Remembering the Other: Knowledge and Recognition in the Exploration of Central Africa

The Buddhist Icon

Farewell to Jokes: The Last Capricci oF Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and the Tradition of Irony in Venetian Painting
Turner's Classicism and the Problem of Periodization in the History of Art

They Repeatedly Lick Their Own Things

Paul de Man's Silence
Forms of Judicial Blindness, or the Evidence of What Cannot Be Seen: Traumatic Narratives and Legal Repititions in the O.J. Simpson Case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata
Benjamin's Silence
Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann Trial, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust
CRITICAL RESPONSE: A Response to Marianna Torgovnick

Romance and Romanticism

Pornography: The Theory
Emma, or Happiness (or Sex work)
On Choice: Getting Past "Yes" to Number One

Editor's Introduction: Mirrors, Frames, and Demons: Reflections on the Sociology of Literature

Creativity--A Dangerous Myth

CRITICAL RESPONSE: Rehabilitating Reference: Charles Altieri's "Presence and Reference in a Literary Text"

PRAGMATISM AND LITERARY THEORY: Consequences
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Facts and Fictions: A Reply to Ralph Rader
AN EXCHANGE: Fear of Fish: A Reply to Walter Davis
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Interpreting "Interpreting the Variorum"
Interpreting the Variorum
Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes without Saying, and Other Special Cases
CRITICAL RESPONSE: One More Time
ON PROFESSIONALISM: Profession Despise Thyself: Fear and Self-Loathing in Literary Studies
CRITICAL RESPONSE: A Reply to John Reichert; or, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Interpretation
Spectacle and Evidence in Samson Agonistes
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in the Law and in Literary Criticism
With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida
Boutique Multiculturalism, or, Why Liberals Are Incapable of Thinking about Hate Speech
Truth But No Consequences: Why Philosophy Doesn't Matter
Theory's Hope
Take This Job and Do It: Administering the University without an Idea

Entitling

Jasper Johns: Strategies for Making and Effacing Art

Yeats, Joyce, and the Matter of Ireland

Quoting Poetry

Northrop Frye: The Critical Passion

CRITICAL RESPONSE: On Thinking about Aristotle's "Thought"

"Primitive" Scenes

Madness, the Absence of Work
The Subject and Power

The Female as Metaphor in William Blake's Poetry

Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism

History, Textbooks, and Art: Reflections on a Half Century of Helen Gardner's Art through the Ages

Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins

Spatial Form: An Answer to Critics

George Washington Williams and the Beginnings of Afro-American Historiography

Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Some Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas

Almayer's Face: On "Impressionism" in Conrad, Crane, and Norris
Between Realisms: From Derrida to Manet
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Forget It: A Response to Richard Shiff
Manet in His Generation: The Face of Painting in the 1860s
Painter into Painting: On Courbet's After Dinner at Ornans and Stonebreakers
Painting Memories: On the Containment of the Past in Baudelaire and Manet
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Response to Bill Brown
CRITICAL RESPONSE: How Modernism Works: A Response to T.J. Clark
The Structure of Beholding in Courbet's 'Burial at Ornans'
Thoughts on Caravaggio
Response to Caroline A. Jones
Barthes's Punctum

The U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: American Literature through the Filter of Recent Soviet Publishing Criticism

Music and Jugendstil

CRITICAL RESPONSE: The Hegemonic Form of Othering; or, The Academic's Burden

CRITICAL RESPONSE: Pechter's Specter: Milton's Bogey Writ Small; or, Why Is He Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
When Eve Reads Milton: Undoing the Canonical Economy

A Pebble, a Camera, a Man Who Turns into a Telegraph Pole

Expanding Eyes

Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look
Look Who's Talking, or If Looks Could Kill Corpse Poem