Jan Baetens "Novelization, a Contaminated Genre?"
Fritz Breithaupt "Trauma in Romanticism"
Jennifer Fleissner "Doubting"
Miriam Hansen "The Aura"
Lawrence Kramer "Music, Knowledge, and Critical Inquiry"
Jerome McGann "Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing
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Mark McGurl "Pluralisms in Postwar Fiction"
Richard Neer "Connoisseurship and the Stakes of Style"
François Jullien "Of Evil or the Negative"
Georg Stanitzek "Texts and Paratexts in Media"
Linda Williams "On Kisses and Ellipses"
Slavoj Zizek "A Plea for a Return to Differance"
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