, “Feminist Thought and Rational Authority: Getting Things in Perspective”

• Jonas Grethlein, “Aesthetic Experiences, Ancient and Modern”
• Robert J. Meyer-Lee, “Toward a Theory and Practice of Literary Valuing”

46, 1 (2015)

Winter 2015

Narrative as Remedy

• Adriana Cavarero, “Narrative against Destruction”
• Laura Bieger, “No Place Like Home; or Dwelling in Narrative”
   
• Bruno Latour, “Charles Péguy: Time, Space, and le Monde Moderne”
• Andrew Piper, “Novel Devotions: Conversional Reading, Computation Modeling, and the Modern Novel”
• Richard Kearney, “What is Carnal Hermeneutics?”
• James Ramsey Wallen, “What Is an Unfinished Work?”
• Jeremy Rosen, “An Insatiable Market for Minor Characters: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace”
• Brent Dawson, “Making Sense of the World: Allegory, Globalization, and The Faerie Queene”

45, 4 (2014)

Political Theory

• Davide Panagia, “A Theory of Aspects: Media Participation and Political Theory”
• George Shulman, “A Flight from the Real? American Literature and Political Theory”
• Georgia Warnke, “Hermeneutics and Social Identity”
• Sandra M. Gustafson, “Equality as Singularity: Rethinking Literature and Democracy”
• Peter Uwe Hohendahl, “The Specter of Power: Literature and the Political Revisited”
• Julia Reinhard Lupton, “Judging Forgiveness: Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, and The Winter’s Tale”
• Paul Jaussen, “Speaking and Making: Arendt, Stevens, and the Poetics of Public Discourse”
• Steve Light, “Pedagogical and Philosophico-Political Abdication: Agamben and Žižek”
• Jill Jarvis, “Remnants of Muslims: Reading Agamben’s Silence”

45, 3 (2014)

Summer 2014

• Pheng Cheah, “World against Globe: Toward a Normative Conception of World Literature”
• Ian Hunter, “Hayden White’s Philosophical History”
• Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood, “The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us”
• Astrid Erll, “Generation in Literary History: Three Constellations of Generationality, Genealogy, and Memory”
• Steven Goldsmith, “Almost Gone: Rembrandt and the Ends of Materialism”
• Linda Martín Alcoff, “Sexual Violations and the Question of Experience”
• Evan Horowitz, “Literary Invisibility”
• Barry Sheils, “Poetry in the Modern State: The Example of W.B. Yeats’s ‘Late Style’ and ‘New Fanaticism’”
• Rossen Ventzislavov, “Singing Nonsense”

45, 2 (2014)

Interpretation and Its Rivals

• David Scott, “The Temporality of Generations: Dialogue, Tradition, Criticism”
• Steven Connor, “Spelling Things Out”
• N. Katherine Hayles, “Cognition Everywhere: The Rise of the Cognitive Nonconscious and the Costs of Consciousness”
• T. J. Clark, “Poussin’s Sacrament of Marriage: An Interpretation”
• Susan Stewart, “On ED’s 754/764”
• Antoine Compagnon, “The Resistance to Interpretation”
• Zhang Longxi, “‘The Pale Cast of Thought’: On the Dilemma of Thinking and Action”

45, 1 (2014)

Winter 2014

Ecology, Agency, Entanglement

• Bruno Latour, “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene”
• Ian Hodder, “The Entanglements of Humans and Things: A Long-Term View”
• Graham Harman, “Entanglement and Relation: A Response to Bruno Latour and Ian Hodder”
   
• Dora Zhang, “Naming the Indescribable: Woolf, Russell, James, and the Limits of the Description”
• Günter Leypoldt, “Singularity and the Literary Market”
• Hanna Meretoja, “Narrative and Human Existence: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics”
• Joshua Gass, “Moll Flanders and the Bastard Birth of Realist Character”
• Ben Parker, “Recognition or Reification?: Capitalist Crisis and Subjectivity in Little Dorrit”

44, 4 (2013)

Use

• Rita Felski, Introduction
• Michael S. Roth, “Pragmatic Liberal Education”
• Helen Small, “Fully Accountable”
• Terry Eagleton, “Bodies, Artworks, and Use Values”
• Brian Boyd, “Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Uses”
• Elizabeth Fowler, “Art and Orientation”
• R. M. Berry, “Wittgenstein’s Use”
• Jim Collins, “The Use Values of Narrativity in Digital Cultures”
• Nancy Easterlin, “The Functions of Literature and the Evolution of Extended Mind”

44, 3 (2013)

Summer 2013

Styles of Criticism

• Michael Chaouli, “Criticism and Style”
• Andrew H. Miller, “Implicative Criticism, or The Display of Thinking”
• Timothy Yu, “Wittgenstein, Pedagogy, and Literary Criticism”
   
• Pascale Casanova, “What is Dominant Language? Giacomo Leopardi: Theoretician of Linguistic Inequality”
• Jerome McGann, “American Memory in Black Elk Speaks”
• J. E. Elliott, “The Social Structure of English in the Text of Theory”
• Thomas H. Ford, “Poetry’s Media”
• Cynthia Turner Camp, “Spatial Memory, Historiographic Fantasy, and the Touch of the Past in St. Erkenwald”
• Jesper Gulddal, “Narratives of Resentment: Notes towards a Literary History of European Anti-Americanism”

44, 2 (2013)

The French Issue: New Perspectives on Reading from France

• Philippe Roger, “Introduction: Five French Critics”
• Marielle Macé, “Ways of Reading, Modes of Being”
• Pierre Bayard, “Anticipatory Plagiarism”
• François Cusset, “Unthinkable Readers: The Political Blindspot of French Literature”
• Jean-Marie Schaeffer, “Literary Studies and Literary Experience”
• Yves Citton, “Reading Literature and the Political Ecology of Gestures in the Age of Semiocapitalism”
• Toril Moi, “Afterword: How the French Read”

44, 1 (2013)

Winter 2013

Recognition

• Nikolas Kompridis, “Recognition and Receptivity: Forms of Normative Response in the Lives of the Animals We Are”
• James Simpson, “Cognition is Recognition: Literary Knowledge and Textual ‘Face’”
• Winfried Fluck, “Reading for Recognition”
• Aleida Assmann, “Civilizing Societies:Recognition and Respect in a Global World”
   
• Jeffrey Knapp, “Mass Entertainment Before Mass Entertainment”
• Patrick Fessenbecker, “In Defense of Paraphrase”
• Joseph North, “What’s ‘New Critical’ about ‘Close Reading’? I. A. Richards and His New Critical Reception”
• Kuei-fen Chiu, “Cosmopolitanism and Indigenism: The Uses of Cultural Authenticity in an Age of Flows”
• James Lee, “Ethopoiesis: Foucault’s Late Ethics and the Sublime Body”

43, 4 (2012)

A New Europe?

• Rita Felski, “Introduction”
• Karl Heinz Bohrer, “‘Europe’ as Utopia: Causes of Its Decline”
• Ann Rigney, “Transforming Memory and the European Project”
• Chantal Mouffe, “An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe”
• Ulrich Beck, “The European Crisis in the Context of Cosmopolitization”
• Nilüfer Göle, “Decentering Europe, Recentering Islam”
• Michel Wieviorka, “A Critique of Europe”
• Thomas Elsaesser, “European Cinema and the Postheroic Narrative: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claire Denis and Beau Travail”
• Anca Parvulescu, “Old Europe, New Europe, Eastern Europe: Reflections on a Minor Character in Fassbinder’s Ali, Fear Eats the Soul”

43, 3 (2012)

In the Mood

• Rita Felski and Susan Fraiman, “Introduction”
• René Rosfort and Giovanni Stanghellini, “In the Mood for Thought: Feeling and Thinking in Philosophy”
• Lars Svendsen, “Moods and the Meaning of Philosophy”
• Richard Shusterman, “Thought in the Strenuous Mood: Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Feeling”
• Carl Plantinga, “Art Moods and Human Moods in Narrative Cinema”
• John Rhym, “Towards a Phenomenology of Cinematic Mood: Boredom and the Affect of Time in Antonioni’s L’eclisse”
• Jonathan Flatley, “How A Revolutionary Counter-Mood Is Made”
• Clare Hemmings, “In The Mood For Revolution: Emma Goldman’s Passion”
• Ellis Hanson, “The Languorous Critic”
• Jane Gallop, “Precocious Jouissance: Roland Barthes, Amatory Maladjustment, and Emotion”

