Christopher Looby's anthology of queer nineteenth-century American short stories is a fascinating collection both obscure and familiar texts that together constitute powerful argument for the queerness story centrality to literary aesthetics.

This article suggests a conceptual reflection on narrativity and its role in different cultural spheres. Therefore, dialogue between three traditions is proposed: literary, anthropological cognitive, to bring some elements of the cognitive paradigm closer tradition literary studies, theory authors that could be identified with philosophical anthropology. approach pretends critically examine con...

Stylistics is the proper study of literature. We mean this in several senses. Firstly, it is fit and apt. It is special and specialised. It is delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument. And for the evaluative sense of ‘proper’, we also do mean to suggest that it is ethically superior to other, non-stylistic forms of literary study. We insist that any approa...

doing justice to Freud's text, to Schreber's text, and to a few others, less memorable, besides, Chabot baulks at the prospect of writing the history of the real, whether it be of psychoanalysis or of individual texts-all he allows psychoanalysis to aspire to is the narrative history of fiction, in place of the historical reconstruction of (psychic) reality. Reading as a literary critic does, r...