Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Adorno’s writings on aesthetics in light of the unexpected return of the aesthetic to today’s cultural debates.

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore the possibilities and limitations of presence from a variety of perspectives

The first book to treat the emergence of Flarf, Conceptual Poetry, and other genres of contemporary avant-garde poetry in a serious way.

Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise.

An exploration of the divided view of creation that governs Milton's related systems of cosmology, theology, art, and history.

Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath.

In this book, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, considering history as both process and representation.

Altieri focuses his attention on the poetry of Wallace Stevens, arguing that critics have failed to appreciate the degree to which modernist poetry, like modernist art, breaks from the epistemology that arose from cultures of empiricism.