University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies and the Adamastor Book Series

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Producing Presences. Branching Out From Gumbrecht's Work

Edited by Victor K. Mendes and João Cezar de Castro Rocha
With an Afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

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Foreword

Do Theories Ever Travel?
Victor K. Mendes / João Cezar de Castro Rocha

Theory and its Intensity

15

The Materiality of Presence: Notes on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s Theoretical Project
Pierpaolo Antonello

27

Lost in Focused Intensity: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s Hymn to Sports
Horst Bredekamp

31

The "Soft Terror" of Deconstruction
René Girard

41

In Praise of Focused Intensity
Stephen Greenblatt

47

Points of Style
Robert Pogue Harrison

53

Critical Reading After Gumbrecht
Victor K. Mendes

73

Some Thoughts on the Physics of Presence
Andrea Nightingale

83

Materialities of Communication: A Parallel Campaign from the Comrade-in-Arms
Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer

93

What’s the Matter with Presence?
Joan Ramon Resina

105

Match Point—Is Sports History Possible?
João Cezar de Castro Rocha

129

On Production of Presence
Richard Rorty

133

Gumbrecht’s "Presence" Between Musil and Heidegger
Kathrin Rosenfield

149

Interpretation in a Package
Miguel Tamen

157

Literary Aesthetics: The Very Idea
Lindsay Waters

Theory and its Locations

173

In-12 Versus In-folio
Abel Barros Baptista

191

Here Lies Nothing: Ghosts of Empire in Portuguese India
K. David Jackson

215

Another Look at Identities
José Luís Jobim

229

Allophone Presences, in the ‘Here-and-Now’ of the Humanities
Christopher Larkosh

243

Repress the Desire for Eternity, or, Stop Making Sense of History!
Luís Madureira

253

On How to Compact a Text, or, La Rochefoucauld in the Tropics
Pedro Meira Monteiro

267

The Senses of In-Materiality
Evando Nascimento

287

Portuguese Actually: The “Special Relationship�? meets the “Oldest Alliance�?
Hilary Owen

297

From Oral Transmission to Written Text: The Construction of Emerging Literary Systems
Francisco Salinas Portugal

315

Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard: The Concepts of "Figural" and "Presence"
Marília Librandi Rocha

331

Teaching Desire: The Aleatory in Ethics and the Aesthetic Experience
Phillip Rothwell

339

Afterword

Will my Present have a Future?
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

353

Remarks on "Will my Present have a Future?"
Arbogast Schmitt

359

Contributors and Translators

369

Index