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Volume 25 - 1979


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editors: Leslie Field
Special Issue: Saul Bellow

Author Title Pages
Leslie Field Saul Bellow and the Critics--After the Nobel Award 3-14
Keith Opdahl "Stillness in the Midst of Chaos": Plot in the Novels of Saul Bellow 15-28
Bruce J. Borrus Bellow's Critique of the Intellect 29-46
Sarah Blacher Cohen Comedy and Guilt in Humboldt's Gift 47-58
Hana Wirth-Nesher and Andrea Cohen Malamut Jewish and Human Survival on Bellow's Planet 59-74
James M. Mellard Consciousness Fills the Void: Herzog, History, and the Hero in the Modern World 75-92
David C. Dougherty Finding before Seeking: Theme in Henderson the Rain King and Humboldt's Gift 93-102
Gilead Morahg The Art of Dr. Tamkin: Matter and Manner in Seize the Day 103-116
Steven M. Gerson The New American Adam in The Adventures of Augie March 117-128
Andrew Gordon "Pushy Jew": Leventhal in The Victim 129-138
Michael K. Glenday "The Consummating Glimpse": Dangling Man's Treacherous Reality 139-148
Lewslie Field and
John Z. Guzlowski
Criticism of Saul Bellow: A Selected Checklist 149-171

 

Issue 2

Editors: William T. Stafford and Margaret Church
General Issue

Author Title Pages
John Halperin Interview with Alan Sillitoe 175-190
Joe Weixlmann and Sher Weixlmann Barth and Barthelme Recycle the Perseus Myth: A Study in Literary Ecology 191-208
Daniel Melnick Fullness of Dissonance: Music and the Reader's Experience of Modern Fiction 209-222
Joseph C. Voelker The Spirit of No-Place: Elements of the Classical Ironic Utopia in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover 223-240
Elizabeth McMahan Sexual Desire and Illusion in The Bostonians 241-252
Marion E. Wiley Kafka's Piping Mice as Spokesmen for Communication 253-258
C. Michael Smith "A Voice in a Fugue": Characters and Musical Structure in Carson McCullers' The Heart Is  Lonely Hunter 258-263
Clifton Snider "A Single Self": A Jungian Interpretation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando 263-268
Daniel Walden Henry Roth's Call it Sleep: Ethnicity, "The Sign," and the Power 268-272
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 273-386

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor: Charles S. Ross
Special Issue: Vladimir Nabokov

Author Title Pages
Charles S. Ross An Editor's Preface 391-396
D. Barton Johnson Nabokov as a Man of Letters: The Alphabetic Motif in his Work 397-412
David I. Sheidlower Reading between the Lines and the Squares 413-426
Susan Strehle Klemtner To "Special Space": Transoformotion in Invitation to a Beheading 427-438
Robert Merrilll Nabokov and Fictional Artifice 439-462
Christina Tekiner Time in Lolita 463-470
Robert T. Levine "My Ultraviolet Darling": The Loss of Lolita's Childhood 471-480
Ellen Pifer Dark Paradise: Shades of Heaven and Hell in Ada 481-498

Notes and Reviews

Chapel Louise Petty A Comparison of Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and Nabokov's "The Leonardo": Narrative Commentary and the Struggle of the Literary Artist 499-507
Dan E. Burns Bend Sinister and "Tyrants Destroyed": Short Story into Novel 508-513
Charles S. Ross Nabokov's Mistress/Muse Metaphor: Some Recent Books 514-526
Samuel Schuman Criticism of Vladimir Nabokov: A Selected Checklist 527-554

 

Issue 4

Editors: William T. Stafford and Margaret Church
General Issue

Author Title Pages
P. E. Firchow Another Centenary: E. M. Forster 559-562
Dee Preussner Talking with Margaret Drabble 563-578
C. J. Allen Desire, Design, and Debris: The Submerged Narrative of John Hawkes's Recent Trilogy 579-592
Siegfried Mandel Mann's Mario and the Magician, Or Who Is Silvestra? 593-612
Keith M. Opdahl "You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead": Child-Adult Relations in Huck Finn 613-624
Ruth V. Gross The Narrator as Demon in Grass and Alain-Fournier 625-640
Roger Ramsey Unamuno and the Memoir Format 641-646
Terry Keefe Clamence and Women in Albert Camus' La Chute 646-651
Robin Heyeck and James Woodress Willa Cather's Cuts and Revisions in The Song of the Lark 651-658
Ray Lewis White Of Time and Winesburg, Ohio: An Experiment in Chronology 658-666
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 667-761
  Author and Subject Index: Volume 25 762-764

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