Books in the Paragraph Special Issues series

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.

Represnts the first collection of critical responses to be made to the work of Slavoj Zizek.

Aims both to reflect and to foster the extraordinary ongoing impact of Helene Cixous's writing across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and literary forms

The special issue responds to two concurrent phenomena: the re-emergence in the 21st century of religion as a political and cultural force, and its resurgence in a range of theoretical discourses, from postsecularism to New Atheism. Mirroring this theoretical and cultural turn, cinema across the world is renewing its acquaintance with religion as private practice, public display and political force and exploring overlapping material, spiritual and doctrinal concerns in the new millennium. This issue probes intersections between contemporary cinema and diverse theoretical, philosophical and theological engagements with religion. It compares cinema's capacity to present visual expressions of faith, evoke embodied experience and varied modalities of love, correlate earthly and divine realities and inspire belief and doubt with writings on religion and postsecularism. Contributors explore ideas about transcendence, vocation, affliction, love, doubt and forms of religious practice and expression that connect specific films with theoretical accounts that look beyond the secular. Key Features -Covers a wide range of cinemas from the United States, France, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. -Juxtaposes responses to Judaeo-Christian thought with Islamic feminism, theology from the Arab-speaking world and Buddhist ethics. -Situates recent films within traditions of idiosyncratic thinking about God that stretch back to the work of Søren Kierkegaard and Simone Weil. -Challenges the established (male, white) canon of religious film criticism and filmmakers, from Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson to Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. Libby Saxton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust (Wallflower, 2008), co-author of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium (Legenda: 2013). She is writing a book on iconic images, photography and cinema. Anat Pick is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011), co-editor of Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (Berghahn, 2013), and has published articles on animals, ethics and film. Her new book project is on the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil and cinema.

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.

An exploration of Francophone communities from the 19th century to the present. It is a collection of ten articles that provides an opportunity to explore Francophone communities from a range of perspectives which similarly engage with the most pressing questions in Francophone-Caribbean studies and postcolonial studies more generally.

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 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 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.

This Special Issue of the journal Paragraph proposes a new reading of the College de France Lectures of Roland Barthes.

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.

Explores a series of unsung - and sometimes counterintuitive - resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.

Inspired by Shoshana Felman s 1977 volume, Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading (Otherwise")

This collection brings together essays on Deleuze and Guattari's treatment of science in A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy?, as well as looking in detail at scientific issues such as emergence, complexity theory and non-linear dynamics.