Contemporary Literature, vol. 38

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vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 1997)

Contents

An Interview with Sharon Doubiago conducted by Jenny Goodman

Poetic Positionings: Stephen Dobyns and Lyn Hejinian in Cultural Context by Christopher Beach

"Kick[ing] the Perpendiculars Outa Right Anglos": Edward Dorn's Multiculturalism by Thomas Foster

Howe Not to Erase(her): A Poetics of Posterity in Susan Howe's Melville's Marginalia by Megan Williams

Nothing to Go On: Paul Auster's City of Glass by William G. Little

A Certain Hermeneutic Slant: Sublime Allegories in Contemporary English Fiction by Catherine Bernard

Reviews

The Austerized Version by Patricia Merivale

Omnicriticism by Maurice Wallace

Tropics of Candor: V. S. Naipaul by Peter Hughes


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vol. 38, no. 2 (Summer 1997)

Contents

An Interview with Graham Swift conducted by Catherine Bernard

Postcolonial Ekphrasis: Salman Rushdie Gives the Finger Back to the Empire by Neil ten Kortenaar

Reverence and Resistance: Barbara Guest, Ekphrasis, and the Female Gaze by Sara Lundquist

Empire and Atonement: Geoffrey Hill's "An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England" by Jonathan Bolton

James Merrill's Poetry of Convalescence by Guy Rotella

Descent in the "House of Chloe": Race, Rape, and Identity in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby by John N. Duvall

Reviews

Beckett at the Bowling Alley by Daniel Albright

Domesticating Literary Leftism: The New York Intellectuals and Contemporary American Politics by Robert J. Corber

Under the Sign of Wittgenstein: Postmodern Poetics Explained by Georgette Fleischer


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vol. 38, no. 3 (Fall 1997)

Contents

An Interview with Steve Erickson conducted by Larry McCaffery and Takayuki Tatsumi

Blade Runner's Post-Individual Worldspace by Kevin R. McNamara

Publish or Perish: Food, Hunger, and Self-Construction in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior by Paul Outka

Second Death in Venice: Romanticism and the Compulsion to Repeat in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion by Judith Seaboyer

Science, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge: The Novels of John Banville by Tony E. Jackson

Foucault's Pendulum and the Text of Theory by Robert Phiddian

Reviews

The Coming of Age of Language Poetry by Marjorie Perloff

Trauma and Literary Theory by James Berger


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vol. 38, no. 4 (Winter 1997)

Contents

An Interview with Alice Fulton conducted by Cristanne Miller

Silent Texts and Empty Words: Structure and Intention in the Writings of John Cage by Michael J. O'Driscoll

"Worrying about Making It": Ted Berrigan's Social Poetics by Libbie Rifkin

In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the Poetics of (Mis)Translation by Andrew Mossin

Between Guilt and Affluence: The Jewish Gaze and the Black Thief in Mr. Sammler's Planet by Ethan Goffman

The Diaspora Jew and the "Instinct for Impersonation": Philip Roth's Operation Shylock by Debra Shostak

Reviews

Interrogating the Posthuman Body by N. Katherine Hayles

Containing Postmodernism by Bernard Duyfhuizen

Index to Volumes 37 and 38


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