LITERARY AND

CULTURAL STUDIES
2017

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 H I G HL I G H TS IN L ITE R A RY AND CULTURAL STUDI ES
The Muses on Their Lunch Hour
MARJORIE GARBER
“In this wonderful collection of what she modestly calls
‘musings,’ Marjorie Garber makes an irresistible case for the
value of literary study and for herself as one of its great mod-
ern practitioners. The essays are brave in their commitments
and brilliant in their execution. They are at once provocative
and playful—and abidingly humane.”—David Scott Kastan,
Yale University
“Marjorie Garber assembles witty, shrewd, and imaginative
essays on interdisciplinary topics that range widely from
Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher
education today.”—Publishers Weekly
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A Scarlet Pansy
ROBERT SCULLY
Edited by Robert J. Corber
“A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet
Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ul-
timately—through the lens of our queer world today—very
moving. Robert J. Corber’s insightful and astute Introduction
places the novel in a clear historical context while continu-
ally highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of
the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay
Etrange.”—Michael Bronski, Harvard University
“A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in
the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure
to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with
the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and
sex.”—Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida
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Out of the Ordinary
A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
MICHAEL DILLON/LOBZANG JIVAKA
Edited by Jacob Lau, and Cameron Partridge
Foreword by Susan Stryker
“While so much of the history of transsexualism has circu-
lated around and through a few highly publicized lives of
trans women, Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge have made
an indelible contribution to the modern histories of gender
and sexuality by publishing this autobiography. Their intro-
duction carefully situates the history of one of the earliest
female to male transitions and gives us a smart and sympa-
thetic account of the political, social and material complexi-
ties of Dillon/Jivaka’s life. This is an astonishing story.”—Jack
Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity and In a Queer
Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
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Blackpentecostal Breath
The Aesthetics of Possibility
ASHON T. CRAWLEY
“Blackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality an-
chored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination,
and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty.”—Ann
Pellegrini, coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and
the Limits of Religious Tolerance
“A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious,
black and cultural studies.”—Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberra-
tions in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
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The Hawthorn Archive
Letters from the Utopian Margins
AVERY F. GORDON
The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree,
has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-
American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism,
and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library
or a research collection in the conventional sense, but rather
a disorganized and fugitive space for the development of a
political consciousness of being in-difference to the deadly
forms of power that characterize our society. Housed by the
Archive are autonomous radicals, runaways, abolitionists,
commoners and dreamers who no longer live as obedient
subjects.
In this innovative, genre- and format-bending publication,
Avery F. Gordon, the “keeper” of the Archive, presents a
selection of its documents—original and compelling essays,
letters, cultural analyses, images, photographs, conversa-
tions, and collaborations with various artists.
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Fueling Culture
101 Words for Energy and Environment
Edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia
Yaeger
“This is a bold, ambitious, and thought-provoking collec-
tion. Fueling Culture presents multiple ports of embarkation,
geopolitical sites, archives, substances, genres, and method-
ologies for making sense of how deeply energy and culture
are intermeshed.”—Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas at
Arlington
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Sexagon
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National
Culture
MEHAMMED AMADEUS MACK
In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues
of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine
Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes
liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexual-
ity altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation,
and sexuality, Sexagon studies the broad politicization of
Franco-Arab identity in the context of French culture and its
assumptions about appropriate modes of sexual and gender
expression, both gay and straight.
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Celebricities
Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget
Commodity Life
ANTHONY CURTIS ADLER
“In Celebricities, Anthony Curtis Adler gives us Heidegger
watching TV, Marx playing with his cell phone, and Al-
thusser contemplating celebrity. Thinking the popular with
the philosophical gives us new and dynamic understandings
of the commodity form, ontology, and ideology as well as
aphorisms for some of the most pressing political questions
of our age.”—Christopher Breu, author of Insistence of the
Material Literature in the Age of Biopolitics
264 PAGES
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Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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 PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY
JEAN-LUC NANCY
The Banality of Heidegger
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Translated by Jeff Fort
“A relentlessly powerful probe, masterfully cast, soundly
translated. Rezoning Arendt’s sense of banality, the work
commits itself to handling the disturbingly blithe crude-
ness of anti-Semitism in philosophical headquarters. One
of the greatest philosophers of our time, Jean-Luc Nancy
tracks Heidegger’s descent, addressing the scandalous in-
compatibility of racist outburst and the question of Being.
