Table of Contents:
  • Labyrinth of incarnations: the esays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Sense and sensibility: on R.P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E.D. Hirsch
  • Amateur of the insoluble: on E.M. Cioran
  • A standing civil war: on T.E. Lawrence
  • Arabic prose and prose fiction after 1948
  • Between chance and determinism: Lukács's Aesthetik
  • Conrad and Nietzsche
  • Vico on the discipline of bodies and texts
  • Tourism among the dogs: on George Orwell
  • Bitter dispatches from the Third World
  • Grey Eminence: on Walter Lippmann
  • Among the believers: on V.S. Naipaul
  • Opponents, audiences, constituencies, and community
  • Bursts of meaning: on John Berger and Jean Mohr
  • Egyptian rites
  • The future of criticism
  • Reflections on exile
  • Michel Foucault, 1927-1984
  • Orientalism reconsidered
  • Remembrances of things played: presence and memory in the pianist's art: on Glenn Gould
  • How not to get gored: on Ernest Hemingway
  • Foucault and the imagination of power
  • The horizon of R.P. Blackmur
  • Cairo recalled: growing up in the cultural crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt
  • Through gringo eyes: with Conrad in Latin America
  • The quest for Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Representing the colonized: anthropology's interlocutors
  • After Mahfouz
  • Jungle calling: on Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan
  • Cairo and Alexandria
  • Homage to a belly-dancer: on Tahia Carioca
  • Introduction to Moby-Dick
  • The politics of knowledge
  • Identity, authority, and freedom: the potentate and the traveler
  • The Anglo-Arab encounter: on Ahdaf Soueif
  • Nationalism, human rights, and interpretation
  • Traveling theory reconsidered
  • History, literature, and geography
  • Contra mundum: on Eric Hobsbawm
  • Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift
  • Fantasy's role in the making of nations: on Jacqueline Rose
  • On defiance and taking positions
  • From silence to sound and back again: music, literature, and history
  • On lost causes
  • Between worlds
  • The clash of definitions: on Samuel Huntington.