Books in the Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society series

The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."-from the Introduction

This text argues that some of romanticism's most daring innovations owe their form and substance to the subject of chemistry. Focusing on the work of Friedrich Schlegel, it demonstrates the degree to which romantic poetics, in its language and concepts, relies on the chemistry of its day.

Treating the subject of early modern national expression from a broad comparative perspective, The Site of Petrarchism will be of interest to scholars of late medieval and early modern literature in Europe, historians of culture, and critical theorists.

Providing close readings and imaginative analyses of the entire literary output of one of twentieth-century France's most important Jewish writers, Abecassis presents here a major work of literary scholarship, as well as a broader study of the reception and influence of Jewish thought in French literature and philosophy.

Traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. This book examines the philosophical and literary reception of the French Revolution.

Explores different concepts of the window, in literal and figurative sense, as manifested in various visual forms in German culture since the 19th century. This book offers a fresh interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity, examining the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture.

This groundbreaking interpretation offers a new approach to the reading of medieval literature and revolutionizes the study of the Nibelungenlied itself-providing a richer understanding of the work's significance both in its era and for our own.

Exploring a range of competing representations, Gould asks whether Carmen is a dangerous femme fatale, a liberated woman, or, as Nietzsche saw her, a warrior in the vanguard of the battle between the sexes.

Stivale's analysis offers an intimate view into the thought of one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.

From a neighborhood where pushers and poststructuralists meet on the street (sometimes violently), where the anger of sixties' activism never cooled, Suburban Ambush is an indispensable introduction to the women and men writing about what the Village Voice has called "the lower east side of sombody's gut."

An introduction and glossary of terms help make this an indispensable volume for the student as well as the specialist.

Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of violence.

Surveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.

Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.

Anthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold Weinstein

This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.

Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-textof hypertext studies.

Humanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life.

Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.

Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the "bottom up" - in geopolitics and art.

Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.

The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.

It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.