Contemporary Literature, vol. 45

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vol. 45, no. 1 (Spring 2004)

Contents

An Interview with Pat Barker, conducted by Rob Nixon  (pp. 1-21)

"Bouncy Little Tunes": Nostalgia, Sentimentality, and Narrative in Gravity's Rainbow, by Nadine Attewell  (pp. 22-48)

"What Then Would Life Be but Despair?": Skepticism and Romanticism in John Banville's Doctor Copernicus, by Elke D'hoker  (pp. 49-78)

Satirizing the Carnival of Postmodern Capitalism: The Transatlantic and Dialogic Structure of Martin Amis's Money, by Jon Begley  (pp. 79-105)

On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness: The Accidental Asian and the Illogic of Assimilation, by David Leiwei Li  (pp. 106-34)

Sacrificial Limbs, Lambs, Iambs, and I Ams: Nathaniel Mackey's Mythology of Loss, by J. Edward Mallot  (pp. 135-64)

Limning Science Fiction's Edges, by Heather J. Hicks  (pp. 165-69)
   (Review of Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, ed. Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon [Pennsylvania, 2002])

Native Americanist Abroad: Exporting Blood Metaphysics Down Under, by John Newton  (pp. 170-76)
   (Review of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts, by Chadwick Allen [Duke, 2002])

How New? What Place?: Southern Studies and the Rest of the World, by Katherine Renée Henninger  (pp. 177-85)
   (Review of South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith [Louisiana, 2002])


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vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer 2004)

Contents

An Interview with Diane Johnson, conducted by Carolyn A. Durham  (pp. 189–217)

Copenhagen: The Drama of History, by Reed Way Dasenbrock  (pp. 218–38)

Naming the Secret: Don DeLillo's Libra, by José Liste Noya  (pp. 239–75)

Locating Paradise in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Toni Morrison and Critical Race Theory, by Richard L. Schur  (pp. 276–99)

"Our Foothold in Buried Worlds": Place in Holocaust Consciousness and Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces, by Dalia Kandiyoti  (pp. 300–330)

Angel Hair Magazine, the Second-Generation New York School, and the Poetics of Sociability, by Daniel Kane  (pp. 331–67)

"If You Experience Difficulty in Reading . . .", by V. Nicholas LoLordo  (pp. 368–77)
   (Review of The Difficulties of Modernism, by Leonard Diepeveen [Routledge, 2003])

Updating the Lyric, by Edward Brunner  (pp. 378–92)
   (Review of Randall Jarrell and His Age, by Stephen Burt [Columbia, 2002] and Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America, by Deborah Nelson [Columbia, 2002])


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vol. 45, no. 3 (Fall 2004)

Contents

An Interview with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, conducted by Jeanne Heuving (pp. 397–420)

Ralph Ellsion: The Invisible Man in Philip Roth's The Human Stain, by Timothy L. Parrish (pp. 421–59)

The Aesthetics of Politics/The Politics of Aesthetics: Amiri Baraka's "Somebody Blew Up America," by Piotr Gwiazda (pp. 460–85)

Blood Money: Sovereignty and Exchange in Kathy Acker, by Michael Clune (pp. 486–515)

"The Capitol of Darknesse": Gothic Spatialities in the London of Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor, by Alex Link (pp. 516–37)

A Cold War Correspondence: The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, by Michael Davidson (pp. 538–56)
   (Review of The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi [Stanford, 2004])

Good Nature: Bridging Ecology, Poetry, and Community, by Libbie Rifkin (pp. 557–62)
   (Review of This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry, by Jed Rasula [Georgia, 2002])

Metafiction as Cognition, by William Paulson (pp. 563–68)
   (Review of Cognitive Fictions, by Joseph Tabbi [Minnesota, 2002]


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vol. 45, no. 4 (Winter 2004)

Contents

An Interview with Susan Wheeler, conducted by Lynn Keller (pp. 573-96)

The Digital Topography of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, by Mark B. N. Hansen (pp. 597-636)

All in the Family: Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School, by Susan E. Hawkins (pp. 637-58)

A Mind-Body-Flesh Problem: The Case of Margaret Edson's Wit, by Elizabeth Klaver (pp. 659-83)

Fantasies of (Re)Collection: Collecting and Imagination in A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance, by John Su (pp.684-712)

How Beckett Fails, Once More with Music, by H. Porter Abbott (pp. 713-22)
   (Review of Beckett and Aesthetics, by Daniel Albright [Cambridge, 2003])

Mapping Twentieth-Century British Culture, by Patrick Deer (pp. 723-35)
   (Review of A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England, by Jed Esty [Princeton, 2004])

Lore and Encyclopedias: Reflecting Fifties Culture, by Alan Nadel (pp. 736-46)
   (Review of Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970, by Morris Dickstein [Harvard, 2002] and Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s [1990] rev. ed., by W. T. Lhamon Jr. [Harvard, 2002])

Beat Generation Literary Criticism, by Matt Theado (pp. 747-62)
   (Review of The Beat Generation: Critical Essays, ed. Kostas Myrsiades [Lang, 2002] and Reconstructing the Beats, ed. Jennie Skerl [Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004])


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