By tracing the imprisoned figure on several philosophic, aesthetic and socio-political levels, this collection treats Kafka's cages as the very critique of a culture that first posits a clear-cut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up the latter as unattain…
"In Persons and Things, Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutio…
"Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, Andre Gide, and Colette…
