...Birgit Mara Kaiser Abstract Focusing on Hélène Cixous’s OR les lettres de mon père (1997), the article considers how a prominent work of the “linguistic turn” already works with the entanglement of matter and meaning. Cixous foregrounds the materiality of language, showing it is indispensable...

... between text and context by analyzing the capacity of anachronistic discourse to collapse the boundaries between a literary work's internal means of reference and its external referential compass. Because the aesthetically productive temporal fissures that anachronism produces are not limited to any...

... language becomes meaningful primarily through his struggle with it, Ponge needs to experience language as difficult and non-compliant rather than perfectly suited or readily adaptable to his expressive endeavors. Speaking of the need to “foncer à travers les paroles, malgré les paroles, les entraîner...

..., versus a semiotic philosophy that would potentially circumscribe all discourses including discourse on systems. The cybernetic categories of matter/energy, information, and organization in forms of relative openness and closure are used to offer a counter-reading of Derrida's concepts of writing (gramme...

...Christopher Peterson Abstract This article explores the unstable distinction between “who” and “what” in Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! The story’s moral that “a person’s a person no matter how small” has often been read as atoning for the racist cartoons that Geisel drew of the Japanese during World...

...-materialist theories that buttress ancient reflection, matter is not “merely” matter. It is, rather, always and unavoidably aesthetic: it is defined as an object of perception or aisthesis. Porter does not mean by this that matter is simply what we perceive. Rather, there is a close, and costly, link...

... on demand. At the same time, these new means of circulation ignited novel ways of telling stories, forging poetry, blending the arts, and creating fresh combinations out of apparently separate media forms. In this introduction, I briefly sketch the eternal return of matter and materiality in the humanities...

...-materialist theories that buttress ancient reflection, matter is not “merely” matter. It is, rather, always and unavoidably aesthetic: it is defined as an object of perception or aisthesis. Porter does not mean by this that matter is simply what we perceive. Rather, there is a close, and costly, link...

... be carefully distinguished; for many of the materialist or quasi-materialist theories that buttress ancient reflection, matter is not “merely” matter. It is, rather, always and unavoidably aesthetic: it is defined as an object of perception or aisthesis. Porter does not mean by this that matter is simply...

...: In equating blackness with infinity and capturing the rare (“of which something consists”) and the obsolete (“substance without form”) meanings of matter, I claim a radical praxis of refusal to contain blackness in the dialectical form. Though Frantz Fanon’s refusal of dialectics is the most celebrated, I...

... with particu- lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It explains the sense...

... to the immediate task of reading Derrida’s essay, we have no choice but to continue registering the coincidence of meaningfulness and meaninglessness that each instance of p-a-s-s imposes upon us, but doing so neither confirms our ability to progress to a new level of understanding, nor definitively reveals...

... features of the last two centuries of the French Middle Ages with particu- lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to present a contemporary view of literary vernacular...

... with particu- lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It explains the sense...

... with particu- lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It explains the sense...

... with particu- lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It explains the sense...

...ERIC HAYOT University of Oregon 2005 Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 . Derrida, Jacques. Le monolinguisme de l'autre: ou la prothèse d'origine . Paris: Galilée, 1996 . ____. Monolingualism...

... this example in the spirit of so dwelling with Alford, which means finding pleasure and meaningful distinction in the small. Simply note how description shifts registers here, from sound to sight, and from declension to resignation. Language is given its body back, its charged movements felt in one’s own...

... 1970s, she revised some of her earlier conclusions, and in 1993 she published a book on the meaning of defilement in the Book of Numbers. Now she has returned to Leviticus with a new and often startlingly original reading that partially overturns her own earlier chap- ter. The title of her book...

... fields of anthropology. In the early 1970s, she revised some of her earlier conclusions, and in 1993 she published a book on the meaning of defilement in the Book of Numbers. Now she has returned to Leviticus with a new and often startlingly original reading that partially overturns her own earlier...