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Stacy Alaimo, "Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self" (Indiana UP, 2010)

July 8, 2013

Bodily Natures

Stacy Alaimo
Hosted by Brandon Fiedor

In her book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), Stacy Alaimo approaches the concepts of "sc…

Amir Eshel, "Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past" (U Chicago Press, 2013)

January 22, 2013

Futurity

Amir Eshel
Hosted by Brandon Fiedor

In his very recent work, Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past(University of Chicago Press, 2013), Amir Eshel presents us with …

Nicholas De Villiers, "Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol" (U Minnesota Press, 2012)

January 11, 2013

Opacity and the Closet

Nicholas de Villiers
Hosted by Brandon Fiedor

In his book, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Nicholas de Villiers takes …

Avner Baz, "When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy" (Harvard UP, 2012)

October 31, 2012

When Words Are Called For

Avner Baz
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In When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2012), Avner Baz sets out to make a case for the re…

Ulrich Plass, "Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature" (Routledge, 2007)

September 25, 2012

Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's <i>Notes to Literature</i>

Ulrich Plass
Hosted by Brandon Fiedor

In Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature (Routledge, 2007), Ulrich Plass makes the case for the importance and relevance of …

J. Hillis Miller, "The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz" (U Chicago Press, 2011)

August 23, 2012

The Conflagration of Community

J. Hillis Miller
Hosted by Brandon Fiedor

In his recent book, The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz (University of Chicago Press, 2011), J. Hillis Miller sets outs…

Wendy Steiner, "The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art" (U Chicago Press, 2010)

July 16, 2012

The Real Real Thing

Wendy Steiner
Hosted by Brandon Fiedor

As the last of what Wendy Steiner refers to as "a loose trilogy" with her earlier works, The Scandal of Pleasure (1995) and Venus in Exile (2001), The…