Contemporary Literature, vol. 46

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vol. 46, no. 1 (Spring 2005)

Contents

An Interview with Medbh McGuckian, conducted by Michaela Schrage-Früh (pp. 1-17)

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian, and the Persistence of Romanticism, by Stephanie Sandler (pp. 18-45)

Diaspora by Bus: Reginald McKnight, Postmodernism, and Transatlantic Subjectivity, by Rolland Murray (pp. 46-77)

The "Saturated Self": Don DeLillo and the Problem of Rogue Capitalism, by Jerry A. Varsava (pp. 78-107)

Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, by Ankhi Mukherjee (pp. 108-33)

Postmillennial Victorian Studies, by Priscilla L. Walton (pp. 134-38)
   (Review of Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture, by Jay Clayton [Oxford, 2003])

Aesthetics of Deliberation, Aesthetics of Rapture, by Eric Rothstein (pp. 139-57)
   (Review of The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, by Charles Altieri [Cornell, 2003], and Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, by Alan Singer [Pennsylvania, 2003])


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vol. 46, no. 2 (Summer 2005)

Contents

An Interview with Joseph O'Connor, conducted by José Manuel Estévez-Saá  (pp. 161–75)

Poems Living with Paintings: Cole Swensen's Ekphrastic Try, by Lynn Keller  (pp. 176–212)

"What of the Partition": Dictée's Boundaries and the American Epic, by Josephine Nock-Hee Park  (pp. 213–42)

Afrocentric Recolonizations: Gayl Jones's 1990s Fiction, by Casey Clabough  (pp. 243–74)

Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext, by Laura Shacklelford  (pp. 275–310)

Vladimir Nabokov's Ada: Art, Deception, Ethics, by Dana Dragunoiu  (pp. 311–39)

When All the Pieces Fail to Fit: The Puzzle of the Postmodern Long Poem, by Brian Reed  (pp. 340–45)
   (Review of The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems, by Brian McHale [Alabama, 2004])

Rereading Charles Tomlinson, by Michael Hennessy  (pp. 346–57)
   (Review of Look with the Ears: Charles Tomlinson's Poetry of Sound, by Richard Swigg [Lang, 2002], and The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Border Lines, by Judith P. Saunders [Fairleigh Dickinson, 2003])

Postmodernism, Urbanism, and African American Literary Studies, by Daylanne K. English  (pp. 358–62)
   (Review of Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism, by Madhu Dubey [Chicago, 2003])


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vol. 46, no. 3 (Fall 2005)

Contents

An Interview with Pat Barker, conducted by John Brannigan (pp. 367–92)

Lorine Niedecker's "Paean to Place" and Its Fusion Poetics, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (pp. 393–421)

The "Sixth Emigrant": Traveling Places in the Works of W. G. Sebald, by Christopher C. Gregory-Guider (pp. 422–49)

Informational Inheritance in Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless, by Richard House (pp. 450–82)

Don DeLillo's The Body Artist: Performing the Body, Narrating Trauma, by Laura Di Prete (pp. 483–510)

Split Infinities: The Comedy of Performative Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey, by Jonna Mackin (pp. 511–34)

Uncontained: New Directions for Cold War Poetics, by Deborah Nelson (pp. 535–40)
   (Review of Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics, by Michael Davidson [Chicago, 2004])

Lucille Clifton: Defining What American Poetry Is, by Cheryl A. Wall (pp. 541–43)
   (Review of Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton, by Hilary Holladay [Louisiana State, 2004])

Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis: The Ironic Inferno of British Satire, by Robert S. Baker (pp. 544–54)
   (Review of Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel since 1950, by Gavin Keulks [Wisconsin, 2003]


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vol. 46, no. 4 (Winter 2005)

Contents

An Interview with Alice McDermott, conducted by Charlie Reilly (pp. 557-78)

The Poetics of Affinity: Lorine Niedecker, William Morris, and the Art of Work, by Elizabeth Willis (pp. 579-603)

Paratext, Citation, and Academic Desire in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, by Beth McCoy (pp. 604-35)

To Send a Shiver through Unitel: Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Paul Muldoon's "Madoc—A Mystery," by Andrew J. Auge (pp. 636-66)

Jorie Graham and American Poetry, by Kirstin Hotelling Zona (pp. 667-87)

Fictions Public and Private: On Philip Roth, by Robert Chodat (pp. 688-719)

A Heart with Dichotomies, by Elaine M. Kauvar (pp. 720-35)
   (Review of Up Society's Ass, Copper, by Mark Shechner [Wisconsin, 2003], and Philip Roth—Countertexts, Counterlives, by Debra Shostak [South Carolina, 2004])

Remembering, Repeating . . . , by Sara Guyer (pp. 736-45)
   (Review of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification, by Amy Hungerford [Chicago, 2003], and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, by Dominick LaCapra [Cornell, 2004])


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