Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.

The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno’s writings on art and literature.

The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.

A creative study of Maurice Blanchot’s theory of literary voice.

A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence.

Reintroduces the concept of “world literature” in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.

Examines the importance of Leo Bersani’s work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies.

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction.

Examines the theory and practice of nonfiction narrative literature in twentieth-century Mexico.

A comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and critics.

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).

A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.

Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.

Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.

A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.

Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.