Personhood and other objects: the figural dispute with philosophy by Judith Butler
"Barbara Johnson" by Barbara Johnson
Reading theory as literature, literature as theory
The critical difference: Barthes/Balzac
Translator's introduction to dissemination (abridged)
Poetry and syntax: what the gypsy knew
A hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove: obscurity in walden
Strange fits: poe and wordsworth on the nature of poetic language
The frame of reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida
Euphemism, understatement, and the passive voice: a genealogy of Afro-American poetry
Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in their eyes were watching God
Moses and intertexuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible
Lesbian spectacles: reading Sula, passing, Thelma and Louise, and the accused
Bringing out D. A. Miller
Language, personhood, ethics
Introduction to freedom and interpretation (abridged)
Apostrophe, animation, and abortion
Anthropomorphism in lyric and law
Using people: kant with winnicott
Melville's fist: the execution of Billy Budd
Nothing fails like success
Teaching deconstructively
Poison or remedy? Paul de man as pharmakon
Taking fidelity philosophically
The task of the translator
Teaching ignorance: l'ecole des femmes
Afterword: Barbara's signature by Shoshana Felman.
