The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan: The Unnatural World

The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan: The Unnatural World

In this insightful study, Rochelle Tobias goes a long way to dispelling the obscurity that has surrounded the poet Paul Celan and his work.


Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory

Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory

The body as an object of critical study dominates disciplines across the humanities to such an extent that a new discipline has emerged: body criticism.


Mémoires du quotidien: les lieux de Perec

Mémoires du quotidien: les lieux de Perec

Surveying his own career in 1978 for the purposes of a short essay entitled “Notes sur ce que je cherche,” Georges Perec suggested that his work was animated by four […]


Novelas Ejemplares I

Novelas Ejemplares I

Las Novelas ejemplares publicadas en 1613 constituyen, segun indica el propio autor, el primer ejemplo de relato corto en la literatura castellana, de acuerdo con el significado en esa epoca de la palabra “novela.”


Perversity and Ethics

Perversity and Ethics

William Egginton argues that the notion of the ethical cannot be understood outside of its relation to perversity—that is, the impulse to do what one knows and feels is wrong.


The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy

The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy

The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy explores how the various discursive strategies of old and new pragmatisms are related, and what their pertinence is to the relationship between pragmatism and philosophy as a whole.


After the Palace Burns

After the Palace Burns

After the Palace Burns is the stunning debut of Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei and winner of the Paris Review Prize in Poetry. Each line in this extraordinary collection articulates entrance into a […]


How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity

How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity

William Egginton argues that the experience of modernity is fundamentally spatial rather than subjective and proposes replacing the vocabulary of subjectivity with the concepts of presence and theatricality.


Skeptical Selves

Skeptical Selves

This book examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation.


Diderot’s Dream