Contemporary Literature

vol. 48, no. 2 (Summer 2007)

Contents

An Interview with Cristina García, conducted by Ylce Irizarry  (pp. 175–94)

Ludic Eloquence: On John Ashbery’s Recent Poetry, by Roger Gilbert  (pp. 195–226)

"Looking Back from the Grave": Sensory Perception and the Anticipation of Absence in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, by Laura E. Tanner  (pp. 227–52)

The Northern Irish Novelist in Ronan Bennett’s The Catastrophist, by Sarah Brouillette  (pp. 253–77)

"Ordinary Pocket Litter": Paper(s) as Dangerous Supplement(s) in Cold War Novels of Intrigue, by Jacqueline Foertsch  (pp. 278–306)

Reviews

Rereading the Romance, by Eric Murphy Selinger (pp. 307–24)
   (Review of From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels, by Juliet Flesch [Curtin, 2004]; Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels, ed. Sally Goade [Cambridge Scholars, 2007]; The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative, by Deborah Lutz [Ohio State, 2006]; Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction, by Lynn S. Neal [North Carolina, 2006]; and A Natural History of the Romance Novel, by Pamela Regis [Pennsylvania, 2003])


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