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Volume 47 - 2001


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editor: Stephen Ross
Special Issue: Working-Class Fiction

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

Author Title Pages
Stephen Ross Introduction: Working-Class Fictions 1-11
Peter Hitchcock "Work Has the Smell of Vinegar": Sensing Class in John Berger's Trilogy 12-42
Tamas Dobozy In the Country of Contradiction the Hypocrite is King: Defining Dirty Realism in Charles Bukowski's Factotum 43-68
Nicole Moore The Politics of Cliché: Sex, Class, and Abortion in Australian Realism 69-91
Peter Kalliney Cities of Affluence: Masculinity, Class, and the Angry Young Men 92-117
Ian Peddie Poles Apart? Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Nelson Algren 118-144
Bill V. Mullen Breaking the Signifying Chain: A New Blueprint for African-American Literary Studies 145-163
Tim Libretti The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle 164-189
Lise Sanders The Failures of the Romance: Boredom, Class, and Desire in George Gissing's The Odd Women and W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage 190-228
Paula Rabinowitz Domestic Labor: Film Noir, Proletarian Literature, and Black Women's Fiction 229-254
Asha Varadharajan A Theoretical Afterword 255-276
  Contributors 277-278

 

Issue 2

Editor:  William J. Palmer
Assistant Editor: John N. Duvall
General Issue

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

Author Title Pages
Jean Gallagher Vision and Inversion in Nightwood 279-305
Paul B. Armstrong The Narrator in the Closet: The Ambiguous Narrative Voice in Howards End 306-328
Erik Dussere Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner 329-355
Peter Mallios Undiscovering the Country: Conrad, Fitzgerald, and Meta-National Form 356-390
Brian May J. M. Coetzee and the Question of the Body 391-420
Magali Cornier Michael Rethinking History as Patchwork: The Case of Atwood's Alias Grace 421-447
Suzanne Young (Review Essay) The Simple Art of Detection: The Female Detective in Victorian and Contemporary Mystery Novels 448-457
David Herman (Review Essay) Re-effectuating Joyce 458-464
John C. Hawley In Search of African Literary Theory 465-470
  Book Reviews 471-549
  Contributors 550-551

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor:  David Herman
Special Issue: Iris Murdoch

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

Author Title Pages
David Herman Introduction: Approaches to Murdoch 551-557
Michael Levenson Iris Murdoch: The Philosophic Fifties and The Bell 558-579
Bran Nicol Philosophy's Dangerous Pupil: Murdoch and Derrida 580-601
A. E. Denham Envisioning the Good: Iris Murdoch's Moral Psychology 602-629
Katherine Weese Feminist Uses of the Fantastic in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea 630-656
W. S. Hampl Desires Deferred: Homosexual and Queer Representations in the Novels of Iris Murdoch 657-673
Richard Todd Realism Disavowed? Discourses of Memory and High Incarnations in Jackson's Dilemma 674-695
S. B. Sagare An Interview with Iris Murdoch 696-714
  Book Review 715-717
  Contributors 718-719

 

Issue 4

Editor:  John N. Duvall
Assistant Editor: Siobhan Somerville
General Issue

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

Author Title Pages
John N. Duvall Editor's Note 721-722
David Adams "Remorse and Power": Conrad's Karain and the Queen 723-752
Eric D. Smith A Slow and Dark Birth: Aesthetic Maturation and the Entelechic Narrative in James Joyce's Ulysses 753-773
Sean Latham A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital 774-799
Stuart Christie "A Further Reservation in Favor of Strangeness": Isherwood's Queer Pastoral in The Mortmere Stories and "On Reugen Island" 800-830
Faye Hammill Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture between the Wars 831-854
Ervin Beck Postcolonial Complexity in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe 855-886
Tony Myers The Postmodern Imaginary in William Gibson's Neuromancer 887-909
Felicia J. Cruz On the "Simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street 910-946
Laura K. Johnson Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Marital Unity 947-976
Madelyn Detloff (Review Essay) Idealized, Debased, and Ordinary: Gender in (Post)Modern Circuits of Desire 977-985
Sally Robinson (Review Essay) What's Contemporary about Contemporary Women's Fiction? 986-994
Tim Engles (Review Essay) The Perils of Disembodied Readership 995-1003
Susan Harris (Review Essay) James Joyce after Postcolonialism 1004-1008
William Cloonan Placing the Unplaceable: The Dilemmas of Samuel Beckett's Fiction 1009-1018
  Book Reviews 1019-1075
  Contributors 1076-1077

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