Table of Contents

The Question of Poetic Meaning
By John Gibson, University of Louisville

The Motive for Metonymy (A Parochial Theme in Two Parts)
By Jennifer Ashton, UIC

On Going On: Rules, Inferences and Literary Conditions
By Paul Grimstad, Yale University

Confiance au Monde; or, The Poetry of Ease
By Oren Izenberg, UIC

Overlooking in Stendhal
By Jami Bartlett, University of California, Irvine

Quarrelsome: Response to Camp, Harold, and Chodat
By Jonathan Kramnick, Rutgers University

Wittgenstein, the Human Face, and the Expressive Content of Poetry: On Bernard Rhie and Magdalena Ostas
By Garry L Hagberg, Bard College

nonsite.org is a quarterly journal of art, philosophy and politics affiliated with Emory University. It is edited by Jennifer Ashton, Todd Cronan, Michael Fried, Oren Izenberg, Brian Kane, Ruth Leys, Walter Benn Michaels, Charles Palermo, Robert Pippin, Victoria H.F. Scott, and James Welling.

nonsite.org emerges in part out of interest in a set of theoretical topics – the ontology of the work of art, the question of intentionality, the imperative to historicize, the ongoing appeal of different and sometimes competing materialisms – and in part out of opposition to the dominant accounts of those topics.

Today, the various theoretical forms of neoliberalism – from the postmodern to the posthuman, from the new historicism to the new pluralism – have become so pervasive that they are nearly invisible. nonsite.org seeks first to make them visible and then to make them less pervasive. Our goal is to criticize what is and replace it with what we think ought to be.

The site contains a peer-reviewed quarterly journal with editorials, reviews, poetry and other features, including “the tank,” an on-line forum for solicited work in progress and for comment on it.