Selected Publications
Selected publications from faculty in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
In Press
How to Do Things with Fictions. New York: Oxford University Press, In Press.
2012
Konoshiko, a graphic novel (with Luc Giard). Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2012.
Ends of Enlightenment. Stanford UP, 2012.
Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
The Cinema of Tarkovsky: Labyrinths of Space and Time. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.
2011
"Unsichtbare Wolken. Eine Poetik der Latenz und Nuance." Latenz: Blinde Passagiere in den Geisteswissenschaften. Florian Klinger and H.U. Gumbrecht (Eds.). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. 135-147.
"Archéologie d’un gros plan: sémiologie du sexe imprimé." Obscenity in Renaissance France. Geneva: Droz, 2011.
"The Anatomy of Gender: Decoding Petrarchan Lyrics (Labé, Scève, Ronsard)." Approaches to Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Editor Colette Winn. MLA, 2011. 218-229.
Buvons, buvons et moquons-nous du reste. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.
Dans la peau de Tintin. Paris: Les Impressions nouvelles, 2011.
Buvons, buvons et moquous – nous du reste – a book and a film (in collaboration with Bertrand Renaudineau). Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.
Héroïsme et victimisation. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2011.
Understanding advanced second-language reading. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press , 2011.
Four Point Listening and Speaking Intro: English for Academic Purposes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press , 2011.
TESOL Technology Standards: Description, Implementation, Integration. Alexandria : Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc, 2011.
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011.
"Intertextual Visions of the Potudan." The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. 59-73.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
2010
"Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis: Beckett and Flaubert on Feeling Nothing." The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 28-38.
"Intervenções." Luiz Costa Lima. Um Obra em Questão. Dau Bastos (Ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Garamond Editora, 2010. 313-336.
The metamorphoses of Tintin, or, Tintin for adults. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Freedom or terror : Europe faces Jihad. Stanford Calif.: Hoover Institution Press Stanford University, 2010.
The Novel and the Sea. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010.
The Enlightenment: A Genealogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
The Super-Enlightenment: Daring to Know too Much. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010.
Dostoevsky : a writer in his time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
California grafitti : Bilder vom westlichen Ende der Welt. München: Carl Hanser, 2010.
Éloge de la présence : ce qui échappe à la signification. Paris: Libella {;Maren} Sell, 2010.
Mente y materia. ¿Qué es la vida?. Buenos Aires: ed. 191 páginas, 11 x 17 cm., 2010.
"Three Visions of China in the Contemporary Latin American Novel." One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 150-171.
The culture of diagram. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Ancient models of mind : studies in human and divine rationality. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Grimm language : grammar, gender and genuineness in the fairy tales. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.
América Latina en 130 películas. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar Editores, 2010.
"Onetti 101: Nuevo Texto Crítico Vol. XXIII, 45-46." (Edition). 2010.
Wandering soul : the Dybbuk's creator, S. An-sky. Cambridge Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
"'XX Century' (1985) [The Theme of Death in Erkin Mergenov's Self-Portrait as an Astronaut]." 14 Essays Inspired by the Sculptures of Erkin Mergenov. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2010. 82-92.
Armour and masculinity in the Italian Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
"Three Visions of China in the Contemporary Latin American Novel." One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. 2010.
2009
Theodore Kaczynski: Le Manifeste de 1971 et L'avenir de la société industrielle (preface and translation). Paris: Editions Climats, 2009.
"Zwillingshafte Gebärden" : zur kulturellen Wahrnehmung des vierhändigen Klavierspiels im 19. Jahrhundert. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009.
On the origins of cognitive science : the mechanization of the mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
La marque du sacré. Paris: Carnets nord, 2009.
Dans l'oeil du cyclone : colloque de Cerisy. Paris: Carnets Nord, 2009.
The Terror of Natural Right : Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Встреча русской эмиграции с “Доктором Живаго”: Борис Пастернак и “холодная война”. Vol. 38. Vstrecha russkoi ėmigratsii s "Doktorom Zhivago" : Boris Pasternak i "kholodnaia voina", 38. Stanford: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures Stanford University, 2009.
The life of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Vol. 37. Stanford {CA}: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures Stanford University, 2009.
