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Theory and History of Literature Series

Series editors:
Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jochen Schulte-Sasse, University of Minnesota

Intended to stimulate research and encourage inderdisciplinary dialogue, the Theory and History of Literature series is internationally recognized for its cutting-edge literary scholarship.

"Theory and History of Literature is the only series for which I ever had a standing order. I knew that whatever volume appeared under its imprint would be one that I would need to read."
Stanley Fish, Duke University

"The completion of the Theory and History of Literature series marks the end of the era of the dominance of grand critical theory among the various languages of criticism in the academy. Of the several publishing series that played a pivotal role in the creation and dissemination of this sort of critical discourse, none was more important than Minnesota's THL series, which will serve posterity as a veritable archive of the great critical thinking of an era."
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

"The Theory and History of Literature series has done an immense service to American intellectual life for more than a decade in making available important books in theory."
J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

"When I began my training in literary theory, the Theory and History of Literature series looked to me--and to a lot of my fellow graduate students--like Theory Headquarters, the central station from which the future of any number of intellectual fields was being planned. Among Lyotard, de Man, Jauss, de Certeau, Bürger, and Todorov, the THL produced more than enough to keep me busy between the end of my last seminar and the day I finally deposited my dissertation--and it's been keeping me busy ever since."
Michael Berube, University of Illinois

"A brave publishing venture which has done much to disseminate key texts of European critical thought in the English-speaking world."
J M Coetzee, University of Cape Town

Books in the series:

Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetic Theory
volume 88 | 1998

Renate Lachmann
Memory and Literature
Intertextuality in Russian Modernism
volume 87 | 1997

Doris-Louise Haineault and Jean-Yves Roy
Unconscious for Sale
Advertising, Pschoanalysis, and the Public
volume 86 | OUT OF PRINT

Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge
Public Sphere and Experience
Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
volume 85 | OUT OF PRINT

Maria Paganini
Reading Proust
In Search of the Wolf-Fish
volume 84 | OUT OF PRINT

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
The Subject of Philosophy
volume 83 | 1993

Maurice Blanchot
The Infinite Conversation
volume 82 | 1992

Gregory Jusdanis
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture
Inventing National Literature
volume 81 | 1991

D. Emily Hicks
Border Writing
The Multidimensional Text
volume 80 | OUT OF PRINT

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Making Sense in Life and Literature
volume 79 | 1992

Giorgio Agamben
Language and Death
The Place of Negativity
volume 78 | 2006

Hélène Cixous
Readings
The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva
volume 77 | 1991

Jean-Luc Nancy
The Inoperative Community
volume 76 | 1991

Rey Chow
Woman and Chinese Modernity
The Politics of Reading between West and East
volume 75 | 1990

Paul J. Thibault
Social Semiotics
Text, Meaning, and Nabokov's Ada
volume 74 | 1990

Hélène Cixous
Reading with Clarice Lispector
volume 73 | 1990

N. S. Trubetzkoy
Writings on Literature
volume 72 | 1990

Neil Larson
Modernism and Hegemony
A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies
volume 71 | OUT OF PRINT

Paul Zumthor
Oral Poetry
An Introduction
volume 70 | 1990

Giorgio Agamben
Stanzas
Word and Phantasm in Western Culture
volume 69 | 1992

Hans Robert Jauss
Question and Answer
Forms of Dialogic Understanding
volume 68 | OUT OF PRINT

Paul de Man
Critical Writings, 1953-1978
volume 66 | 1989

Paul de Man
Aesthetic Ideology
volume 65 | 1996

Didier Coste
Narrative as Communication
volume 64 | 1989

Renato Barilli
Rhetoric
volume 63 | 1989

Daniel Cottom
Text and Culture
The Politics of Interpretation
volume 62 | OUT OF PRINT

Theodor W. Adorno
Kierkegaard
Construction of the Aesthetic
volume 61 | 1989

Kristin Ross
The Emergence of Social Space
Rimbaud and the Paris Commune
volume 60 | OUT OF PRINT

Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich, editors
Reading de Man Reading
volume 59 | OUT OF PRINT

F. W. J. Schelling
The Philosophy of Art

volume 58 | 1989

Louis Marin
Portrait of the King
volume 57 | OUT OF PRINT

Peter Sloterdijk
Thinker on Stage
Nietzsche's Materialism
volume 56 | 1989

Paul Smith
Discerning the Subject
volume 55 | 1988

Réda Bensmaïa
The Barthes Effect
The Essay as Reflective Text
volume 54 | OUT OF PRINT

Edmond Cros
Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism
volume 53 | OUT OF PRINT

Philippe Lejune
On Autobiography
volume 52 | OUT OF PRINT

Thierry de Duve
Pictorial Nominalism
On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade
volume 51 | 2005

