Essays

Essays, 1992-2003

"The Culture Wars, Pornography, and State Power," in A Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture, ed. Josephine Hendin (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002) (commissioned article.)

"New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions," in The Public Intellectual, ed. Helen Small, Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. (Commissioned article)

"American Psycho: An Interview with Mary Harron," Film Quarterly 54:2, (Winter, 2000-2001):41-45.

"Orlan in Paris, 2000," in Interfaces: Women's Visual and Performance Autobiography, ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, Univ. of Michigan Press, 2002 (commissioned article).

"Cutups in Beauty School," in Thinking the Limits of the Body, ed. Jeffrey Cohen and Gail Weiss, SUNY Press, 2003 (commissioned article).

"Not a Love Story: New Epistolary Directions," in Epistolarly Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture, ed. Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven, Univ. Press of Virginia, 2000: 198-216 (commissioned article).

"Response to Clare Brant," in Epistolarly Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture, ed. Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven, Univ. Press of Virginia, 2000: 92-98 (commissioned article).

"Bob Flanagan’s Visiting Hours and Last Rites," in Performance Research: A Journal of Performing Arts, 3:3 Winter 1998.

"Bob Flanagan: Supermasochism and Sadomedicine," in Getting a Life: the Everyday Uses of Autobiography in Postmodern America, ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, U. Minnesota Press, l996 (commissioned article).

"Dangerous Liaisons: Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse and Jacques Derrida's The Post Card," in Postmodern Representations: Truth, Power, and Mimesis in the Human Sciences and Public Culture, ed. Richard Harvey Brown, Univ. of Illinois Press, l995 (commissioned article).

"The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony or, An Infant Grifter Grows Up," in Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Gayle Greene and Coppélia Kahn, Routledge, l993 (commissioned article); rpr. Feminisms, 2nd ed. Diane Price Herndl and Robin Warhol, Rutgers Univ. Press, l996.

"The Golden Notebook: Anna Wulf's Schizoanalysis," in Theorizing Feminist Writing Practices, ed. Elizabeth A. Meese and Alice Parker, John Benjamins, l992 (commissioned article).

"Special Delivery: Twenty-first Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale," in Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, ed. Elizabeth Goldsmith (Northeastern Univ. Press, l989); rpr. "Courage and Tools:" The Florence Howe Award Essays, l975-l990, Modern Language Association Press, l990.

"Framing Lolita," in Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy, ed. Patricia Yaeger and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, l989 (commissioned article); rpr. Major Literary Characters: Lolita, ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House.

"Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!," Modern Fiction Studies, 29:2 (Summer 1983), l83-200; rpr. in Feminisms: Gender and Literary Studies, ed. Diane Price-Herndl and Robyn Warhol, Rutgers Univ. Press, l992.

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