Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an ......
Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy - called deconstruction - changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously ......
Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns ......
The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is perfect for anyone undertaking a reading of Joyce's novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list.
In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our centuryboth in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand itwe can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she ......
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic contentwhich White dubs the ""metahistorical ......
In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the humanities encourage critical thinking, the humanities offer a counterweight to the cold calculations of the natural and social sciences. The essays in Latour and the Humanities take a different approach. Exploring ......
Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of ''The Red Mask of Death,'' ''The Black Cat,'' and ''The Murders of the Rue Morgue,'' Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. ''The Raven'' and ''The Tell-Tale Heart'' have been read as signs of his ......
On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive introduction-display a variety of styles and cover a vast array of topics. The collection revolves around two strikingly different essays. ......
