Contemporary Literature, vol. 37

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vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring 1996)

Contents

An Interview with Leslie Scalapino conducted by Elisabeth A. Frost

"Returning to Bloom": John Ashbery's Critique of Harold Bloom by Susan M. Schultz

Allegories of Reading in Alice Munro's "Carried Away" by Miriam Marty Clark

"Whatever It Is That She's Since Become": Writing Bodies of Text and Bodies of Women in James Tiptree, Jr.'s "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" and William Gibson's "The Winter Market" by Heather J. Hicks

The Migrant Intellectual and the Body of History: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Jean M. Kane

Reviews

The Rising Figure of the Poet: Elizabeth Bishop in Letters and Biography by Barbara Page

O'Connor, Porter, and Hurston on the State of the World by Will Brantley

Satire beyond the Norm by Susan Strehle

Chill Winds, Cool Breezes: Jameson in the Nineties by Douglas Mao


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vol. 37, no. 2 (Summer 1996)

Contents

An Interview with Clayton Eshleman conducted by Keith Tuma

Some Problems about Agency in the Theories of Radical Poetics by Charles Altieri

Talking His Way Back to Life: Spalding Gray and the Embodied Voice by Gay Brewer

The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo by Paul Maltby

Fantastic Language: Jeanette Winterson's Recovery of the Postmodern Word by Christy L. Burns

Reviews

Reading Cynthia Ozick: Imagining Jewish Writing by Murray Baumgarten

Poetry in Our Political Lives by Jeanne Heuving

Louis Zukofsky, Charles Tomlinson, and the "Objective Tradition" by Michael Hennessy


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vol. 37, no. 3 (Fall 1996)

Contents

An Interview with Dave Smith conducted by Ernest Suarez

"The Boot in the Face": The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Al Strangeways

A Recent Martyr: The Masochistic Aesthetic of Valerie Martin by R. McClure Smith

Tracing David Shapiro's "The Seasons" by Thomas Fink

Children of Godard and Coca-Cola: Cinema and Consumerism in Don DeLillo's Early Fiction by Mark Osteen

Reviews

Mainstreaming British Left Theater by Jenny S. Spencer

The Politics of Irishness by Anthony Bradley

Reading the Multicultural Text by Walter Kalaidjian

"This Is Not a Book on Hegel" by Michael Gorra


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vol. 37, no. 4 (Winter 1996)

Contents

An Interview with Carla Harryman conducted by Megan Simpson

The Postmodern Turn on(:) the Enlightenment by Amy J. Elias

Through a Glass Darkly: Visions of Integrated Community in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood by Susan Edmunds

Unsettling the Wilderness: Susan Howe and American History by Peter Nicholls

For Whom Bell Tolls: Don DeLillo's Americana by David Cowart

Experimental Poetics and the Lyric in British Women's Poetry: Geraldine Monk, Wendy Mulford, and Denise Riley by Linda A. Kinnahan

Reviews

Translating Theory and Feminism(s) from the French by Angela Moorjani

An Unsuitable Genre for a Woman . . . by Patricia Merivale

Defending Poetry--Again by Christopher J. Knight


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