Contents
Issue 29.2 (Spring 2002)
General Issue
Articles
Marily Wesle .........................................................................................1
Truth and Fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried
Todd F. Davis
and Kenneth Womack
..................................................19
"O my brothers": Reading the Anti-Ethics of the Pseudo-Family in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
B.J. Manriquez.....................................................................................37
Ana Castillo's So Far From God: Intimations of the Absurd
Ana Castillo's So Far From God: Intimations of the Absurd
Richard A. Kaye ..................................................................................50
The Return of Damon and Pythias: Alan Dale's A Marriage Below Zero, Victorian Melodrama, and the Emergence of a Literature of Homosexual Representation
Stephanie Chamberlains ......................................................................................................................80
Wife and Widow in Arcadia: Re-Envisioning the Ideal
Notes
Crystal Downing ..................................................................................................................................100
Close(d) Readings of Shakespeare: Re-covering Self-Reflexivity in the Classroom
Wayne Booth .......................................................................................................................................109
Is There an "Implied" Author in Every Film?
Review Essays
Lisa Muir .............................................................................................................................................118
Mothers of the Twentieth Century
[Reviews of Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925, by Katrina Irving; The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiographies, by Jo Maslin; Mothers and Daughters in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Anthology, ed. Heather Ingman.]
Michael Thurston .................................................................................................................................127
The Poetic is the Political
[Reviews of The Power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered, Robert Shulman; Cold War Poetry, by Edward Brunner.]
Linda Grasso .......................................................................................................................................134
Changing Conversations, Shifting Paradigms: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Women's Literary Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century
[Reviews of Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon, ed. Karen L.Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards; Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature, by Susan J. Rosowski; Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 1850-90, by Karen Tracey.]
Book Reviews
Michael Bennett ..................................................................................................................................144
[Review of Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing, ed. Richard J. Schneider.]
James Grove .......................................................................................................................................146
[Review of the Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness, by John N. Duvall.]
Marilee Lindemann .............................................................................................................................148
[Review of Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality, ed. Calvin Thomas.]
Michael Nowlin ...................................................................................................................................151
[Review of The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920, by Mark S. Morrisson.]
Kate Cochran ......................................................................................................................................153
[Review of Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West, by Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.]
Chiwengo Ngwarsungu .......................................................................................................................155
[Review of African Novels in the Classroom, ed. Margaret Jean Hay.]
Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................159
CL Referees, 1999-2001 .......................................................................................................................100
Announcements ..................................................................................................................................100