Luiz Costa Lima
Control of the Imaginary
Reason and Imagination in Modern Times
volume 50 | OUT OF PRINT

Fredric Jameson
The Ideologies of Theory, volume 2
Syntax of History: Essays 1971-1986
volume 49 | OUT OF PRINT

Fredric Jameson
The Ideologies of Theory, volume 1
Syntax of Theory: Essays 1971-1986
volume 48 | OUT OF PRINT

Eugene Vance
From Topic to Tale
Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages
volume 47 | OUT OF PRINT

Jean-François Lyotard
The Differend
Phrases in Dispute
volume 46 | 1989

Manfred Frank
What is Neostructuralism?
volume 45 | OUT OF PRINT

Daniel Cottom
Social Figures
George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation
volume 44 | 1987

Michael Nerlich
Ideology of Adventure, volume 2
volume 43 | OUT OF PRINT

Michael Nerlich
Ideology of Adventure, volume 1
Studies in Modern Consciousness, 1100-1750
volume 42 | OUT OF PRINT

Denis Hollier
The College of Sociology
volume 41 | OUT OF PRINT

Peter Sloterdijk
Critique of Cynical Reason
volume 40 | 1988

Géza Von Molnár
Romantic Vision, Ethical Context
Novalis and Artistic Autonomy
volume 39 | 1987

Algirdas Julien Greimas
On Meaning
Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory
volume 38 | OUT OF PRINT

Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok
The Wolf Man's Magic Word
A Cryptonymy
volume 37 | 2005

Alice Yaeger Kaplan
Reproductions of Banality
Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life
volume 36 | OUT OF PRINT

Denis Hollier
The Politics of Prose
Essay on Sartre
volume 35 | OUT OF PRINT

Geoffrey Hartman
The Unremarkable Wordsworth
volume 34 | OUT OF PRINT

Paul de Man
Resistance to Theory
volume 33 | 1986

Djelal Kadir
Questioning Fictions
Latin America's Family Romance
volume 32 | OUT OF PRINT

Samuel Weber
Institution and Interpretation
volume 31 | OUT OF PRINT

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Kafka
Toward a Minor Literature
volume 30 | 1986

Peter Szondi
Theory of Modern Drama
volume 29 | OUT OF PRINT

Jonathan Arac, editor
Postmodernism and Politics
volume 28 | 1986

Stephen Melville
Philosophy Beside Itself
On Deconstruction and Modernism
volume 27 | OUT OF PRINT

Andrzej Warminski
Readings in Interpretation
Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger
volume 26 | OUT OF PRINT

José Antonio Maravall
Culture of the Baroque
Analysis of a Historical Structure
volume 25 | OUT OF PRINT

Hélène Cixous and Cathreine Clement
The Newly Born Woman
volume 24 | 1986

Klaus Theweleit
Male Fantasies, volume 2
Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
volume 23 | 1989

Klaus Theweleit
Male Fantasies, volume 1
Women, Floods, Bodies, History
volume 22 | 1987

Malek Alloula
The Colonial Harem
volume 21 | 1986

Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud
Just Gaming
volume 20 | 1985

Jay Caplan
Framed Narratives
Diderot's Genealogy of the Beholder
volume 19 | OUT OF PRINT

Thomas G. Pavel
The Poetics of Plot
The Case of English Renaissance Drama
volume 18 | 1985

Michel De Certeau
Heterologies
Discourse on the Other
volume17 | 1986

Jacques Attali
Noise
The Political Economy of Music
volume 16 | 1985

Peter Szondi
On Textual Understanding and Other Essays
volume 15 | OUT OF PRINT

Georges Bataille
Visions of Excess
Selected Writings, 1927-1939
volume 14 | 1985

Tzvetan Todorov
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Dialogical Principle
volume 13 | OUT OF PRINT

Ross Chambers
Story and Situation
Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction
volume 12 | 1984

John Fekete, editor
The Structural Allegory
Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought
volume 11 | OUT OF PRINT

Jean-François Lyotard
Postmodern Condition
A Report on Knowledge
volume 10 | 1984

Erich Auerbach
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature
volume 9 | OUT OF PRINT

Mikhail Bakhtin
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
volume 8 | 1984

Paul de Man
Blindness and Insight
Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
volume 7 | 1983

Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, and Wallace Martin, editors
The Yale Critics
Desconstruction in America
volume 6 | OUT OF PRINT

Vladimir Propp
Theory and History of Folklore
volume 5 | 1984

Peter Bürger
Theory of the Avant-Garde
volume 4 | 1984

Hans Robert Jauss
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics
volume 3 | OUT OF PRINT

Hans Robert Jauss
Toward an Aesthetic Reception
volume 2 | 1982

Tzvetan Todorov
Introduction to Poetics
volume 1 | 1981