43, 2 (2012)

Spring 2012

Object-Oriented Literary Criticism

• Graham Harman, “The Well Wrought Broken Hammer: Object Oriented Literary Criticism”
• Timothy Morton, “An Object-Oriented Defense of Poetry”
• Jane Bennett, “Systems and Things: A Response to Graham Harman and Timothy Morton”
   
• Nicholas Hengen Fox, “A Habermasian Literary Criticism”
• Diego Rossello, “Hobbes and the Wolf-Man: Melancholy and Animality in Modern Sovereignty”
• Sara Landreth, “Breaking the Laws of Motion: Pneumatology and Belles Lettres in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

The State of Postcolonial Studies Continued

• Bill Bell, “Signs Taken for Wonders: An Anecdote Taken from History”

Responses to Dipesh Chakrabarty and Robert JC Young

• Simon During, “Empire’s Present”
• Benita Parry, “What is Left in Postcolonial Studies?”
• Ato Quayson, “The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History”
• Robert Stam and Ella Shohat, “Whence and Whither Postcolonial Theory?”

43, 1 (2012)

Winter 2012

The State of Postcolonial Studies

• Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change”
• Robert JC Young, “Postcolonial Remains”
   
• Henry Staten, “The Origin of the Work of Art in Material Practice”
• Charles Altieri, “What Theory can Learn from New Directions in Contemporary American Poetry”
• Shoshana Benjamin, “On the Distinctiveness of Poetic Language”
• Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, “The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History for the Twenty-First Century”
• Sinéad Garrigan Mattar, “Yeats, Fairies, and the New Animism”
• Hannah Freed-Thall, “‘Prestige of a Momentary Diamond’: Economies of Distinction in Proust”

42, 4 (2011)

Context?

Edited by Rita Felski and Herbert F. Tucker

• Herbert F. Tucker, “Introduction”
• Martin Jay, “Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of
  Contextualization”
• Rita Felski, “‘Context Stinks!’”
• Bruce Holsinger, “‘Historical Context’ in Historical Context: Surface, Depth, and the Making of the Text”
• Jonathan Gil Harris, “Four Exoskeletons and No Funeral”
• Michael Bristol, “Macbeth the Philosopher: Rethinking Context”
• Michael Levenson, “Novelty, Modernity, Adjacency”
• Derek Attridge, “Context, Idioculture, Invention”
• Claire Colebrook, “The Context of Humanism”
• David Greetham, “Context and the ‘Impossibility’ Trope”
• Eric Hayot, “Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time”

42, 3 (2011)

Summer 2011

The State of American Studies

• Winfried Fluck, “A New Beginning? Transnationalisms”
• Robyn Wiegman, “The Ends of New Americanism”
• John Michael, “Transnational American Studies or, Tainted Love”
• Ingo Berensmeyer, “Cultural Ecology and Chinese Hamlets”
• Tzachi Zamir, “Talking Trees”
• Kendall Walton, “Thoughtwriting—in Poetry and Music”
• Zachary Sayre Schiffman, “Historicizing History/Contextualizing Context”
• Sean Gaston, “Derrida and the End of the World”
• Bernadette Guthrie, “Invoking Derrida: Authorship, Readership, and the Specter of Presence in Film and Print”
• Dries Vrijders “History, Poetry, and the Footnote: Cleanth Brooks and Kenneth Burke on Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’”

42, 2 (2011)

Character

Edited by Rita Felski

• Rita Felski, “Introduction”
• Amanda Anderson, “Character and Ideology: The Case of Cold War Liberalism”
• Sara Ahmed, “Willful Parts: Problem Characters or the Problem of Character”
• Julian Murphet, “The Mole and the Multiple: A Chiasmus of Character”
• Murray Smith, “On the Twofoldness of Character”
• Suzanne Keen, “Readers’ Temperaments and Fictional Character”
• Catherine Gallagher, “What Would Napoleon Do? Historical, Fictional, and Counterfactual Characters”
• Paisley Livingstone and Andrea Sauchelli, “Philosophical Perspectives on Fictional Characters”

42, 1 (2011)

Winter 2011

• Alan Liu, “Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing”
• Peter Uwe Hohendahl, “A Precarious Balance: Adorno and German Classicism”

Doing Without Art

• Steven Connor, “Doing Without Art”
• Ellen Dissanayake, “Doing Without the Ideology of Art”
• Charles Altieri, “Where Can Aesthetics Go?”