Covering a range of assault from the euphemization and
derealization of anti-Semitic stances to the tragic conse-
quences of juridical logic, Nancy goes after a traumati-
cally enduring record of human/inhuman failure.”—Avital
Ronell, New York University
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The Possibility of a World
Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin
JEAN-LUC NANCY AND
PIERRE-PHILIPPE JANDIN
Translated by Travis Holloway and Flor Méchain
“The Possibility of a World presents Jean-Luc Nancy in
dialogue, allowing unique access to his thought. The book
is particularly concerned with the possibility of inhabiting
the world--a world that has become an object of calculation
and mastery. For Nancy, such a habitus entails an ethos,
or an ‘ethics of the world’ that involves the re-creation
of the world. In the context of his thinking of such an
ethical habitus, Nancy continues, throughout the book,
his inventive engagement with Heidegger’s thought as well
as his ongoing debate with Derrida. This new book is an
important contribution to Nancy’s rethinking of the world
and sense.”—David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State
University
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The Disavowed Community
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Translated by Philip Armstrong
“This is a powerful and important book, in several respects:
first, because this is Nancy’s first public engagement with
Maurice Blanchot’s 1983 book The Unavowable Commu-
nity, bringing to focus decades of research on this issue and
shedding exciting new light on the relation between the
two thinkers. Second, this work provides the latest elabora-
tions by Jean-Luc Nancy on what has been his longstanding
research on being-with and community, issues that have
occupied him for the past thirty years. Finally, the analyses
proposed are some of the most sophisticated that one can
find in Nancy’s corpus. As such, they represent a significant
contribution to philosophical work and research.”—Fran-
çois Raffoul, Louisiana State University
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Coming
JEAN-LUC NANCY WITH ADÈLE VAN REETH
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French no-
tion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from refer-
ring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (proper-
ty, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to
dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation?
“A stimulating analysis, Nancy’s Coming shows sex and
sexuality to be crucial understanding central aspects of his
work. Moving from the prurient to the profound, Coming
is a scintillating read for anyone interested in the limits of
desire, the loneliness that pervades much of contemporary
culture, or what love means today.”—Peter Gratton, Memo-
rial University of Newfoundland
152 PAGES
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 PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY
Public Things
Democracy in Disrepair
BONNIE HONIG
“A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public
things in democratic politics, especially against the back-
ground of neoliberal privatization.”—John Seery, George
Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and
Professor of Politics, Pomona College
144 PAGES
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Thinking Out Loud
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Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Edited by J. M. Bernstein, Adi Ophir,
and Ann Laura Stoler
Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught,
perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the
question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like
properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is
political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain
struggles, make existing power-relations at once self-evident
and opaque, and blur the possibility of re-imagining them
differently. Political Concepts seeks to revive our common
political vocabulary, and to do so critically. Its entries take
the form of essays in which each contributor presents her or
his own original reflection on a concept posed in the tradi-
tional Socratic question format “What is X?” and asks what
sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now.
288 PAGES
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Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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Citizen Subject
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
ÉTIENNE BALIBAR
Translated by Steven Miller
Foreword by Emily Apter
“The appearance of this book in France was something of a
historic event. . . . One of the strongest, most ambitious, and
most pertinent rewritings of the history of philosophy that
readers are likely to encounter in their lifetimes.”—Bruce
Robbins, Columbia University
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Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics
The Heidelberg Conference
JACQUES DERRIDA, HANS-GEORG GADAMER,
AND PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE
Edited by Mireille Calle-Gruber
Translated by Jeff Fort
Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy
“In light of the renewed debates about Heidegger and Na-
zism, Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics is a timely book.
Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe and Gadamer tackle Heidegger’s
thinking head on, providing new insights into his legacy.”
—Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University
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Kant on the Frontier
Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth
GEOFFREY BENNINGTON
Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of
civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new
field of activity.
Following what Kant himself would call this “guiding
thread” first in the “political” writings and then in the still
little-read “Critique of teleological judgment,” Bennington
tries to bring out a complex, abyssal, fractal structure, which
always leaves a residue of nature—violence—in every fron-
tier (including conceptual frontiers), and which complicates
Kant’s most explicit, most rational arguments by adding to
them an element of reticence or interruption.
Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book
also proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for
which thinking the frontier is both an essential resource and
the recurrent, fruitful, interruption.
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 RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
Scandalize My Name
Black Feminist Practice and
the Making of Black Social Life
TERRION L. WILLIAMSON
“Scandalize My Name is a rare work that manages to enter
the field of black feminist theory and articulate something
truly new, something that builds in thoughtful and rigorous
ways upon the work that has come before but also advances
the field of critical inquiry that we call “black feminism”
in a profound (rather than incremental) way. Williamson’s
theoretical elaboration of the concept of “black social life”--
as a response and antidote to black “social death” theory and
as a means of exposing and circumventing the constraints
of stereotype that shape respectability discourse and other
common critical rhetorics that structure black feminist anal-
ysis—is incredibly important.”—Candice Jenkins, University
of Illinois
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Fugitive Testimony
On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
JANET NEARY
“In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century
slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This
innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual
work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conven-
tions of authentication. This is an important book that
demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of
visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race
and representation persist in the present.”—Shawn Michelle
Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Teaching Bodies
Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
MARK D. JORDAN
“Integrity, proportion, clarity—the qualities that have always
informed Jordan’s writing about Thomas—are beautifully
present in Teaching Bodies. The work is a significant con-
tribution to the reading and interpretation of the medieval
theologian.”—Robert Miner, Baylor University
224 PAGES
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Who Can Afford to Improvise?
James Baldwin and Black Music,
the Lyric and the Listeners
ED PAVLIĆ
“A brilliant and original study of Baldwin as the ultimate
bluesman.”—David Ritz, author of Respect: The Life of Aretha
Franklin
“Who Can Afford to Improvise is a tour de force from one of
our premier Baldwin scholars. Ed Pavlic’s brilliantly insight-
ful meditation on black music and culture and Baldwin’s
centrality to that tradition is a must-read.”
—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights
“Pavlic proves himself an expert on Baldwin’s corpus.”
—Library Journal
“Who Can Afford to Improvise plays in the pocket between
actual musical performances, interpretations of the lyrical
mode in Baldwin’s poetics, and intricate historical detail.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
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Bilingual Brokers
Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital
JEEHYUN LIM
“Bilingual Brokers offers a compelling and convincing
account of the shifting reception and representations of
bilingualism, as it has been received in a predominantly
monolingual American culture and society. It probes with
insight the implications of these changes for Asian Ameri-
cans and Latino communities, especially since the dramatic
demographic changes in the size and constituencies of both
following sweeping reforms in immigration law and global
economic restructuring in the 1960s.”—Crystal Parikh, New
York University
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Spiritual Grammar
Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity
F. DOMINIC LONGO
“Dominic Longo helps us to understand Islam and Christi-
anity in deeper ways through the genre of ‘spiritual gram-
mar’. This is an extraordinary book that will benefit scholars
of Islam, Christianity, and Comparative Theology.”—Amir
Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
256 PAGES
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Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
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 POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Post-Mandarin
Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity
in Colonial Vietnam
BEN TRAN
“A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph
that presents a literary history and analysis of the “post-man-
darin” aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking
modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European
model.”—Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
“Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking
study of a key moment in the development of modern
Vietnamese literature.”—Christopher GoGwilt, Fordham
University
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The Transcontinental Maghreb
Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean
EDWIGE TAMALET TALBAYEV
“Impressively up to date and beautifully written, this book
will be of interest to scholars and students of French and
Francophone Studies, postcolonial studies, the growing field
of Mediterranean studies, and transcultural approaches to
memory. Talbayev gives lucid overviews of these areas, while
proposing her own distinctive models for thinking about
transcontinental connections in a global age.”—Debarati
Sanyal, University of California, Berkeley
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OF RELATED INTEREST
Postcards from Rio
Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship
KÁTIA DA COSTA BEZERRA
Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cul-
tural productions by young people and contemporary theo-
rists, Postcards from Rio examines the relationship between
citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.
