Volume 1, Number 1

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The inaugural issue of symplokē, featuring essays pooling the resources of various disciplines with the aim of establishing interconnectedness in research.

Contents

Matei Calinescu
Modernity,Modernism, Modernization: Variations on Modern Themes

Andrew Stein
The Use and Abuse of History: Habermas’ MisReading of Bataille

Phillip Johansen
Constructed Identity

Lahcen Haddad
Cultural Studies and the Questions of Reading and Spectatorship

Warren Lewis
Patron Saints of Reader-Response Criticism