...Sophus Helle Abstract The article proposes a new definition of philology as a systematic engagement with crises of reading, focused on the difficulties that prevent readers from gaining access to or drawing meaning from a given text, all the way from scrubbed signs to obscure ontologies. Responding...

... Analysis,Theory, and Interpretation (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of many books, including Reading ‘‘Rembrandt Beyond the Word-Image Opposition Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis...

.... Considering the ongoing existential environmental and ecological crises, and the growing consensus that these are bound up with a profound crisis of the imagination, this volume is not only an important but indeed a necessary book, which speaks to the most urgent questions of our times. Before outlining...

..., subordinated subject who has given up her own agency (76). In the third essay, Masks, Security, and the Language of Numbers, Asad argues that the modern nation-state maintains itself through paranoid read- ings of potential treason, and that state power derives from risk-management strategies which depend...

... ideological maxim. It proceeds to emphasize the connection of doxa to the question of stereotype and its crucial role in the process of reading. Doxa can be assimilated to ideological stereotypes and, as such, does not reduce to content inscribed in the text; it also functions as a tool in meaning...

... Fellow, University of Glasgow (2010 – 13). He is the author of Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 – 1900) et la crise fin de sie`cle anglaise (1995), “As You Like It”; ou, Le palimpseste du Sens (1997), and Richard III: Dramaturgie des ambigu¨ıte´s (1999). He has edited and coedited several volumes...

... to aspects of life, my own and others’, that I usually ignore 7. Self-Modifying Reading during Personal Crises Not all readers engage in this form of reading; in fact, in our phenomeno- logical study of expressive enactment, only a minority do (24 of 198 com- mentaries, distributed among nine of forty...

...Eyal Segal Phelan James , Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010 . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2013 . viii + 270 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds., On Voice. Amsterdam: Rodopi...

... Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims to “explain and apply a trenchant approach...

... University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims...

... Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims to “explain and apply a trenchant approach...

... University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims...

... University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims...

..., Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims to “explain and apply a trenchant...

..., Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims to “explain and apply a trenchant...

..., Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-3452976 James Phelan, Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2013. viii 1270 pp. This book in the series Reading the Novel aims to “explain and apply a trenchant...

...: Roof). Eribon, Didier 1991 Michel Foucault , translated by Betsy Wing (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Eskin, Blake 2003 A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski (New York:Norton). Felman, Shoshanna, and Dori Laub 1992 Testimony: Crises of Witnessing...

...Karin Kukkonen Abstract Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against a simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital...

... of the visual sign and the aural fragment in order to investigate the “templet noise / between each word,” Roberson's poems attempt to refigure the visual practices of reading and writing in ways that can bring unclaimed experiences and traumatic histories into public, collective memory. Although his work...

..., in Spinoza it predates it), but its more recent history is tied to seismic geopolitical crises — the collapse of actually existing socialism, for example — and the increasingly intense neoliberal paroxysms of bubble and burst. It is also redolent, I would argue, in the emerging and vexed evaluations...