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Volume 29 - 1983

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[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editor: S. E. Gontarski
Special Issue: Samuel Beckett

Author	Title	Pages
S. E. Gontarski	A Survey of Issues: An Editor's Preface	2-4
S. E. Gontarski	The Intent of Undoing in Samuel Beckett's Art	5-24
Paul Lawley	Samuel Beckett's "Art and Craft": A Reading of "Enough"	25-42
Frederik N. Smith	Beckett's Verbal Slapstick	43-56
Hugh Culik	The Place of Watt in Beckett's Development	57-72
Roch C. Smith	Naming the M/inotaur: Beckett's Trilogy and the Failure of Narrative	73-80
Thomas J. Cousineau	Molloy and the Paternal Metaphor	81-92
Enoch Brater	Mis-Takes, Mathematical and Otherwise, in The Lost Ones	93-110
David Read	Beckett's Search for Unseeable and Unmakeable: Company and Ill Seen Ill Said	111-126
Frederik N. Smith	Three on Beckett: An Essay Review	127-130
Breon Mitchell	A Beckett Bibliography: New Works 1976-1982	131-152

 

Issue 2

Editor: William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author	Title	Pages
Augustus M. Kolich	Does Fiction Have To Be Made Better than Life?	159-174
Gary D. Cox	D. H. Lawrence and F. M. Dostoevsky: Mirror Images of Murderous Aggression	175-182
Linda Kauffman	Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!	183-200
Robert A. Morace	Freddy's Book, Moral Fiction, and Writing as a Mode of Thought	201-212
W. Paul Elledge	The Profaning of Romanticism in Trilling's "Of This Time, of That Place"	213-226
Daniel Mark Fogel	"The Last Cab" in James's "The Papers" and in The Secret Agent: Conrad's Cues from the Master	227-235
Jeffrey Meyers	Van Gogh and Lewis' Revenge for Love	235-240
Mohammad Shaheen	Forster's Meredith: Meditation and Change	240-245
Lewis W. Tusken	Thematic Unity in Herman Hesse's Narziss und Goldmund: The Tree Symbol as Interpretive Key	245-252
Kristien Hemmerechts and Suzanne Ferguson	Correspondence: The Modern Short Story, Continued . . .	253-256
	Recent Books on Modern Fiction	257-382

 

Issue 3

Editor: William T. Stafford
Special Issue: Detective and Suspense Fiction

Author	Title	Pages
W. T. S.	Editor's Preface	387-388
Peter Wolfe	The Critics Did It: An Essay Review	389-434
Timothy Steele	Matter and Mystery: Neglected Works and Background Materials of Detective Fiction	435-450
T. R. Steiner	Stanislaw Lem's Detective Stories: A Genre Extended	451-462
William Nelson and Nancy Avery	Art Where You Least Expect It: Myth and Ritual in the Detective Series	463-474
Thomas M. Leitch	From Detective Story to Detective Novel	475-484
Virginia B. Morris	Arsenic and Blue Lace: Sayers' Criminal Women	485-496
SueEllen Campbell	The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P. D. James	497-510
Erlene Hubly	The Formula Challenged: The Novels of P. D. James	511-522
JoAnn Cannon	The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Sciascia	523-534
Larry E. Grimes	Stepsons of Sam: Re-Visions of the Hard-Boiled Detective Formula in Recent American Fiction	535-544
Keith Newlin	C. W. Sughrue's Whiskey Visions	545-556
Frederic Svoboda	The Snub-Nosed Mystique: Observations on the American Detective Hero	557-568
David Monaghan	John Le Carré and England: A Spy's-Eye View	569-582

 

Issue 4

Editor: William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author	Title	Pages
William Gass	A Colloquy with William Gass (and with Brooke K. Horvath, Ruth H. Porritt, Martin D. Rapisarda, Carol F. Richer, and William T. Stafford)	587-608
Lance Olsen	Faulkner's Echo in Robbe-Grillet: Narrative Constructions and Destructions	609-622
Daniel R. Schwarz	The Originality of E. M. Forster	623-642
Charles Berryman	Hawkes and Poe: Travesty	643-654
Sherrill E. Grace	Fritz Lang and the "Paracinematic Lives" of Gravity's Rainbow	655-670
John S. Gordon	The M'Intosh Mystery	671-680
Richard Shusterman	Russell's Fiction and the Vanity of Human Knowledge	680-688
Robert R. Brock	Robbe-Grillet's Les Gommes and Graham Greene's This Gun for Hire: Imitation or Initiation?	688-695
Françoise Pellan	Virginia Woolf's Posthumous Poem	695-700
R. S. Sharma and Jeffrey Meyers	Correspondence: Lawrence and Others . . .	701-702
	Recent Books on Modern Fiction	703-830
	Author and Subject Index: Volume 29	831-835
	Contributors	836