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Theatrical Consciousness
Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism investigates late Russian and early Soviet modernism’s reinvention of the actor, showing how new theories of acting reimagined the nature of human consciousness and perception.
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Modern France rethinks the being of nature, art, and politics via new readings of early modern aesthetic and scientific practices alongside classical and contemporary philosophers.
First Contact
Series: FlashPoints
First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas examines the power of speculative fiction to reimagine historical accounts of the conquest of the Americas, asking whether it is truly possible to decolonize the speculative imagination.
Reclaiming Time
Surveys a diverse array of Black performance and visual texts that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century
In the Sun King's Cosmos
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
In the Sun King’s Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France explores the relationship between sensory experience, state ideology, and artistic form, examining literature and art inspired by comets that unsettled the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture aspired.
Soft Matter
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism is a provocative exploration of the cultivation of weak subjectivity in late Soviet fiction as both an aesthetic strategy and an ethical code.
Here Is a Figure
Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form is a study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature that reveals the potential in thinking with and through a position stretched out across, dependent on, and undetachable from the earth.
Curating Worlds
Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature shows how museum practices shed new light on literary form itself—how stories are created, shaped, and communicated—while making sense of the lives, and afterlives, of things today.
Flamboyant Fictions
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from the advent of literary and filmic modernism to the present day.
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature
Series: FlashPoints
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.
Theatrical Consciousness
Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism investigates late Russian and early Soviet modernism’s reinvention of the actor, showing how new theories of acting reimagined the nature of human consciousness and perception.
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
First Contact
Series: FlashPoints
Reclaiming Time
In the Sun King's Cosmos
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
In the Sun King’s Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France explores the relationship between sensory experience, state ideology, and artistic form, examining literature and art inspired by comets that unsettled the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture aspired.
Soft Matter
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism is a provocative exploration of the cultivation of weak subjectivity in late Soviet fiction as both an aesthetic strategy and an ethical code.
Here Is a Figure
Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form is a study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature that reveals the potential in thinking with and through a position stretched out across, dependent on, and undetachable from the earth.
Curating Worlds
Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature shows how museum practices shed new light on literary form itself—how stories are created, shaped, and communicated—while making sense of the lives, and afterlives, of things today.
Flamboyant Fictions
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from the advent of literary and filmic modernism to the present day.
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature
Series: FlashPoints
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.