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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