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To supplement ON FORM, A 25th Anniversary Collection (Representations 104, Fall 2008), we present here selections from
some of the most salient—and in some cases paradigm-changing—interventions on this topic from our back pages.
From the beginning, writes editorial co-chair Thomas Laqueur in Representations 104, the journal's editors were
"engaged passionately with what are traditionally taken to be formalist questions." Indeed, the New Historicist
turn that developed under Representations' aegis was significantly concerned with the formal aspects of literary
and historical phenomena. The selections offered here, all published originally in Representations by scholars who
have served as journal editors, show the centrality of formal questions to our interdisciplinary project. Whether
form is the subject or the method of study, in each excerpt it can be seen as a productive key to late twentieth-century
scholarship and as a genealogical link to the journal's concerns in the new millennium.
To view the full text of articles from which these selections have been excerpted, please visit http://www.ucpressjournals.com,
http://www.jstor.org, or your local university library for print and digital back issues.
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Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's |
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Interpretation without Representation, or, the Viewing of Las Meninas |
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The Fabliaux, Fetishism, and Freud's Jewish Jokes |
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A Bugle, A Bell, A Stroke of the Tongue: Rethinking Music in Modern French Verse |
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Rape and the Rise of the Novel |
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Shakespeare's "Perjur'd Eye" |
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Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion |
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Hercules and the Radical Image in the French Revolution |
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Collective Memory and the Actual Past |
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An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life |
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Theories of Constitutional Interpretation |
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"Democracy and Burnt Cork": The End of Blackface, the Beginning of Civil Rights |
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What Was Wrong with Minos? Thucydides and Historical Time |
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