Contents
Issue 33.2 (Spring 2006)
General Issue with Special Focus Section: Conjoining Literature and Linguistics
Abstracts ...........................................................................................v-viii
Raphael C. Allison ................................................................................1
Muriel Rukeyser Goes to War: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Ekphrasis
Jonathan Scott ....................................................................................30
Advanced, Repressed and Popular: Langston Hughes During the Cold War
Monica Fagan......................................................................................52
Choirs and Split Voices: Female Identity Construction in Lorrie Moore’s
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Choirs and Split Voices: Female Identity Construction in Lorrie Moore’s
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Charles J. Stivale ................................................................................70
Tenure and Its Denial: Facing the Winter Years and Beyond
Special Focus Section:
Conjoining Literature and Linguistics
Andrea Gerbig and Anja Müller-Wood ..................................................................................................85
Introduction: Conjoining Literature and Linguistics
Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle .................................................................................................................91
Metrical Complexity in Christina Rossetti’s Verse
Mzenga Wanyama ..............................................................................................................................115
Cohesion in the Novels of Alex La Guma: A Dialogic Analysis
Elena Tapia .........................................................................................................................................135
Beyond a Comparison of Two Distinct Things; or, What Students of Literature Gain from a Cognitive
Linguistic Approach to Metaphor
Oliver Mason and Rhiannon Platt ........................................................................................................154
Embracing a New Creed: Lexical Patterning and the Encoding of Ideology
Review Essays
Kim Rostan ..........................................................................................................................................172
Reading Traumatically and Representing the Real in Collective Suffering
[Reviews of Understanding W. G. Sebald, by Mark R. McCulloh; Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation, by Michael Rothberg; Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction, by Laurie Vickroy; Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject, by Paul Eisenstein.]
Book Reviews
Jennifer Simpson ................................................................................................................................185
[Review of Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post Civil-Right Era, by Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux.]
Taryn L. Okuma ...................................................................................................................................188
[Review of Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies, ed. Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane.]
James Rovira ......................................................................................................................................198
[Review of William Blake’s Poetry: A Reader’s Guide, by Jonathan Roberts.]
Scott Pollard .......................................................................................................................................192
[Selected Writings, by Sarah Kofman.]
James S. Baumlin ...............................................................................................................................194
[Selected Writings, by Sarah Kofman.]
Michele S. Ware ...............................................................................................................................194
[Review of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, ed. Janet E. Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog with Jan Heller Levi.]
Appendix
Books Received ...................................................................................................................................203
