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Corporeal Aesth/ethics: The Body in Bracha L. Ettinger’s Theory and Art

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Can we think of an ethics that originates in corporeality, and not in codified or symbolic systems? In Corporeal Aesth/ethics, the body resurfaces as a central category of Bracha L. Ettinger’s theory and art, and ...

Echo Otherwise: A Poetics of Sound and Loss in Ancient and Contemporary Poetry

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At the heart of this book is a story about reading, about reading and pedagogy, about pedagogy’s readers, about readers who listen, listening while reading, about poems and their sonic materials, about the demands that ...

Alone in the Dark: Cinephilia and the Heroic Imagination

Alone in the Dark is an experimental memoir – or perhaps, more accurately, an anti-memoir or fabulist memoir, some unruly combination of essay, prose poem, and floating reverie that examines the relationship between one’s cultural ...

In Defense of Don Giovanni: A Feminist Mythobiography

Who wants to champion the figure of Don Giovanni in the time of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo? Don Giovanni is a rapist, murderer, serial seducer, and liar. Can he ever be held up as a ...

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