By analyzing videos and photographs, author Kátia da Costa
Bezerra illustrates how citizens of favelas are reshaping their
sense of belonging as subjects and as a legitimate part of the
city. A groundbreaking study that examines more deeply the
relationship between urban space, citizenship, and imagery
originating in the favelas, Postcards from Rio sheds crucial light
on how contemporary lenses are defining the meanings of space
and citizenship as strategies of empowerment. The city emerges
as a political space where multiplicities of perspectives are inter-
twined with demands for more inclusive forms of governance.
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Fictitious Capital
Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel
ELIZABETH M. HOLT
“Compelling, inventive, and brilliantly argued, Elizabeth Holt’s
Fictitious Capital immediately becomes required reading. Link-
ing literary history to financial speculation, modes of consump-
tion, the development of the press in Arabic, the emergence of
the book as a modern form, and the changing forms of language
and writing in this period, this book has implications for virtually
all of the fields within Arabic studies, and beyond, as it changes
the ways in which think about language, reading, modernity, and
economy.”—Jeffrey Sacks, University of California, Riverside
192 PAGES
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The Decolonial Abyss
Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
AN YOUNTAE
“The Decolonial Abyss offers a decolonial political theol-
ogy that carefully considers but seeks to avoid pitfalls often
found in political theologies and philosophies that are based
or propose views grounded on absolute negativity, perpetual
deconstruction, or on apparent radical views that collapse into
Eurocentric conservatisms. It is a required reading for anyone
interested in political theology, liberation theologies, decolo-
nial thinking, as well as Caribbean literature and philosophi-
cal thought.”—Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University
200 PAGES
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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Pre-Occupied Spaces
Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations
and Colonial Legacies
TERESA FIORE
“A sophisticated and brilliant work of theoretical scaf-
folding, one that never loses sight of the perils of its own
iconoclastic undertaking. Pre-Occupied Spaces’ extremely
well-crafted structure helps the reader navigate from one
text to the other, while the theoretical architecture of the
book guides the reader through the impressive proliferation
of well-researched texts and critical references.”—Cristina
Lombardi-Diop, Loyola University Chicago
320 PAGES
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Critical Studies in Italian America
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 LITERARY CRITICISM
Bestiarium Judaicum
Unnatural Histories of the Jews
JAY GELLER
“Jay Geller’s Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of
the Jews is a remarkable monograph that has no parallel
in scholarly literature. The author offers a sophisticated
conceptual and historical account of how the longstanding
discourse about the animality of the Jew is accompanied by
an iconography of an unnatural Jewish bestiary.The racial
antisemitism that fueled the horrors of the Holocaust is con-
textualized in a new and thought-provoking way.”—Elliot R.
