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Vol.25, No.2, 1996 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Politics on Stage, edited by Marcel Hénaff.
“The Stage of Power” by Marcel Hénaff, “The Enigma of the Political Stage Director” by Gerald Sfez, “Shakespeare, the Stage, and the State” by Louis Montrose, “Persona: Reason and Representation in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy” by Paul Dumouchel, “The Representation of Power and the Power of Representation” by Jacqueline Lichtenstein, “A Well-Staged Coup de Théâtre” by Malina Stefanovska, “Theatricality, Public Space, and Music in Rousseau” by Tracy B. Strong.
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Vol.25, No.1, 1996 [Full Text*]
Contemporary Observations on Hypnotism in 1888 Paris, and articles on computers and perfect information by Kevin J. Porter, on inspiration in Blanchot by Timothy Clark, on Roussel and stereotype by Elizabeth Ezra, and on Foucault, by Kevin Jon Heller
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Vol.24, No.3, 1995 [Full Text*]
Gilles Deleuze on Beckett, Tony Jackson on Theory, Rei Terada on Metalanguage, Pierre Laszlo on Levels of Representation, Andrew Elbon on Ponge & Alechinsky, Alan Bourassa on Blanchot & Freud.
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Vol. 24, Nos. 1 & 2, 1995 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: France’s Identity Crises, edited by Lawrence Kritzman.
Cultural and national identity in France have been under siege for the last decade. The essays in this special double issue examine the challenges to France’s idea of itself: the importation of American culture (perhaps epitomized by Euro-Disneyland), membership in the European Union, and widespread immigration from North African former colonies, which has triggered xenophobic legislation undermining France’s traditional stance of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.
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Vol. 23, No. 3, 1994 [Full Text*]
Articles by Paul Mann on Masocriticism, by Alphonso Lingis on Sex Objects, by Gene Fendt on Intentionality and Mimesis, by Evelyn Cobley on Modern War Narratives, and by Daniel Barbiero on the Text’s Guarantee.
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Vol. 23, No. 2, 1994 [Full Text*]
Special Issue : Between Science and Literature, edited by Sydney Lévy
Articles by William Paulson on Chance, by David F. Bell on Statistical Thinking in Balzac, by Noële Batt on “L’Entre- deux,” by Michel Serres on Knowing and Believing, by Paul A. Harris on Perec, by Jean-Pierre Dupuy on the Self-Deconstruction of Convention, and by Pierre Laszlo on Science and Writing.
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Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994 [Full Text*]
Articles by Daniel Cottom on “Getting It,” by Fred Botting on the Real, by Anna Klobucka on Cixous, by Thomas O. Beebee on Khatibi, by Carrie Noland on Jaccottet, by James Merriwether on Chaos and Beckett, and by Steve Light on Sartre in the States.
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Vol. 22, Nos. 2 & 3, 1993 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Epistémocritique, edited by Noëlle Batt & Michel Pierssens.
This special double issue brings together 25 essays by an international cast of humanists and students of science who are grappling with the cultural gulf between their disciplines. Literature and scientific inquiry have too long been perceived as separate tracks, with little to offer one another. In these essays, our contributors look back on historical exchanges between these two approaches to reality, and look ahead to ways of reintegrating them–a synthesizing effort that Michel Pierssens has dubbed “Epistémocritique.”
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