Contents
Issue 32.4 (Fall 2008)
General Issue: 100th Issue Anniversary 1974-2005
Abstracts ...........................................................................................v-viii
Essays
Gregory J. Wilsbacher ..........................................................................1
Lumiansky’s Paradox: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Chaucer’s
"“Prioress’s Tale"
"“Prioress’s Tale"
Babak Elahi .........................................................................................29
The Heavy Garments of the Past: Mary and Frieda Antin in
The Promised Land
The Promised Land
Karen Alkalay-Gut................................................................................50
The Dream Life of Ms. Dog: Anne Sexton’s Revolutionary Use
of Pop Culture
The Dream Life of Ms. Dog: Anne Sexton’s Revolutionary Use
of Pop Culture
Christopher Hanlon .............................................................................74
Eloquence and Invisible Man
Gregory M. Colón Semenza ..................................................................................................................99
Shakespeare after Columbine: Teen Violence in Tim Blake Nelson’s "O"
Barbara Will ........................................................................................................................................125
The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word
Jerry Varsava ......................................................................................................................................145
Utopian Yearnings, Dystopian Thoughts: Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles and the
Problem of Scientific Communitarianism
Problem of Scientific Communitarianism
Nicole M. Coonradt ..............................................................................................................................168
To Be Loved: Amy Denver and Human Need—Bridges to Understanding in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Review Essays
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum ...................................................................................................................189
Understanding Teaching and Interpretation in Literature and Composition-Rhetoric
[Reviews of Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons, ed. Christina Russell McDonald and Robert L. McDonald;Critical Intellectuals on Writing, ed. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham; Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides: ed. Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Irene Papoulis; Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics, ed. Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy.]
Chris Beyers ........................................................................................................................................200
Critical Studies in a Post-Theoretical Age: Three Books Sort of about Wallace Stevens
[Reviews of Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing, by Bart Eeckhout; Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics, by Joseph Harrington; Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Motions of Poetic Language, by Kristine S. Santilli]
Phoebe Jackson ..................................................................................................................................211
The "Critical" Work of Edited Collections: Re-viewing the Texts of Willa Cather and Edith Wharton
[Reviews of Willa Cather’s Ecological Imagination, ed. Susan J. Rosowski; Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook, ed. Carol J. Singley.]
Kimberly Lamm ...................................................................................................................................217
Then and Now: Reading the Texts of Race
[Reviews of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, by Brent Hayes Edwards; Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, ed. Jake Kosek, Donald S. Moore, and Anand Pandian; Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, by Hortense Spillers.]
Book Reviews
Jeffrey Longacre .................................................................................................................................229
[Review of Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism, by Paul Youngquist.]
Steffen Hantke ....................................................................................................................................232
[Review of Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective, ed. Randall Halle and Margaret McCarthy.]
Bruce Krajewski ..................................................................................................................................234
[Review of What is World Literature? by David Damrosch.]
Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................238