Wolfson, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Recoding World Literature
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books
B. VENKAT MANI
“Venkat Mani’s engrossing study of ‘bibliomigrancy’ makes
an important contribution to studies of world literature
and the politics of culture, probing the values—and the
exclusions—encoded in libraries, translation series, and now
the digital archive. Every bibliophile will want to add this
sparkling and thought- provoking book to their personal
library.”—David Damrosch, Harvard University
“This is a splendid, erudite, sophisticated, and eminently
readable book that makes vital, original interventions in sev-
eral interlocking fields in the humanities.”—Leslie Adelson,
Cornell University
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Prophecies of Language
The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism
KRISTINA MENDICINO
“Prophecies of Language offers strikingly original insights
into some of the most complex dimensions of Idealist and
Romantic thought. Mendicino’s ingenious analyses help us
rethink the singular challenges of these canonical texts in
innovative ways.”—Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College
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The Writing of Spirit
Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science
SARAH M. POURCIAU
“A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of lin-
guistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analy-
ses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of
Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major
impact on our understanding of language, physiological psy-
chology, and the limits of structuralism.”—John T. Hamilton,
Harvard University
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Corporate Romanticism
Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel
DANIEL M. STOUT
“To eye-opening effect, Daniel Stout argues that the his-
torical period, the early nineteenth century, and the literary
form, the novel, that we regularly associate with the triumph
of individualism and the consolidation of liberalism are
marked instead by anxieties about whether there is any such
thing as a person or an individual action and anxieties, too,
about whether persons and actions can ever be meaning-
fully correlated in the way that justice demands. Corporate
Romanticism might well come to be seen as one of the most
important books we have on nineteenth-century fiction and
liberal modernity.”—Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
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O F R E L AT E D I N T E R E S T
The Weight of Love
Affect, Ecstasy, and Union
in the Theology of Bonaventure
ROBERT GLENN DAVIS
“The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and well
researched book that illustrates the complexity of what
scholars call ‘affective’ devotion in the high Middle Ages by
means of detailed analyses of works of one of its most cele-
brated writers, the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian
Giovanni di Fidanza, otherwise known as St. Bonaventure.
This innovative book responds to contemporary scholarship
on mysticism, affective devotion, and medieval theology and
natural philosophy.”—Patricia Dailey, Columbia University
232 PAGES
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War Pictures
Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
KENT PUCKETT
“A welcome attempt to bring several mighty British films
of the 1940s into contemporary relevance. Seizing on the
eccentricity of three wartime movies—The Life and Times
of Colonel Blimp, Henry V, and Brief Encounter—Puckett
discloses the contrariety and oddity structuring these films’
responses to war with an extraordinary intensity of focus.”—
Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University
288 PAGES, 60 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS
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World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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All Ears
The Aesthetics of Espionage
PETER SZENDY
Translated by Roland Végsö
“Spying and surveilling—what Szendy himself expansively
translates as ‘overhearing’—are the rudiments of an old
profession, ‘perhaps the second oldest.’ Hence the neces-
sity of patiently patrolling the inner and outer corridors of
power, of walking the wild and labyrinthine sides of ‘our
ears,’ the history of which Szendy has again been proved a
masterful and exemplary listener. In this topical and grip-
ping book, which records and samples from the best and the
unexpected among spy stories (Sophocles, Kafka), theories
(Sun Tzu, Bentham, Adorno, Derrida), operas (Monteverdi,
Mozart, Berg), and films (Coppola, De Palma), Szendy ur-
gently reaches for a new listening post, and flawlessly deliv-
ers.”—Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
176 PAGES
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The Techne of Giving
Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
TIMOTHY C. CAMPBELL
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that combines theoretical sophistication with depth of liter-
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Utrecht University
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Commonalities
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POETRY
AND POETICS
The Limits of Fabrication
Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
NATHAN BROWN
“The Limits of Fabrication brings an essential argument to
discussions concerning the end of art. Where Hegel affirms
that poetry accomplishes the dematerialization of aesthetic
expression by reducing it to linguistic transparency, Brown
on the contrary demonstrates that a poem is always a factory,
where meaning is fashioned, even if invisibly, through the
crystals, quanta, or nanotubes of language. No metaphori-
cal abstraction in this, but the revelation of the elementary
technology at work in words. A strikingly singular, beautiful,
