Contents

Contributors

Introduction: New Critical Thinking – To Read so as to Become Acquainted

Julian Wolfreys

1Turnings and Re-Turnings

Mary Ann Caws

2‘Peering into the dark machinery’: Modernity, Perception and the Self in John Burnside’s Poetry

Monika Szuba

3Modernity’s Sylvan Subjectivity, from Gainsborough to Gallaccio

Catherine Bernard

4Little Did They Know: Toward an Experiential Approach to the Theory of History

Sarah Pardon

5‘The Heart cannot forget / Unless it contemplate / What it declines’: Emily Dickinson, Frank Ankersmit and the Art of Forgetting

Páraic Finnerty

6Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning

Anton Froeyman

7Writing Fiction, Making History: Historical Narrative and the Process of Creating History

Christine Berberich

8Witnessing, Recognition and Response Ethics

Kelly Oliver

9A Norwegian Abroad: Camilla Collett’s Travelogues from Berlin and Paris

Tone Selboe

10Alfred Jarry’s Nietzschean Modernism

Jean-Michel Rabaté

11On First Looking into Derrida’s Glas

J. Hillis Miller

12‘A very black and little Arab Jew’: Experience and Experimentation or, Two Words for Jacques Derrida

Julian Wolfreys

Index