Contemporary Literature, vol. 36

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vol. 36, no. 1 (Spring 1995)

Contents

An Interview with Susan Howe conducted by Lynn Keller

The Company Poets Keep: Allusion, Echo, and the Question of Who Is Listening in W. H. Auden and James Merrill by Jeffrey Donaldson

Penelope Reworking the Twill: Patchwork, Writing, and Lyn Hejinian’s My Life by Craig Douglas Dworkin

After The Tempest: Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff’s New, New World Miranda by Thomas Cartelli

“All names mean something”: Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Legacy of Islam by Aron R. Aji

The Momentum of Word-Magic in James Dickey’s The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy by Robert Kirschten

Reviews

Once Again, from the Top: More Pomo Promo by Linda Hutcheon

Is Derrida a Quasi-Transcendental Philosopher? by Richard Rorty


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vol. 36, no. 2 (Summer 1995)

Contents

Samuel Beckett's Revised Aphorisms by Rubin Rabinovitz

Paradise and Loss in the Mirror Vision of Breyten Breytenbach by Brian F. Doherty

“Our Days Put on Such Reticence”: The Rhetoric of the Closet in John Ashbery’s Some Trees by Catherine Imbriglio

Identity, Masculinity, and Desire in David Bradley’s Fiction by Cathy Brigham

The Charred Heart of Polyphemus: Tantric Ecstasy and Shamanic Violence in Robert Kelly’s The Loom by Edward Schelb

Reviews

Samuel Beckett: Tradition and Innovation by Melvin J. Friedman

Anthologies, Poetry, and Postmodernism by Hank Lazer

Efforts of Influence: Moore and Bishop by Ann Keniston


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vol. 36, no. 3 (Fall 1995)

Contents

An Interview with David Wojahn conducted by Jonathan Veitch

This Doubly-Reflected Communication: Philip Roth’s “Autobiographies” by Elaine M. Kauvar

Pain and the Unmaking of Self in Toni Morrison’s Beloved by Kristin Boudreau

Articulating the Inarticulate: Singularities and the Counter-method in Susan Howe by Ming-Qian Ma

Cultural Capital and Contrarian Investing: Robert Stone, Thom Jones, and Others by James D. Bloom

Borderland Voices in Contemporary Native American Poetry by Robin Riley Fast

Reviews

“There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother”: American Catholicism/American Culture by Jonathan Veitch

Not-So-Distant Relations: Mass Culture and Literary Capital in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Paula Geyh

The Welty Boom! by Jonathan Smith


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vol. 36, no. 4 (Winter 1995)

Contents

An Interview with Nadine Gordimer conducted by Nancy Topping Bazin

“The Self Regained”: Cyberpunk’s Retreat to the Imperium by Sharon Stockton

Spaced Out: Signification and Space in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy by Steven E. Alford

A New “Other” Emerges in American Jewish Literature: Philip Roth’s Israel Fiction by Andrew Furman

Memory, Language, and Society in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Suchismita Sen

The House a Ghost Built: Allegory, Nommo, and the Ethics of Reading in Toni Morrison’s Beloved by William R. Handley

Reviews

The Sixties Past and Present by Philip K. Jason

The Personal Turn: Of Senior Feminists, Silence, and the Pastness of the Present by Elizabeth Hirsh

Who Needs Neo-Augustanism? On British Poetry by Keith Tuma

Index to Volumes 35 and 36


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