Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography

Arts & Photography

Nichols, Stephen G.

History & Criticism

Yale Univ Pr

Formulaic Diction and Thematic Composition in the Chanson de Roland (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 36)

Literature & Fiction

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies

is a critical collection focusing on the intersections of art, history, literature, philosophy, and theory. It is this fifth term, “theory,” that marked the volume’s significance during the early 1980s—a time of heightened conflict over the newly emerging role of “theory” in the humanities. As Stephen G. Nichols notes in his new preface, “[s]ince so much poststructuralist thought has focused on representation, it was natural, if not inevitable, for scholars involved in the project to turn to mimesis, representation as imitation, for a concept that bridged the historical and the contemporary.” This, of course, has not been the first time that mimesis has played a key role in “bridging” an intellectual divide. The onto-theological dimension of Medieval thought brings together the Judeo-Christian Creator and the Platonic-Aristotelian metaphysics of Being as just one instance of the importance of mimesis in conjoining philosophical divisions.  From Eugene Vance’s exploration of Augustine’s metaphysics to Timothy J. Reiss’s discussion of representation and modern political theory,  offers a truly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging historical inquiry into a foundational concept in the arts, literature, and philosophy. First published in an era in which “theory” was portrayed as the antithesis of humanistic study, this collection provides a necessary account of a new synthesis of the humanities and theoretical inquiry. With the persisting tensions within the humanities now over the future of theory,  recaptures a critical element in this long debate, providing a sophisticated analysis of mimesis and demonstrating a unique theoretical method of scholarship.

Mimesis: From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes

Lyons, John D.

Dartmouth College

History

Europe

The Davies Group, Publishers

<p>Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was one of the most influential humanistic thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in the late 1960s, his most widely recognized concept of “deconstruction,” inspired by Nietzschean and Heideggerian philosophies, transformed the fields of continental philosophy, theology, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and literary studies, and ushered in more generally the current “age of theory” in the arts and humanities. The essays and interviews assembled in Divisible Derridas focus on key terms and concepts from Derrida’s philosophical “archive” and their relevance to current conversations across disciplines. Derrida’s enormous and continuing influence in the humanities is a major area of scholarship, and this volume provides a critical framework for understanding the history, applicability, and dynamism of major Derridean concepts, especially those that have informed new fields of inquiry. Moreover, the Derridean philosophical “archive” is a divisible, multiple, and living space. Scholars from across the humanities and in new fields of inquiry are finding new meaning in and relevance of Derrida’s thought and recently available posthumous work. Divisible Derridas’ featured essays by and interviews are by leading scholars who have worked closely with Derridean texts. Representing a wide range of interests, these contributors provide a historical context for major concepts and themes in Derrida’s work as well possible new trajectories of this established archive and newly available work in the future. Divisible Derridas will be of interest to scholars from many areas of humanistic research as well as advanced graduate students working on interdisciplinary research.</p>

Divisible Derridas (Emergence)

Politics & Social Sciences

Taylor, Victor E.

Philosophy

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