Table of Contents
Introduction: Overload
Goethe’s Backpack
To Hate Shepherds: Letter to an American Friend about a Jules Verne Story (or Why Technological Objects Sometimes Complicate Our Lives)
American Beauty Busted: Necromedia and Domestic Discipline
The Afterlife of Art and Objects: Alain Cavalier’s Therese
Involvement, Interruption, and Inevitability: Melancholy as an Aesthetic Principle in Game Narratives
Nothing Added, Nothing Subtracted
The Last Straw
Infinite Archives
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life (review)
Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing Between Worlds (review)
Magister Amoris: The “Roman de la Rose” and Vernacular Hermeneutics (review)
A Musical Model of Mind
Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others (review)