and important book.”—Catherine Malabou, author of The
New Wounded
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Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
American Literatures Initiative
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Pure Act
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
MICHAEL N. McGREGOR
“A fond biography of an unworldly man…vivid and engag-
ing.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A monkish naïve character dedicated to God and writing,
Lax maintained his gnomic humour throughout. This was a
man of more Beatitude than Beat. Invited by Billie Holiday to
go to her apartment to smoke dope and listen to jazz records,
McGregor tells us, he declined.”—Times Literary Supplement
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Catholic Practice in North America
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Writing of the Formless
Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time
JAIME RODRÍGUEZ MATOS
“Deep and dazzling. The Writing of the Formless dismantles
or powerfully threatens the very basis of much of what today
wants to present itself as ‘properly leftist’ thought but also
the equally paralyzing liberal-democratic administration of
things: both ideologies are anchored in disavowed under-
standings of temporality. This is a groundbreaking, extraor-
dinary book that will mark a before and after in Latinameri-
canism.”—Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University
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Sodomscapes
Hospitality in the Flesh
LOWELL GALLAGHER
Sodomscapes: Hospitality in the Flesh presents a fresh under-
standing of Lot’s wife in the reception history of the Sodom
story. The sudden mutation of Lot’s wife in the flight from
Sodom exemplifies the antiscopic bias that late modern
critical thought inherited from premodern legacies of pro-
hibited gazing. The book’s cumulative perspective identifies
Lot’s wife as the resilient figure of vigilant dwelling between
the substantialist dream of resemblance and the mutating
dynamism of otherness. The radical in-betweenness of the
figure discloses counter-intuitive ways of understanding
what counts as a life in the context of divergent claims of
being-with and being-for.
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Light and Death
Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton
JUDITH H. ANDERSON
“This fascinating book is above all a contribution to the
history of early modern science that helps an ongoing criti-
cal process of revisionism by showing how both scientific
and poetic thought use analogy in similar ways. It is also
fascinating in its unusual structure: it allows us access to
Anderson’s subtle critical mind in the process of building
interpretations.”—Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
ANDREW HUI
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erudition, this study interprets anew the shifts in meaning
and value of ruins from classical Latin, to the Romance lan-
guages, to English lyrics. At the heart of his analysis Hui un-
covers and probes the central problems raised by thinkers on
the archeology of ruins: the inner relation between literature
and ruins, the ethics of finitude they embody, their future,
and the place of ruins at the new beginnings of history. My
mind expands as I read it, and I can easily predict others
will respond the same way.”—Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling
Professor in the Humanities for Italian, Yale University
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Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
Modern Language Initiative
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The Insistence of Art
Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity
Edited by Paul A. Kottman
Contributors: J. M. Bernstein, Anthony J. Cascardi, Andrew
Cutrofello, Maarten Delbeke, Rachel Eisendrath, Kristin Gjesdal,
Lydia Goehr, Victoria Kahn, Paul A. Kottman, Jon R. Snyder
“A superb and timely collection—rigorous wide-ranging
essays demonstrating some of the most compelling trends
in their respective fields. It’s the sort of collection that
gives substance and urgency to interdisciplinary thinking.”
—Christopher Pye, Williams College
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Members of His Body
Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy
WILL STOCKTON
“Writing from a historical moment in which gay marriage
has refocused debates around religion, citizenship, and
sexuality, Will Stockton astutely explores how the concept
of “shared embodiment” at the heart of early modern mar-
riage theology manifests in Shakespeare’s plays. If Christians
marry in order to join the body of Christ, Stockton proposes,
then marriage produces not a bounded couple but a queerly
plural, embodied community. From this insight Stockton
produces supple, surprising readings of some familiar
Shakespearean texts, readings that are wonderfully alive to
the perversely non-monogamous marriages that result when
we restore God to the shared life of Shakespeare’s husbands
and wives.”—Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and the
Graduate Center, CUNY
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Futile Pleasures
Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility
COREY McELENEY
“If the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the
work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the produc-
tion of social value, then Corey McEleney’s bold new book
asks an indispensable question: Can art escape such coercive
labor without making it escape the value it then labors to
affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in liter-
ary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory
in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major
work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but
also—we must admit it—valuably to debates in both of those
fields.”—Lee Edelman, Tufts University
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