The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer’s Iliad imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking “soldier” with “hero” in Western culture. Tracing Achilles’ appearances…

During their lives, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were two of France’s most prominent thinkers, and their work continues to be a vital and influential part of critical theory. The…

The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized as an unimportant, even uncritical mode of writing. But as Eleanor Kaufman argues in The Delirium…

Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre,…

In Visual Occupations Gil Z. Hochberg shows how the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be…

Partition–the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines–is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread “separatist imagination” behind partition, Gil…

The cultural forms often referred to as ?baroque? are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe?s effort to mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political authority…

Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso is one of the masterpieces of the Renaissance, a work which, many argue, signalled the apogee of Renaissance fancy on the precipice of irony and decline. This collection…

Building on the intellectual and historical context of Darwin’s theory of evolution and its concomitant questioning of a divine father, this book analyzes dramatic and narrative representations of crises in…

Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the works of Per Olov Enquist and discusses the writer’s central themes and the imagery and motifs he uses to develop them. This…