Volume One - Spring 2003
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Aid and Borrowed Tongues: Ngugi's Devil on the Cross And Farah's Gifts
R.J. JENKINS

If Looks Could Kill: The Transsexual's Gaze in The Silence of the Lambs
JOHN L'ECUYER

Critics, Meddlers, and the Reception of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism
NICO MUHLY

The Limits of the Sadean Sublime
LINDSEY M. FREER

Reclaiming Paradise Lost:
The Angelic Bias in Fish's Milton
RYAN RUBY

The Machinery of Writing:
An Interview with George Plimpton
PAUL MORTON

 



 


Volume Two - Spring 2004
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In Memoriam: Reflections on the Future of Orientalism
AKEEL BILGRAMI, MARC NICHANIAN

Truth, Language, and History in Arturo Arias' After the Bombs
MAX V. BACH

Interpretative Desire:
Augustine's Semiotics and the Transcendental Signfified
ALEXANDER L. ZACHARY

Fantastic Genealogy in Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener, rue Labat
ZACHARY T. ROSE

The Radical in Academia:
An Interview with Professor Brian Massumi
CORA E. DEAN

 


Volume Three - Spring 2005
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Jacques Derrida: In Memoriam
PROFESSORS TAYLOR CARMAN, GIL ANIDJAR, ROSALIND MORRIS, EMILY APTER, AND PATRICIA DAILEY

Primo Levi's Language Lesson
RAMSEY MCGLAZER

Death-Life Poetics: Resurrections in  Césaire and Pietri
KATERINA SELIGMANN

Outside in the Literature Machine: George Gissing's New Grub Street
NIKIL SAVAL

The Composition of Medieval Love:  Amor and Amicitia in Parce Continuis
KATE MENG BRASSEL

Poetry, Philosophy, and Style:
An Interview with Professor Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
VICTORIA CAMBLIN

    

Volume Four - Spring 2006
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The 2005-6 After Hours
Discussion Series
PROFESSORS ANN DOUGLAS, NICHOLAS DAMES, NEGUIN YAVARI, JENNY DAVIDSON, AMANDA CLAYBAUGH, ANDREW DELBANCO, AND JAMES SHAPIRO

Rescuing the Past from History:
E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime
LIZ MAYNES-AMINZADE

Creating a Renaissance: Matthiessen, Fiedler, and an American Literary History
ASHLEY L. COHEN

Flaubert and the Mirror: Character and Style in A Sentimental Education
JONATHAN BLITZER

Marie NDiaye: Translating the Surface
LIESL YAMAGUCHI

Premeds and Puritans:
An Interview with Professors Molly Murray and Rebecca Stanton
NOAH BLOCK-HARLEY AND
ISABEL BUSSARAKUM

Becoming Unbearable:
An Interview with Slavoj Žižek
AVI ALPERT

The Consolation of Philosophy:
An Interview with Professor Elaine Scarry
NOAH BLOCK-HARLEY


        
 

              



   


Volume Five - Spring 2007
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Nobility, Money, and Metaphor: Yvain's Mythic Reclamation of Debt
HELEN SKIBA

Ben Jonson's Rebus: Visualizing the Textuality of The Alchemist
JAMES McGIRK

Where the Studio Meets the Stage: Painting and Theatricality in Manet's Mademoiselle V... en Costume d'Espada
LUCIANA COLAPINTO

Looking at it Close-Up: Abbas Kiarostami Directs the mise-en-scene of Reality
ISABEL BOHRER

On the Body with Wintergreen Organs: Excising Text, Narrating Ribs in Ch'oe Yun's "The Gray Snowman"
JON KIEF

Style and New Formalism: A Panel Discussion with Amanda Claybaugh, Nicholas Dames, Jenny Davidson, and David Kurnick
ELIZABETH C. GREFRATH AND JENNY KANE

Formalism, Structuralism and "Infrastructuralism": An Interview with Caroline Levine
J.H. JASON KIM

        
 

              



   


Volume Seven - Spring 2009
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Strange Worlds: From the Kafkaesaue to the Lyncian in Eraserhead and Mullholland Dr
DOUG DRISCOLL

The Rhetorical "Beast with Two Backs": Zeugma in Shakespeare's Othello
ERIC HIRSCH

Ideology in Language and Practice
JOSEPH MEYERS

The Drama of the Market: Reading Secular Epistemology in Père Goriot
MARY GRACE ALBANESE

"The Unending Rain of Spring": Poetic and Emotional Refinement in Heian Court Poetry
KATHERINE LUPICA

Language, Identity, Agency: A Roundtable Discussion with Akeel Bilgrami, Ross Posnock and Elizabeth Povinelli