This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a radical reassessment of the specificity of literature in distinction from one of its others--namely, philosophy--but above all by taking critical issue with the venerable concept of the "text" and its association with the artisanal techniques of weaving and interlacing. This conception of the text as an artisanal fabric is, the author holds, the unreflected presupposition of both realist, or historicist, and reflective, or "deconstructive," criticism. Gasch argues that "the scenes of production" within literary works, created by their authors yet independent of those authors' intentions, stage a work's own production in virtual fashion and thus accomplish for those works a certain ideal ontological status that allows for both historical endurance and creative interpretation. In Gasch 's construction of these scenes, in which literary works render visible within their own fabric the invisible conditions of their autonomous existence, certain images prevail: the fold, the star, the veil. By showing that these literary images are not simply the opposites of concepts, he not only puts into question the common opposition between literature and philosophy but shows that literary works perform a way of "argumentation" that, in spite of all its difference from philosophical conceptuality, is on a par with it. The argument progresses through close readings of literary works by Lautr amont, Nerval, de l'Isle Adam, Huysman, Flaubert, Artaud, Blanchot, Defoe, and Melville.

Proposes that a distinct strain of literary modernism emerged in Europe in response to historical catastrophe.

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Thomas enters a boarding house, but can't seem to leave.

A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.

Shannon is not the sort of person who is interested in sports or school spirit or really anything that involves other people. And yet, her one friend, her roommate Emma, guilts her into taking part in the blonde out for the big basketball game against Thatcher College’s in-town rivals. That means wearing yellow, which Shannon never does, and dying her black hair blonde. Emma has it all figured out for Shannon. She even buys blonde hair dye for the occasion. But neither of them realize what the effect of using Bimbo Blonde dye will be or how it will change Shannon’s life. However, even the magic of the hair dye might have met its match in Shannon, because the need to stand apart from her fellow classmates remains strong. Just what will happen to Shannon? Will she find happiness to replace her previously sullen attitudes? And how will she continue to stand out from her peers? Find out in Standing Apart. This bimbofication short story is 6,900 words long. It is the second book in Spirit Week Series. This book also features themes of bimboification, bimboization, and bimbification.