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Volume 42 - 1996


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Editor:  Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Patricia McKee Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison's Sula 1-30
Stephanie Bower Dangerous Liaisons: Prostitution, Disease, and Race in Frank Norris's Fiction 31-60
Mathew Roberts Bonfire of the Avant-Garde: Cultural Rage and Readerly Complicity in The Day of the Locust 61-90
Jeffrey T. Nealon Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Paul Auster's City of Glass 91-110
Vincent B. Leitch Review Essay: Costly Compensations: Postmodern Fashion, Politics, Identity 111-128
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 129-254

 

Issue 2

Editor:  Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
Special Issue: Narrative and History

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Patrick O'Donnell Editor's Preface 255-257
Ian Baucom Mournful Histories: Narratives of Postimperial Melancholy 259-288
Barbara Foley Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From "Blues Veins" to Seventh-Street Rebels 289-322
Laura Doyle Sublime Barbarians in the Narrative of Empire; or, Longinus at Sea in The Waves 323-348
Michael Sprinker History, Literature, Proust 349-370
Pamela Cooper Imperial Topographies: The Spaces of History in Waterland 371-396
Tony E. Jackson The Consequences of Chaos: Cleopatra's Sister and Postmodern Historiography 397-418
Thomas B. Byers History Re-Membered: Forrest Gump, Postfeminist Masculinity, and the Burial of Counterculture 419-444
Alan Nadel Review Essay: The Holocaust and Rodney King, Memory and Silence: Cliff Notes in the Age of Historical Reproduction 445-468

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor:  Marianne DeKoven
Special Issue: Gertrude Stein

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Marianne DeKoven Introduction: Transformations of Gertrude Stein 469-484
Charles Bernstein Stein's Identity 485-488
Maria Damon Gertrude Stein's Jewishness, Jewish Social Scientists, and the "Jewish Question" 489-507
Julie Abraham "We Are Americans": Gertrude, Brewsie and Willie 508-528
Priscilla Perkins "A little body with a very large head": Composition, Psychopathology, and the Making of Stein's Normal Self 529-546
Jaime Hovey Sapphic Primitivism in Gertrude Stein's Q.E.D. 547-568
Lorna J. Smedman "Cousin to Cooning": Relation, Difference, and Racialized Language in Stein's Nonrepresentational Texts 569-589
Georgia Johnston Narratologies of Pleasure: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 590-606
Constance Pierce Gertrude Stein and Her Thoroughly Modern Protégé 607-626
Florian Vetsch Desultory Correspondence: An Interview with Paul Bowles on Gertrude Stein 627-646
Lisa Ruddick Review Essay: Stein and Cultural Criticism in the Nineties 647-660
Deborah M. Mix Gertrude Stein: A Selected Bibliography 661-680

 

Issue 4

Editor:  Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
John O. Jordan Alan Paton and the Novel of South African Liberalism: Too Late the Phalarope 681-706
Maria Magdalena Farland Ethan Frome and the "Springs" of Masculinity 707-729
Rebecca Saunders On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New South 730-762
Larry Landrum The Shattered Modernism of Momaday's House Made of Dawn 763-786
Susie O'Brien Serving a New World Order: Postcolonial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day 787-806
Christopher Lane Review Essay: Uncertain Terms of Pleasure 807-826
  Book Reviews 827-942

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