Contemporary Literature, vol. 35

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vol. 35, no. 1 (Spring 1994)

Contents

An Interview with Paul Muldoon conducted by Lynn Keller

James Merrill’s Masks of Eros, Masques of Love by Eric Selinger

“The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible”: Perception and Genre in Samuel Beckett’s Later Drama by Therese Fischer-Seidel

Brian Friel’s Plays and George Steiner’s Linguistics: Translating the Irish by Helen Lojek

“I Write in Tongues”: The Supplement of Voice in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Fragmented Bodies/Selves/Narratives: Margaret Drabble’s Postmodern Turn by Roberta Rubenstein

Reviews

Avant-Gardes and American Poetry by Alan Golding

A Poetics of Its Own Occasion by Paul Mann

Learning to Be Contemporary Somewhere in the Middle of Modernism by John Palattella

Strategizing Pinter and Bond by W. B. Worthen

Accounting for the Play: Fifty Years of American Drama by Howard Pearce

Beneath the Return to the Valley of the Culture Wars by Michael Bérubé


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vol. 35, no. 2 (Summer 1994)

Contents

An Interview with Marilynne Robinson conducted by Thomas H. Schaub

Nadine Gordimer: Dark Times, Interior Worlds, and the Obscurities of Difference by Dagmar Barnouw

Bruises, Roses: Masochism and the Writing of Kathy Acker by Arthur F. Redding

“Isn’t It Romantic? Angela Carter’s Bloody Revision of the Romantic Aesthetic in “The Erl-King” by Harriet Kramer Linkin

Of Games with the Universe: Preconceptions of Science in Stanislaw Lem’s The Invincible by Peter Swirski

“The Occasion and Contexture of Speech” in Contemporary British Poetry by Patrick Deane

Reviews

“Real Politics” and the Canon Debate by Bruce Robbins

"Emancipatory Predicaments in Postmodern Criticism" by Judith Chambers

“Second Stage”: Toward a (Post)modern Aesthetic of Dramatic Performance by Dawn Dietrich

"Maiden Voyages through Virgin Lands: Mapping Feminism in the World" by Meera Viswanathan

Critical Anthologies of the Plague Years: Responding to AIDS Literature by Lawrence Howe


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vol. 35, no. 3 (Fall 1994)

Contents

An Interview with Antonio Tabucchi conducted by Anna Botta

Charting J. M. Coetzee’s Middle Voice by Brian Macaskill

Orientations: James Fenton and Indochina by Douglas Kerr

Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus: An Engaged Feminism via Subversive Postmodern Strategies by Magali Cornier Michael

Revealing “The Torso”: Robert Duncan and the Process of Signifying Male Homosexuality by Greg Hewett

Spd of Snd–Grace of Lt: Joan Retallack’s WESTERN CIV and the “Cultural Logic” of the Postmodern Poem by Alan Devenish

Reviews

The New Larkin and His Proper Ground by Neil Covey

Position Papers: Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction and Criticism by Jeanne Colleran

Foucault’s Perfection by Jacques Lezra


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vol. 35, no. 4 (Winter 1994)

Contents

An Interview with Thomas Flanagan conducted by Dennis B. Downey

A Tale of Two Parrots: Walcott, Rhys, and the Uses of Colonial Mimicry by Graham Huggan

“We Were Talking Jewish”: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as “Holocaust” Production by Michael Rothberg

Bodies Incorporated: Scenes of Agency Panic in Gravity’s Rainbow by Timothy Melley

Petition, Repetition and “Autobiography”: J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women by Roger Luckhurst

“See Armantrout for an Alternate View”: Narrative and Counternarrative in the Poetry of Rae Armantrout by Michael Leddy

Reviews

Insurmountable Possibilities by Rei Terada

Brutalities of the Vanguard by Jed Rasula

After Such Knowledge, Knowledge Is What You Know by John Palattella

Performing Gender(s) by Michael Vanden Heuvel


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