YCGL Volume 40
Table of Contents


Documents in the History of Comparative Literature

11 The Future of Science
Ernest Renan (Introduction, "Ernest Renan and the Old Historicism," by Gilbert Chaitin)

Articles

23 Pictocentrism
Charles Shiro Inouye

41 The Vindication of Susanna: Feminity and Truth in Early-Modern Science and Art
Christopher Braider

59 American Madness: Concepts of Culture and Sanity in The American Friend and Stroszek
William Beard

75 Somewhere Else: The Popular German Cinema of the 1960's
Tassilo Schneider

83 "You Must Remember This:" The Intimate and the Obscene in Filmic Narrative
Joel Black

91 Overcoming Mourning and the Melancholia: Redemptive Romance and the Supernatural in Ghost and Truly, Madly, Deeply
Carol Colatrella

105 The Descent to the Underworld in Borges and Cortázar
Evans Lansing Smith

117 Will the Real Cavafy Please Stand Up?
Nicholas Margaritis

Comparative Literature around the World

135 Comparative Literature in Catalonia
Neus Carbonell

137 Comparative Literature Activities in Japan
Arai Megumi, Ohsawa Yoshihiro

137 Comparative Literature in Portugal Today
Helena Carvalhao Buescu

138 Report on the ACLA Conference "Re-Orientations: Comparative Poetics, Relations between the Arts and Cross-Cultural Issues in Film," March 25-28, 1993, in Bloomington, Indiana
Cimberli Kearns

Reviews

141 Barbara Stafford. Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine; and Stephen Toulmin. Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity.
Oscar Kenshur

146 Ingeborg Hoesterey, ed. Zeitgeist in Babel. The Postmodern Controversy
Stephan K. Schindler

148 Steven Paul Scher, ed. Music and Text: Critical Inquiries
Lydia Hamessley

151 Werner Sollors, ed. The Return of Thematic Criticism.
Reed Way Dasenbrock

152 Barbara J. Webb. Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction: Alejo Carpenter, Wilson Harris, Edward Glissant.
Lemuel A. Johnson

156 Michel Laronde. Autour du Roman Beur: Immigration et Identité.
Didier Bertrand

158 Nancy Struever. Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance.
Andrew Barnaby

160 Douglas Robinson. The Translator's Turn.
Gregory M. Shreve

162 Christopher Collins. Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophonbia.
Susan Barzargan

164 Ninette Boothroyd and Muriel Détrie, eds. Le Voyage en Chine. Anthologie des voyageurs occidentaux du moyen age ŕ la chute de l'empire chinois.
A. Owen Aldridge

165 Mihai I. Spariosu. God of Many Names: Play, Poetry, and Power in Hellenic Thought from Homer to Aristotle.
Timothy Long

169 Harald Stang. Einleitung--Fufsnote--Kommentar. Fingierte Formen wissenschaftlicher Darstellung als Gestaltungselemente moderner Erzahlkunst.
Andreas Michel

170 Lilian R. Furst. Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative.
Karen Kaivola