... “the question of theory” by exploring “the distinction, in this theoretical moment, between what is and what is not theory” (Weed and Rooney). The present issue returns to the question of the distinction of theory. It takes as its point of departure Galin Tihanov’s recent book The Birth and Death of Literary...

...Teresa de Lauretis TERESA DE LAURETIS Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities An Introduction Ie essays that comprise this issue were generated in the context of a working conference on theorizing lesbian and gay sexualities that was held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in February...

... , 1986 . 210 - 31 . Rose Jacqueline . “ Introduction - II .” Lacan, Feminine Sexuality 27 - 57 . Wilde Oscar . “ The Decay of Lying .” Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's. Ed. Beckson Karl . Chicago : Academy , 1981 . 167 - 94 . Penile Reference in Phallic Theory...

...Mary Caputi Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Adorno Theodor . Aesthetic Theory . Trans. Lenhardt C. . Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1984 . Adorno Theodor . Negative Dialectics...

...Ellen Rooney ELLEN ROONEY What's the Story? Feminist Theory, Narrative, Address Our man, .then, is "behaving as if he were angry. " He scowls, let us say, and stamps his foot on the carpet. So far we may (or perhaps must?) still say "He is not (really) angry: he is (only) pretending to be angry...

...Maria Kalinova This essay focuses on the problem of translation, which Galin Tihanov regards as the afterlife of literary theory in his book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (2019). According to Tihanov, it is exactly through translation...

...Enyo Stoyanov This article highlights how the premises of the radical historicism of Galin Tihanov’s book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019) are conditioned by developments within literary theory itself. For Tihanov, changes in literature’s perceived usefulness undermine the dominance...

...Bogdana Paskaleva At the core of this essay is an exploration of the notion of regime of relevance introduced by Galin Tihanov in his monograph The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019). On the one hand, the author traces the ramifications of Tihanov’s coinage and demonstrates possible arenas...

...Kamelia Spassova In his paper “The Return to Philology,” Paul de Man insists that philology and theory should not be in conflict, but should, rather, mutually enhance one another. This claim that the turn to theory is also a return to philology is explored in the context of the structure...

...Galin Tihanov This essay reflects the author’s interest in understanding the reasons for the growing resistance to theory witnessed over the last couple of decades. The first part attempts to demonstrate that literature and literary theory have been involved in complex dialectical moves between...

...Ellen Rooney Discipline and Vanish: Feminislll, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies ELLEN ROONEY cultural studies is not one thing; it has never been one thing. " (Hall, "Emergence" 11) Headnote (1990) In November of 1988, the National Association of Scholars held...

...Kathy E. Ferguson; Kirstie M. McClure Politics/Power/Culture: PostlDodernity and FelDinist Political Theory prelitninary Rminist political theory - a curious phrase, perhaps for some even striking, if only in its apparent redundancy. Is not feminist theory sufficient? Is it not necessarily...

...Lisa C. Bower "Mother" in Law: Conceptions of Mother and the Maternal in Felllinislll and Felllinist Legal Theory LISA C. BOWER re question ofmotherhood and the maternal is currently a topic of considerable debate within feminist theories. In the 60s, some feminists focused on the family...

...Neil Lazarus NEIL LAZARUS Doubting the New World Order: Marxism, Realism, and the Claims of Postmodernist Social Theory A t the start of his new book, What's Wrong With Postmodernism, Christopher Norris refers to the collapse of historical communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...

...Teresa de Lauretis TERESA DE LAURETIS The Essence of the Triangle or, Taking the Risk of Essentialism Seriously: Feminist Theory in Italy, the U.S., and Britain B pure coincidence, if there were such a thing, returning from a two-month stay in Italy where feminist theory was blooming more...

...R. Radhakrishnan The Changing Subject and the Politics of Theory R. RADHAKRISHNAN How does one change the subject?! Is the "one" the subject that changes itself? What are the limits of such a recursive, auto-transformational project? To playa little on the very phrase, "changing the subject...

... narratives about the legacy of deconstructive theory. Just as Shakespeare's second tetralogy reinforces the submission of pleasure to use and vanity to virtue, so have critics tended to redeem the forms of pleasure for which deconstruction has been routinely vilified. Because the demand for ethical...

...Sylvia Schafer This article reflects on the relief with which mainstream historical scholarship has distanced itself in the last decade or so from serious engagements with the so-called linguistic turn of the later twentieth century. This twenty-first-century repudiation of theory continually...

... of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty’s formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and difference that may be the grounds for a renewed understanding of historical difference. The essay makes a case for the relevance...

...Wendy Brown Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. wendy brown teaches political theory at the University of California, Berkeley...