Cluster on Reading

• Paul B. Armstrong, “In Defense of Reading: Or, Why Reading Still Matters in a Contextualist Age”
• Peter Schwenger, “The Obbligato Effect”
• John Lurz, “Sleeping with Proust: Reading, Sensation and the Books of the Recherche”
   

• Hsuan L. Hsu, “Fatal Contiguities: Metonymy and Environmental Justice”
• Elizabeth Susan Anker, “Elizabeth Costello, Embodiment, and the Limits of Rights”
• Nicholas Robinette, “The World Laid Waste: Herder, Language-Labor, Empire”

 41, 4 (2010)

What Is an Avant-Garde?

• Jonathan P. Eburne and Rita Felski, “Introduction”
• Peter Bürger, “Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: An Attempt to Answer Certain Critics of Theory of the Avant-garde”
• John Roberts, “Revolutionary Pathos, Negation, and the Suspensive Avant-Garde”
• Elizabeth Harney, “Postcolonial Agitations: Avant-Gardism in Dakar and London”
• Mike Sell, “Resisting the Question, ‘What Is an Avant-Garde?’”
• Benjamin Lee, “Avant-Garde Poetry as Subcultural Practice: Mailer and Di Prima’s Hipsters”
• Griselda Pollock, “Moments and Temporalities of the Avant-Garde ‘in, of, and from the feminine’”
• Amy J. Elias, “Psychogeography, Détournement, Cyberspace”
• Philippe Sers, “The Radical Avant-Garde and the Contemporary Avant-Garde”
• Walter L. Adamson, “How Avant-Gardes End—and Begin: Italian Futurism in Historical Perspective”
• Bob Perelman, “My Avant-Garde Card”
• Richard Schechner, “The Conservative Avant-Garde”
• Martin Puchner, “It’s Not Over (’Til It’s Over)”

 41, 3 (2010)

Summer 2010

Edited by Rita Felski

• Bruno Latour, “An Attempt at a ‘Compositionist Manifesto’”
• Ian Hunter, “Scenes from the History of Poststructuralism: Davos, Freiburg, Baltimore, Leipzig”
• Robert Pippin, “Philosophical Film: Trapped by Oneself in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past”
• Krishan Kumar, “The Ends of Utopia”
• Shira Wolosky, “Relational Aesthetics and Feminist Poetics”
• Rupert Read, “Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a War Book”
• James Phillips, “Wordsworth and the Fraternity of Joy”
• Nergis Erturk, “Those Outside the Scene: Snow in the World Republic of Letters”
• Angus Fletcher and Michael Benveniste, “Defending Pluralism: The Chicago School and the Case of Tom Jones”
• Patrick Redding, “Whitman Unbound: Democracy and Poetic Form, 1912-1931”

41, 2 (2010)

New Sociologies of Literature

Edited by James English and Rita Felski

• James F. English, “Everywhere and Nowhere: The Sociology of Literature After ‘the Sociology of Literature’”
• John Frow, “On Midlevel Concepts”
• Tony Bennett, “Sociology, Aesthetics, Expertise”
• Timothy Brennan, “Running and Dodging: The Rhetoric of Doubleness in Contemporary Theory”
• David J. Alworth, “Supermarket Sociology”
• Mark McGurl, “Ordinary Doom: Literary Studies in the Waste Land of the Present”
• Shai M. Dromi and Eva Illouz, “Recovering Morality: Pragmatic Sociology and Literary Studies”
• Heather Love, “Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn”
• Elaine Freedgood, “Fictional Settlements: Footnotes, Metalepsis, the Colonial Effect”
• Ato Quayson, “Kòbòlò Poetics: Urban Transcripts and their Reading Publics in Africa”
• Michèle Richman, “Bernard Lahire and ‘The Double Life of Writers’”
• Bernard Lahire, “The Double Life of Writers”

41, 1 (2010)

