Contents
Notes
Issue 34.4 (Fall 2007)
General Issue
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
Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa
Alice Templeton...................................................................................43
What’s the Use? Writing Poetry in Wartime
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
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
