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The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Jean-François Lyotard 1984 Spring: This founding essay of the postmodern movement argues that knowledge-science, technology, and the arts-has undergone a change of status since the 19th century and especially since the late 1950s.
Dubious Alliance The Making of Minnesota’s DFL Party John Earl Haynes 1984 Spring
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature Erich Auerbach 1984 Spring
Theory and History of Folklore Vladimir Propp Anatoly Liberman, Editor 1984 Spring: A selection of seven essays and three book chapters from Russian folklorist Propp’s later work.
The People Named the Chippewa Narrative Histories Gerald Vizenor 1984 Fall: Ranging in time and space from Madeline Island and the reservations of northern Minnesota to the urban reservation of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Vizenor recounts the experiences of the Chippewa and their encounters with the white people who “named” them.
The Structural Allegory Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought John Fekete, Editor 1984 Fall
Practical Reason, Aristotle, and Weakness of the Will Norman O. Dahl 1984 Fall
Theory of the Avant-Garde Peter Bürger 1984 Spring: This volume sets before English-language readers for the first time a fully elaborated theory of the “institution of art.” The author argues that it is the social status of art, its function and prestige in society, that provides the connection between the individual art work and history. Bürger’s concept of the institution of art establishes a framework within which a work of art is both produced and received.
Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity William L. Harper and Ralf Meerbote, Editors 1984 Fall
The Limits of Scientific Reasoning David Faust 1984 Fall: Draws upon the findings of cognitive psychology to show that human judgment is far more limited than we have tended to believe, and that all individuals, scientists included, have a surprisingly restricted capacity to interpret complex information.
Utility and Rights R.G. Frey, Editor 1984 Fall
Solidarity Forever An Oral History of the IWW Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer None None
Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 Lyle N. McAlister 1984 Fall: A narrative and interpretive history of Spanish and Portuguese exploration, settlement, and colonization of the Americas.
Postures of the Mind Essays on Mind and Morals Annette Baier 1975 Spring
Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time Roman Jakobson Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy, Editors 1985 Spring
Mentality and Machines Keith Gunderson 1985 Spring
The Poetics of Plot The Case of English Renaissance Drama Thomas G. Pavel 1985 Spring: A unique methodology for plot analysis focusing on an important body of English Renaissance dramas.
Visions of Excess Selected Writings, 1927-1939 Georges Bataille Allan Stoekl, Editor 1985 Spring: Challenges the notion of a “closed economy” predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste.
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Diagnosis and Treatment James Mitchell, Editor None None
Uncertain Dimensions Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century Raymond F. Betts 1985 Spring
Noise The Political Economy of Music Jacques Attali 1984 Fall: Argues that music does not reﬂect society; it foreshadows new social formations.
Middletown Families Fifty Years of Change and Continuity Theodore Caplow, Bruce A. Chadwick, Howard M. Bahr, Reuben Hill and Margaret Holmes Williamson 1985 Spring
Kant’s Critical Philosophy The Doctrine of the Faculties Gilles Deleuze 1985 Spring: In an essay surveying the essential themes of all three Critiques, Deleuze restores the Critique of Judgement to its key position in Kant’s work.
Cloning Nuclear Transplantation in Amphibia Robert Gilmore McKinnell None None
The End of American History Democracy, Capitalism, and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in Anglo-American Historical Writing, 1880-1980 David W. Noble 1985 Fall: Using the work of four major historians, Noble focuses on the dramatic change in historical structure and meaning that came with the collapse of the progressive paradigm and its guiding metaphor of exodus from the Old World to the New World.
Metaphysics Bruce Aune 1985 Fall: Comprehensive introductory survey of the key concepts and problems in traditional and contemporary metaphysics.
India Waits Jan Myrdal None None
Framed Narratives Diderot’s Genealogy of the Beholder Jay Caplan 1985 Fall: Focuses on the problem of framing in and of Diderot and proposes an interpretive model that draws upon the notion of dialogue developed by Bakhtin. “Written in an engaging, readable style, Caplan’s short book reopens fascinating questions on Diderot’s texts for both specialist and non-specialist readers.” --Modern Language Notes
Just Gaming Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud 1985 Fall: Just Gaming
Politics, Writing, Mutilation The Cases of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris, and Ponge Allan Stoekl 1985 Fall
The Power of Genre Adena Rosmarin 1986 Spring
Philosophy Beside Itself On Deconstruction and Modernism Stephen W. Melville 1986 Spring
Heterologies Discourse on the Other Michel de Certeau 1986 Spring: Sixteen essays that illustrate the author’s work in the ﬁelds of history, literary studies and psychoanalysis.
Postmodernism and Politics Jonathan Arac, Editor 1986 Spring: Eight essays on postmodernism with a focus on intellectual, artistic and social concerns.
Jesuit Letters From China, 1583-84 M. Howard Rienstra, Editor None None
The Newly Born Woman Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement 1986 Spring: Published in France as Le jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women’s sexuality and unconscious shape their imaginary, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history.
The Colonial Harem Malek Alloula 1986 Spring: A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this “album” illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society.
Literature Among Discourses The Spanish Golden Age Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors 1986 Fall
The Resistance to Theory Paul de Man 1986 Fall: Explores reasons why the theoretical enterprise is blind to, or “resists,” the radical nature of reading, in six essays that offer a new level of critical and cultural understanding in reference to the works of Jauss, Riffaterre, Benjamin, and Bakhtin.
Demarcating the Disciplines Philosophy, Literature, Art Samuel Weber, Henry Sussman and Wlad Godzich, Editors 1986 Fall
Cinema 1 The Movement-Image Gilles Deleuze 1986 Fall: A revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema that identifies three principal types of image-movement using examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers including Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes, and Altman.
Kafka Toward a Minor Literature Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1986 Fall: Instead of interpreting Kafka’s work according to pre-existing categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of “minor literature”—the use of a major language that subverts it from within.
Reproductions of Banality Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life Alice Yaeger Kaplan 1986 Fall
Vengeance of the Victim History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani’s Fiction Marilyn Schneider 1986 Fall
The Scientific Marx Daniel Little 1986 Fall
Questing Fictions Latin America’s Family Romance Djelal Kadir 1986 Fall: Analyzes 20th-century Latin American fiction in the light of contemporary literary theory and focuses on the predicament of writers caught between the cultural domination of Europe and the need to strive for cultural autonomy.
MMPI Patterns of American Minorities W. Grant Dahlstrom, David Lachar and Leona E. Dahlstrom 1986 Fall: Systematically reviews the rapidly growing research literature on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) as it pertains to minority groups and it presents a new empirical study on normal and disturbed black and white adults.
Selected Plays, Volume I August Strindberg 2012 Fall: A collection of six of Strindberg’s best plays spanning his “pre-inferno” period
Quality Maintenance in Stored Grains and Seeds Clyde M. Christensen and Richard A. Meronuck 1986 Fall
Between East and West Finland in International Politics, 1944-1947 Tuomo Polvinen D.G. Kirby and Peter Herring, Editors None None