Contents
Articles
An Interview
with Joseph Brodsky
Elizabeth
Elam Roth
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1
Joseph
Brodsky in Memoriam: The Russian Perspective
Elisabeth
Rich......................................................................................
10
O. J.
Simpson and the Shiksa Goddess
Jeffrey
Robin-Dorsky
.......................:...................................................
32
David Hare's
Wetherby (1985): The Failure of Logic in a Logical Form
Karen
DeVinney...................................................................................
47
Gide's Africa
Phyllis
Clark........................................................................................
56
Reviews
Cecelia
Tichi, High Lonesome: The American Culture of
Country
Music .............................. ............... Frank de-Caro and Robin
Roberts
74
Wayne Mixon,
The People's Writer.
Erskine
Caldwell and the South ................................ Philip Dubuisson
Castille
75
Roger Jones,
Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel
Mark Busby,
Larry McMurtry and the West.
An
Ambivalent Relationship ........................................... R. Clay
Reynolds
77
Paula R.
Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley, eds.,
Romantic
Women Writers:
Voices and
Countervoices ............................................... Marjean D.
Purinton
80
Renee C.
Hoogland, Elizabeth Bowen:
A Reputation
in Writing .................................................Phyllis Lassner
82
Eyal Amiram,
Wandering and Home:
Beckett's
Metaphysical Narrative
Leo Bersani
and Ulysse Dutoit, Arts of Impoverishment:
Beckett,
Rothko, Resnais ...................................................... Walter
A. Strauss
83
Tamara
Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G. Paulson, eds.,
The Traveler
in the Life and Works
of George
Sand ................................................... Elisabeth-Christine
Muelsch
87
Cover:
Designed by Ines If ilde, Rhode Island School of Design.
Richard
Fusco, Maupassant and the
American
Short Story: The Influence of Form
at the Turn
of the Century ............................................ Mary
Donaldson-Evans 88
John
G. Hutton, Neo-Impressionism and the Search for
Solid
Ground: Art, Science, and Anarchism
in Fin-de-Siecle
France............................................. Alexandra K. Wettlaufer
90
Mary
Louise Roberts, Civilization without Sexes:
Reconstructing
Gender in Postwar
France,
1917-1927............................................................ Fred Bud
Burkhard
92
Toril Moi,
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of
an
Intellectual Woman
............................................................... Elaine Marks
94
Arnold
Heidsieck, The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka's Fiction:
Philosophy,
Law, Religion..........................................................Eric
Williams
95
Jeffrey
Adams and Eric Williams, eds., Mimetic
Desire:
Essays on Narcissism in German Literature
from
Romanticism to Post Modernism ................................... Joachim
Vogeler
97
Calvin
N. Jones, The Literary Reputation of
Else Lasker-Schuler:
Criticism 1901-1993.... ......................Ruth Schwertfeger
99
Walter L.
Adamson, Avant-garde Florence:
Front
Modernism to Fascism.....................................................
Chiara Ferrari
101
Janice M.
Kozma, The Architecture ofIntagery in
AlbertoMoravia's
Fiction ........... ...................................... Carol Lazzaro-Weis
102
Janet Gold,
Clenrentina Suarez: Her Life and Poetry.................... Tamara Williams 104
Kathleen
McNerney and Cristina Enriquez de Salamanca, eds.,
Double
Minorities of Spain: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Women Writers of the
Catalan,
Galician,
and Basque Countries ....................................................
Sharon Keefe Ugalde
105
Cheryl B.
Torsney and Judy Elsley, eds.,
Quilt
Culture: Tracing the Pattern.................................................
Janis P. Stout
107
Karen
S. McPherson, Incriminations:
Guilty
WomenITellingStories.................................................. Suzanne
Chamier
108
Thomas O.
Beebee, The Ideology of Genre. -
A
Comparative Study of
Generic
Instability ............................James S. Baumlin and George H. Jensen
110
Jill
Dolan, Presence of Desire. Essays on
Gender,
Sexuality, Performance ................................................. Ann
Kennedy
112
Jay Clayton,
The Pleasures of Babel:
Contemporary
American Literature and Theory Nancy Easterlin and Barbara Riebling, eds.,
After
Poststructuralism:Irrter-disciplinarity and Literary Theory Phillip Brian
Harper, Framing the Margins:
The Social
Logic of Postmodern Culture ................................ Robert Donahoo
113
Notes on
Contributors
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116
Books
Received...........................................................................................
121