LITERATURE
Writing of the Formless: Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time JAIME RODRÍGUEZ MATOS
“Deep and dazzling. Writing of the Formless dismantles or powerfully threatens the very basis of much of what today wants to present itself as ‘properly leftist’ thought but also the equally paralyzing liberal-democratic administration of things: both ideologies are anchored in disavowed understandings of temporality. This is a groundbreaking, extraordinary book that will mark a before and after in Latinamericanism.”—Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University 248 PAGES 978-0-8232-7408-6 PAPER, $25.00, £21.99 978-0-8232-7407-9 CLOTH, $90.00, £77.00 LIT Z MODERN LANGUAGE INITIATIVE SI MULTANEO US ELECTRO N I C E D I T I O N AVA I L A BL E
A Scarlet Pansy
ROBERT SCULLY Edited by Robert J. Corber “A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately—through the lens of our queer world today—very moving. Robert J. Corber’s insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange.” —Michael Bronski, Harvard University “A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and sex.” —Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida 232 PAGES 978-0-8232-7256-3 PAPER, $19.95, £16.99 978-0-8232-7255-6 CLOTH, $90.00, £77.00 SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRONIC EDITION AVAILABLE
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics NATHAN BROWN
“The Limits of Fabrication brings an essential argument to discussions concerning the end of art. Where Hegel affirms that poetry accomplishes the dematerialization of aesthetic expression by reducing it to linguistic transparency, Brown on the contrary demonstrates that a poem is always a factory, where meaning is fashioned, even if invisibly, through the crystals, quanta, or nanotubes of language. No metaphorical abstraction in this, but the revelation of the elementary technology at work in words. A strikingly singular, beautiful, and important book.”—Catherine Malabou, author of The New Wounded 312 PAGES, 61 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS 978-0-8232-7299-0 CLOTH, $40.00, £34.00 IDIOM: INVENTING WRITING THEORY AMERICAN LITERATURES INITIATIVE SI MULTANEO US ELECTRO N I C E D I T I O N AVA I L A BL E
LAW
The John F. Sonnett Memorial Lectures at Fordham University School of Law A Half-Century of Advocacy and Judicial Perspectives Edited by Dennis J. Kenny and Joel E. Davidson Foreword by John D. Feerick
Contributors: Aharon Barak, Griffin Bell, Warren Burger, Benjamin Civiletti, Tom Clark, William T. Coleman, Lawrence H. Cooke, Ole Due, Wilfred Feinberg, Thomas Finlay, John J. Gibbons, Liam Hamilton, Dennis Jacobs, Leon Jaworski, Irving Kaufman, Judith S. Kaye, James MacKay, Robert Megarry, William Hughes Mulligan, Francis T. Murphy, Cearball O’Dalaigh, Kate O’Regan, Lawrence W. Pierce, Robert Sheran, Kenneth Starr, Sol Wachtler, John Widgery
“In the Sonnett series, the leaders of legal profession grapple seriously and well, over a period of two generations, with issues that are central to the critical work that lawyers and judges do. It is an important collection from the vantage point of legal history and from the avantage point of legal thought.”—William Michael Treanor, Georgetown Law School 480 PAGES 978-0-8232-7664-6 CLOTH, $75.00, £65.00 SI MULTANEO US ELECTRO N I C E D I T I O N AVA I L A BL E
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