Critical Response III: Response

Naming as History: Dickinson's Poems of Definition
The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson's Impersonal
The Practice of Attention: Simone Weil's Performance of Impersonality

The Trés Riches Heures: An Illuminated Manuscript in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Introduction to Penser la folie: Essais sur Michel Foucault

"On the Threshold of the Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory
Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context

The Literal Message

The Presentness of Painting: Adrian Stokes as Aesthetician

Citizen Kane, The Great Gatsby, and Some Conventions of American Narrative
The Scripts of Citizen Kane
Orson Welles and Gregg Toland: Their Collaboration on Citizen Kane

The Claims of the Dead: History, Haunted Property, and the Law

Phantasmagoria: Spectral Technology and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie
Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics

On Makavajev On Bergman
A Reply to John Hollander
North by Northwest
The Division of Talent
Freud and Philosophy: A Fragment
Who Disappoints Whom?
Postscript (1989): To Whom It May Concern
Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager
Benjamin Signalling

Myths of Violence in American Popular Culture

Literal or Liberal: Translating Perception

Interview with Marcello Pezzetti

Ezra Pound: "Insanity," "Treason," and Care

Where Is the Now?
Romantic Archive: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal

Commentary in Literary Texts

Romantic Allusiveness
The Pope Controversy: Romantic Poetics and the English Canon
Critical Disciplinarity

What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (and Vice Versa)
Critical Response: Reply to Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Occidentalism as Counterdiscourse: "He Shang" in Post-Mao China

Tradition and Topoi in Medieval Literature

Critical Multiculturalism Group

Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She

"Like a Guilty Thing Surprised": Deconstruction, Coleridge, and the Apostasy of Criticism
From Rhetoric to Corporate Populism: A Romantic Critique of the Academy in an Age of High Gossip
Critical Response: Spike Lee, Corporate Populist
The Romantic Movement at the End of History
The Time Warner Conspiracy: JFK, Batman, and the Manager Theory of Hollywood Film Critical Response: Taking It to the Next Level: You've Got Mail, Havholm and Sandifer

We Who Are Free, Are We Free?

Forging Identity: Beethoven's "Ode" as European Anthem

Narrative and Theories of Desire

Dancin' in the Rain

Metaphor and the Cultivation of Intimacy

Critical Response: Reflections on Las Meninas: Paradox Lost

Reading Blackface in West Africa: Wonders Taken for Signs

On Bruns, On Cavell In the Electoral Colony: Kafka in Florida

In Defense of Song: The Contribution of Roger Sessions

The Poet as Elaborator: Analytical Psychology as a Critical Paradigm

Critical Response: Enlightening the Enlightenment: A Response to John Brenkman

Error in Paul de Man

The Enchantment of Interpretation
On the Dignity of Tables
Purity

Schreber's Memoirs of a Nervous Illness

Critical Response : Toward Uncritical Practice
Gerald Bruns's Cavell

Reductionism and Its Discontents

On Jacques Derrida's "Paul de Man's War": "Paul de Man's War" and the Aesthetic Ideology