SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
Tracking Capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
Thresholds, Encounters
Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.
The Other Synaesthesia
Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.
This Side of Philosophy
Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.
Literature and Skepticism
Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.
The Writing of Innocence
An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.
Between Celan and Heidegger
Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.
Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World
Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.
Poetics of Breathing
A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
The Blossom Which We Are
Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.
The Play of Light
Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.
Knowing It When You See It
Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.
The Lily's Tongue
Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.
The Vocation of Writing
Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.
Figures of Time
Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.
Storytelling
An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.
Echoes of a Queer Messianic
Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.
Phrase
The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.
Witnessing beyond the Human
Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.
The Love of Ruins
Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase
First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.
Literature and "Interregnum"
Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.