Books in the Paragraph Special Issues series

About the author: Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham. Her most recent book-length publications are After Foucault, as editor (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Selfish Women (Routledge, 2019). She is currently completing a monograph-manifesto, entitled Against Affect, funded in 2021-2 by a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship.

Luce Irigaray presents international, intercultural, intergenerational dialogues around her work in this collection of essays on Irigaray's work by an intergenerational, international range of contributors. Each paper is followed by questions from Irigaray and then a response by the author of the paper.

This is a special issue of the journal Paragraph.

This collection features work by some of the most important and innovative thinkers and writers in the field, including a new poem by Assia Djebar.

This special issue of Paragraph brings together differing approaches (from a diverse range of disciplines) to the question of the representation of men's bodies in twentieth-century visual culture.

This special issue of Paragraph brings together new essays on the work of Jacques Ranciere by thinkers from a range of disciplines and critical perspectives.

This volume traces rhythm in literature as it unfolds in the work of writers since the 'crisis of verse'.

An interdisciplinary study of the interface between ethical ideals and worldly demands.

As a writer of fiction, a literary critic, thinker and political commentator, Maurice Blanchot fulfilled some of his century's most pressing challenges. In the centenary year of his birth, this volume considers these questions from a variety of approaches, and addresses the significance of Blanchot's writing for the times to come.