Winter 2010

Edited by Rita Felski

• Rita Felski, Editorial Statement
• Bonnie Honig, “Antigone’s Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism”
• Karl Heinz Bohrer “The Tragic: A Question of Art, not Philosophy of History”
• Joseph Carroll, “Three Scenarios for Literary Darwinism”
• Richard Shusterman, “Pragmatism and Cultural Politics: From Rortian Textualism to Somaesthetics”
• Kristin Ross, “Parisian Noir”
• Evan Horowitz, “London: Capital of the Nineteenth Century”
• Tzachi Zamir, “The Theatricalization of Love”
• Christopher Peterson, “The Aping Apes of Poe and Wright: Race, Animality, and Mimicry in ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and Native Son”
• T. Austin Graham, “The Slaveries of Sex, Race, and Mind: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Lady Byron Vindicated”
• Elizabeth Freudenthal, “Anti-Interiority: Compulsivness, Objectification, and Identity in Infinite Jest”
• Teckyoung Kwon, “The Materiality of Remembering: Freud’s Wolf Man and the Biological Dimensions of Memory

40, 4 (2009)

Tribute to Ralph Cohen

Edited by Rita Felski and Herbert F. Tucker

• Rita Felski and Herbert F. Tucker, Introduction
• John T. Casteen III, Ralph Cohen and New Literary History
• Jeffrey L. Williams, The Rise of the Theory Journal
• Jonathan Arac, Reckoning with New Literary History
• David Bleich, New Academic History
• Clifford Siskin, Re-mediating Ralph
• Gordon Hutner, The Lessons of the Editor
• Wang Ning, Ralph Cohen, New Literary History, and Literary Studies in China
• Hélène Cixous, Tribute to Ralph Cohen
• Alastair Fowler, The Title Justified
• Martha Nussbaum, Ralph Cohen and the Dialogue between Philosophy and Literature
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, New Literary History: Pages from a Memoir
• Brian Stock, Reflections on Ancient Narrative and Ethics
• Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, From a Close Distance: Ralph Cohen’s Presence
• Mary Poovey, Memories of Ralph Cohen, Generic and Otherwise
• Toril Moi, “They practice their trades in different worlds”: Concepts in Poststructuralism and Ordinary Language Philosophy
• Jerome McGann, Literary History and Editorial Method: Poe and Antebellum America
• Gary Saul Morson, Return to Process: The Unfolding of The Idiot
• Hayden White, Reflections on “Gendre” in the Discourses of History
• Jonathan Culler, Lyric, History, and Genre
• Frances Ferguson, Ralph Cohen: Analyst of the Literary Field
• John L. Rowlett, A Guide to Receiving Ralph Cohen
• Jeffrey L. Williams, History and Change: An Interview with Ralph Cohen

40, 3 (2009)

Comparison

• Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman, Introduction
• R. Radhakrishnan, Why Compare?
• Robert Stam and Ella Shohat, Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-
  Cultural Analogy
• Ania Loomba, Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique
• Pheng Cheah, The Material World of Comparison
• Bruce Robbins, Chomsky’s Golden Rule: Comparison and Cosmopolitanism
• Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Comparison Literature
• Mary N. Layoun, Endings and Beginnings: Reimagining the Tasks and Spaces of Comparison
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rethinking Comparativism
• Richard Handler, The Uses of Incommensurability in Anthropology
• Caroline B. Brettell, Anthropology, Migration, and Comparative Consciousness

40, 2 (2009)

India and the West

Edited by Ralph Cohen and R. S. Khare

• R. S. Khare, Changing India-West Cultural Dialectics
• Jonardon Ganeri, Intellectual India: Reason, Identity, Dissent
• Sanjay Krishnan, The Place of India in Postcolonial Studies: Chatterjee, Chakrabarty, Spivak
• Vinay Lal, Gandhi’s West, the West’s Gandhi
• Sudesh Mishra, News from the Crypt: India, Modernity, and the West
• Arun P. Mukherjee, B. R. Ambedkar, John Dewey, and the Meaning of Democracy
• Vyjayanthi Rao, Embracing Urbanism: The City as Archive
• Vijay Mishra, Rushdie-Wushdie: Salman Rushdie’s Hobson-Jobson
• Faisal Devji, The Mutiny to Come
• Martha Nussbaum, Commentary