Past Issues: Volumes 49 and Earlier

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