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Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
S/z
Imperial Eyes
The World, the Text, and the Critic
The Gothic
Secular Scripture
Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Creation and Recreation
Walter Benjamin
Theory As Practice
Inhuman Citizenship
The Jewel-hinged Jaw
Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Latinx Literature Unbound
Omnicide
The Lyric Theory Reader
The Other Synaesthesia
Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory
A Fictional Commons
Narratives of Nothing in 20th-century Literature
Beginning Theory
The Politics of Style
German Literature As World Literature
Understanding David Foster Wallace
Distant Reading
The Antinomies of Realism
Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination
Allegory and Ideology
In the Dust of This Planet
Crisis and Criticism