With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in
terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On …

Because emotion is assumed to depend on subjectivity, the" death of the subject" described
in recent years by theorists such as Derrida, de Man, and Deleuze would also seem to mean …

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always
so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor …

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to
Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed …

This article examines an enigma at the heart of Freud's work on trauma: the surprising
emergence, from within the theory of the death drive, of the drive to life, a form of survival that …

Helmut Illbruck traces the concept of nostalgia from the earliest uses of the term in the
seventeenth century to today as it evolves with different meanings and intensities in the …

In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic
poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been …

In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during
the'revolutionary decade'David Fairer questions the accepted literary history of the period …

Dr. Garratt argues that by the 1860s empiricism was both a dominant cultural language and
a reflexive epistemic theory, producing a model of contingent selfhood conceived …

In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks
considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession …