ARTICLES
Figures Taken for Signs: Symbol, Allegory, Mise en abyme - Jacob Emery
Pindaric Temporality, Goethe's Augenblick, and the Invariant Plot of Tiutchev's Lyric - Boris Maslov
Talking Like a Book: Exception and the State of Nature in Benjamin and Molière - Christopher Braider
Baudelaire without Benjamin: Contingency, History, Modernity - Sonam Singh
The Everyday's Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein - Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
2012 ACLA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Shipwrecks, Slavery, and the Challenge of Global Comparison: From Fiction to Archive in the Colonial Indian Ocean - Françoise Lionnet
BOOK REVIEWS
Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel by Jonathan Arac - John Plotz
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg - Hillary Gravendyk
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature by Elizabeth Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis / Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins by Moira Fradinger / The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion by Daniel Fuchs - James Dawes
The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature by Ilya Kliger - Jeff Love