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Issue 34.4 (Fall 2007)
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Abstracts ...........................................................................................iv-vii

Essays
Martine van Elk .....................................................................................1
“Determined to prove a villain:”Criticism, Pedagogy, and Richard III!

Anne Donadey ....................................................................................22
Overlapping and Interlocking Frames for Humanities Literary Studies:
Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa

Alice Templeton...................................................................................43
What’s the Use? Writing Poetry in Wartime

Zhou Xiaojing ......................................................................................63
"What Story What Story What Sound": The Nomadic Poetics of Myung Mi Kim’s Dura


Eric Williams ........................................................................................................................................92
Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s "Investigations of a Dog"

Christie Launius ..................................................................................................................................125
Law of the Intangible: Desegregation, Diversity, and the Individual

Chris Ruiz-Velasco ..............................................................................................................................148
Grand Juries, Legal Machines, and the Common Man Jury

Kenneth Hada .....................................................................................................................................166
The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s Fire in Beulah

Notes
Steffen Hantke......................................................................................................................................191
Academic Film Criticism, the Rhetoric of Crisis,: and the Current State of American Horror Cinema:
Thoughts on Canonicity and Academic Anxiety

Book Reviews
Anthony DiMatteo ................................................................................................................................204
[Review of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599, by James Shapiro.]

Hannah Ashley.....................................................................................................................................207
[Review of Multicultural Hybridity: Transforming American Literary Scholarship and Pedagody, by Laurie Grobman.]

Timothy Roberts ..................................................................................................................................210
[Review of Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel, by Lisa Zunshine.]

Philip L. Simpson ................................................................................................................................212
[Review of True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity, by Mark Seltzer.]

Wendy Whelan-Stewart ......................................................................................................................216
[Selected Writings, by Sarah Kofman.]

Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................220