The enigma of Isaac Babel : biography, history, context. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Die Marburger Geisteswissenschaften 1926 & 2009 : Reden zur Feier der Ehrenpromotion von Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Marburg, 15. Januar 2009. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009.
The nineteenth- and twentieth-century tradition of (academic) literary studies : Can it set an agenda for today ?. Manchester: Univeristy of Manchester Institute for Transnational Studies in Languages Linguistics and Culture Manchester Spanish Portuguese and Latin Ameican Studies, 2009.
Pokhvala krasote sporta. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2009.
The Re-Enchantment of the world: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
"The Birth of Ideology from the Spirit of Myth: Georges Sorel among the Idéologues." The Re-enchantement of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Empire lost : France and its other worlds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.
Del hispanismo a los estudios ibéricos : una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2009.
Negationism and freedom of speech. Manchester: Manchester Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2009.
Maranhão-Manhattan : ensaios de literatura brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2009.
Víctor Gaviria, los márgenes al centro.. 2nd edition. Madrid: Turner, 2009.
Speed limits. Milan, Italy; Miami Beach, FL; Montréal, Québec Canada: Skira; Wolfsonian-Florida International University; Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2009.
Temps des crises. Paris: Pommier, 2009.
Écrivains, savants et philosophes font le tour du monde. Paris: Pommier, 2009.
2008
"A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction." Art and Ethical Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 63-94.
L'audience : roman familial. Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
Blood orgies : Hermann Nitsch in America. Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2008.
Kleist por H.U. Gumbrecht.. Vitoria da Conquista, 2008.
Geist und Materie : was ist Leben? : zur Aktualität von Erwin Schrödinger. 1. Aufl., Originalausg. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008.
Stimmungen in den Bildern von Caspar David Friedrich : ein Lob des Greifswalder Lichts als Dank an die Universität Greifswald : Ehrenpromotion. Greifswald {[Germany]}: Rektor der {Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität}, 2008.
Contra las buenas intenciones. México {D.F.}: Tumbona, 2008.
Ti yu zhi mei: wei ren lei de shen ti he cai. Di 1 ban. ed. Shanghai: Shi ji chu ban ji tuan Shanghai ren min chu ban she, 2008.
Gardens : an essay on the human condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, dans l'œil du cyclone : colloque de Cerisy. Paris: Carnets nord, 2008.
La vocació de modernitat de Barcelona : auge i declivi d'una imatge urbana. Barcelona: Galàxia Gutenberg {;Cercle} de Lectors, 2008.
Burning darkness : a half century of Spanish cinema. Albany: {SUNY} Press, 2008.
El cine de Patricio Guzmán, en busca de las imágenes verdaderas. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar Editores, 2008.
Dostoevsky's democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Italiamerica : l'editoria. Milano: Il saggiatore; Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, 2008.
Lifeˆn. San Francisco: Hotwire Productions, 2008.
Le mal propre : polluer pour s'approprier?. Paris: Pommier, 2008.
La guerre mondiale. Paris: Le Pommier, 2008.
The five senses : a philosophy of mingled bodies. London: Continuum, 2008.
Trauma and cinema : cross-cultural explorations. Pbk. ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
2007
Politique des “Amours”: Poétique et genèse d’un genre français nouveau (1544-1560). Geneva: Droz, 2007.
"L’Arbre et la Branche: croissance du recueil et défense de la langue française dans 'L’Olive' (1549-1550)." Joachim Du Bellay: une révolution poétique dans les années 1549-1550. Paris: PUF, 2007. 35-57.
A Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Fiction sets you free : literature, liberty, and western culture. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2007.
Œuvre poétique intégrale. Lyon: J. André, 2007.
Myth and Modernity. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007.
Elogio da beleza atlética. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2007.
A future university without humanities?. Yokohama :, 2007.
El cine nómada de Cristián Sánchez. Santiago, Chile: Uqbar Editores, 2007.
Culture front : representing Jews in Eastern Europe. Philadelphia Pa. {;Bristol}: University of Pennsylvania Press {;;University} Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007.
Carpaccio : les esclaves libérés. Paris: Pommier, 2007.