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Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages
Eugene Vance
1987 Spring
Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society.
Romantic Vision, Ethical Context
Novalis and Artistic Autonomy
Géza von Molnar
1987 Spring
Exploring the full range of Novalis's (the pen name of the German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg) work, von Molnar shows how he dealt, in theory and practice, with a central issue in Romanticism-the emerging concept of the autonomous self and its relation.
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.
Vengeance of the Victim
History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani’s Fiction
Marilyn Schneider
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.
Literature Among Discourses
The Spanish Golden Age
Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors
1986 Fall
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.
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.
The Power of Genre
Adena Rosmarin
1986 Spring
Just Gaming
Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud
1985 Fall
Just Gaming
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.
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 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.
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
Caryl Emerson, Editor
1984 Spring
This important 20th-century theory of the novel focuses on “Dostoevskian discourse.”
Story and Situation
Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction
Ross Chambers
1984 Spring
Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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