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Vol. 28, no. 2, 1999 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Marcel Bénabou edited by Sydney Lévy
Articles on Bénabou by Warren Motte, Jacques Roubaud, Claude Burgelin, Robert Elbaz, Catherine Lorente. Bénabou on Roussel and Rousseau.
Plus: Andrew Elbon on Mallarmé, Betsy Flèche on Benjamin, Marie-Laure Ryan on Virtual Reality, William N. west on Staging Meaning.

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Vol 28, no. 1, 1999 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Literary History edited by Eric Méchoulan and Christopher Prendergast
David Simpson on Literary History, Ursula Link-Heer on Proust, Hélène Merlin on Decontextualizing Context, Eric Méchoulan on “From Music to Literature,” Simon Goldhill on Reading in the Ancient World, Christopher Prendergast on New Historicism and the Poetics of Culture. (more…)

Vol 27, no. 3, 1998 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: The Occupation edited by Rosemarie Scullion
Jeffrey Mehlman on Blanchot vs. Drieu, Richard J. Golsan on Giono, David Carroll on State Anti-Semitism, Carrie Tarr on L’Eternel retour, Pascale Gaitet on Genet, Nathalie Rachlin on Ponge, Rosemarie Scullion on Perec. (more…)

Vol. 27, no. 2, 1998 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Reading Violence edited by David F. Bell and Lawrence R. Schehr
Marcel Hénaff on Political and Libertine Violence, Chantal Thomas on terror in Lyon, Diane Fourny on Literature of/on Violence, Pierre Saint-Amand on Quatrevingt-treize, Catherine Nesci on Violence and Desire in Dumas, David F. Bell on Reading Corpses, Lawrence R. Schehr on Mirbeau’s Ultraviolence. (more…)

Vol. 27, No. 1, 1998 [Full Text*]
William Donoghue on Skepticism, Stephen Adam Schwartz on Blanchot, Steven Maras on Bergson, Marie Josephine Diamond on Flaubert, Jing Tsu on Pleasure in Failure, Chris Andre on Benjamin. (more…)

Vol. 26, No. 3, 1997 [Full Text*]
Christopher Norris on Anti-Realism, Robert Holton on Bourdieu, Eric Méchoulan on The Time of Theory, Robert F. Barsky on Outsider Law in Literature, Richard Serrano on Lacan’s Oriental Language, Gabriele Schwab on Words and Moods, Gregg Lambert on Deleuze, Chris Bongie on Creole Identities. (more…)

Vol. 26, No. 2, 1997 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Michel Serres: An Ecology of Knowledge, edited by Sydney Lévy.
With contributions by Michel Serres, William Paulson, Paul Harris, Marcel Hénaff, David Bell, Pierre Saint-Amand and Gregory Dale Adamson. (more…)

Vol. 26, No. 1, 1997 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: Metamorphoses of the Book, edited by Renée Riese Hubert.
With contributions by Judd D. and Renée Riese Hubert, Buzz Spector, Roger Chartier, Pierre Lévy, Warren Motte, Joseph Tabbi, Herman Rapaport, Johanna Drucker, Margot Lovejoy and Paul Zelevansky. (more…)

Vol. 25, No. 3, 1996 [Full Text*]
25th Anniversary Issue: A look at the last 25 years by the Editors.
Articles on Literary Studies and the End of History, Wonders, A Wrinkle in Historical Time, Games Critics Play, Literary Studies and Literary Pragmatics, Narrative Poetics, Beckett and Deleuze, and Nietzschean Geometry. (more…)

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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