The Pursuit of Lew Archer

An Ideology of Difference
The Problem of Textuality: Two Exemplary Positions
Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors
AN EXCHANGE ON EDWARD SAID AND DIFFERENCE: Response
ON PROFESSIONALISM: Response to Stanley Fish
Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community
Invention, Memory, and Place

Terrorizing Marie Antoinette

The Modulated Vision: Lionel Trilling's "Larger Naturalism"

CRITICAL RESPONSE: Corporate Authorship: A Response to Jerome Christensen

Lessons from the `Literatory': How to Historicise Authorship

CRITICAL RESPONSE: Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation

ARTISTS ON ART: The Unreality of Realism

Narration and Psychoanalytic Dialogue

Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
Self Evidence

Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women

Feminine Icons: The Face of Early Modern Science

Convention and the Context of Reading
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Literary Criticism and the Philosophy of Science: Rader's "Fact, Theory, and Literary Explanation"

Border Crossings: Italian/German Peregrinations of the Theater of Totality
On Rayon
The Romance of Caffeine and Aluminum

Deconstruction and Communication
Language, Narrative, and Anti-Narrative
Toward a Semiotics of Literature

Jonah and the Concept of Justice

Cartes Postales: Representing Paris 1900
Pensive Texts and Thinking Statues: Balzac with Rodin

Nations and Nationalism: Adultery in the House of David

Laissez-Faire Linguistics: Grammar and the Codes of Empire

Writing War Poetry Like a Woman

The Masculine Mode
Writing the Unthinkable
Corpsing the Image
Words and the Murder of the Thing

The Evidence of Experience
Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity

Photography and Representation

Las Meninas and the Paradoxes of Pictorial Representation

Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl
Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne, and Male Homosocial Desire
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Tide and Trust

Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins

Culture and Modeling System
Narrative Structures and Literary History

"Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait": Business as Usual?

The Crime System
Serial Killers (II): The Pathological Public Sphere

PUBLIC ART: Art and Censorship

The Natural Contract

Heinrich Schenker's Contribution

ARTISTS ON ART: The New Formalism
ARTISTS ON ART: "Far Lamps at Night": The Poetry of J. V. Cunningham

Pornography and Art: The Case of "Jenny"

Babel in America; or, The Politics of Language Diversity in the United States
Marranos (Pigs), or from Coexistence to Toleration

Of Sinking: Marxism and the "General" Economy

Prolegomena to Any Future Criticism Which Shall Claim to Make Sense

Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Remembering Impressions
Seeing Cézanne

CRITICAL RESPONSE: History and Innovation

Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness

Rap Remix: Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Other Issues in the House

In Pound We Trust: The Economy of Poetry/The Poetry of Economics

CRITICAL RESPONSE: A Matter of Interpretation

Criticism, Politics, and Style in Wordsworth's Poetry
Literary Criticism and the Return to "History"
Tourism and Titanomania

Lesbian and Gay Taxonomies

Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account
Contingencies of Value
Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories
On the Margins of Discourse

Scholem and Benjamin on Justice

The Scribbling Women and the Cosmic Success Story

Public Art Between Cultures: The Aboriginal Monument, Aboriginality, and Nationality in Australia

Las Meninas and the Mirror of the Prince
Picturing Vision
Notes from the Ground

Photography, Vision, and Representation

Coupling

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: The Sense of an Ending

The Robber in the Bedroom; or, The Thief of Love: A Woolfian Grieving in Six Novels and Two Memoirs

"All Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race

Single-World versus Plural-World Essentialism: A Reply to Tim Dean
Two Kinds of Antiessentialism and Their Consequences

Acting Bits/Identity Talk
"Draupadi" by Mahasveta Devi
The Politics of Interpretation
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
Thinking About Edward Said: Pages from a Memoir

ON SHELDON SACKS: Upon Rereading Fiction and the Shape of Belief

Fetishizing the Glove in Renaissance Europe

Acheronta Movebo

Conrad's Mortal Word
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Rorty's Circumvention of Derrida

The Persistence of the Archetype

The Line of Fate in Michelangelo's Painting

The Case for Unclear Thinking: The New Critics versus Charles Morris

CRITICAL RESPONSE: On Art and Science: A Reply to Leonard B. Meyer

Midrash and Indeterminacy

Conversions (A Story Blown Hither and Thither)
Paths That Wind Through the Thicket of Things

Penned In
Some Members of the Congress

ARTISTS ON ART: A Poetic Exchange

Coppola's Conrad: The Repetitions of Complicity
Modern Hard Times: Chaplin and the Cinema of Self-Reflection

The Marquis de Meese
FORUM ON MIKHAIL BAKHTIN: Shouts on the Street: Bakhtin's Anti-Linguistics
Lyric Possesion

The Mind, the Body, and Gertrude Stein
Nancy Reagan Wears a Hat: Feminism and Its Cultural Consensus
Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English
Texts in the Wind

WASPs and Other Endangered Species

Sheldon Sacks: 1930-1979

The Poetics of Surrender: An Exposition and Critique of New Critical Poetics

How to Write Scripture: Words, Authority, and Politics in Thomas Hobbes
CRITICAL RESPONSE: When Is a Text Not a Pretext? A Rejoinder to Victoria Silver

The Cultural Message of Musical Semiology: Some Thoughts on Music, Language, and Criticism Since the Enlightenment
CRITICAL RESPONSE: Tonality, Autonomy, and Competence in Post-Classical Music

Bataille in the Street: The Search for Virility in the 1930s
History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophul's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition

"Form," Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description

CRITICAL RESPONSE: Rational Form in Literature

Publishing History: A Hole at the Centre of Literary Sociology

AFTERTHOUGHTS ON METAPHOR: Toward a Psychology of Metaphor

Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin