Contents > Vol 54, Issue 1

Special Issue: The State of Literary History

Articles
Dialectics Pro and Contra
Author		Title
Lawrence Lipking		"A Trout in the Milk"
Denis Hollier		"On Literature Considered as a Dead Language"
Virgil Nemoianu		"Literary History: Some Roads Not (Yet) Taken"
Charles Altieri		"Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness"
Annabel Patterson		"More Speech on Free Speech"

Identities and Roles
Author		Title
R. Howard Bloch		"The Once and Future Middle Ages"
Meredith Anne Skura		"Understanding the Living and Talking to the Dead: The Historicity of Psychoanalysis"
Peter Stallybrass		"Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Jonathan Arac		"What Is the History of Literature?"
Walter Benn Michaels		"The Victims of New Historicism"
Marjorie Perloff		"Empiricism Once More"

The Reader's Part
Author		Title
David Perkins		"Some Prospects for Literary History"
Doris Sommer		"Textual Conquests: On Readerly Competence and 'Minority' Literature"
Richard Dellamora		"Textual Politics/Sexual Politics"
Jermore J. McGann		"Literature, Meaning, and the Discontinuity of Fact"

Coda: The End of Literary History
Author		Title
Paul H. Fry		"The Hum of Literature: Ostension in Language"