6 An Early Arab Contribution to Comparative Literature: Averroës' Talhis Kitab Aristu fi al-Shi'r (A Summary of Aristotle's Poetics)
Khalil Hindawi (Translation and Notes by Hussein Kadhim)
9 Foreign Influences on Arabic and English Literatures
Fakhri Abu al-Su'ud (Translation and Notes by Hussein Kadhim)
12 Comparative Literature in Arabic: History and Major Tendencies to the 1980s
Hussam Al-Khateeb
21 "Translating" Islam: Islam and Linguistic Differentiation in
Aminata Sow Fall's Narratives
Ahmed Sheik Bangura (Introduction by Eugene Eoyang)
35 Looking the Same? A Preliminary (Post-Colonial) Discussion of
Orientalism and Occidentalism in Australia and Japan
Leigh Dale, Helen Gilbert
51 Eroticism in the Absence of Sexuality: Tanizaki, Kawabata and
Yoshiyuki
Eiji Sekine
67 The Impossible Avant-Garde in Japan
Shigemi Inaga (Translation by Margaret J. Flynn)
76 Style in Transmission
Adnan K. Abdulla
86 Travelling through Spacetime in the 20th Century European Novel
Helena Buescu
99 Squares and Triads, Growth and Narrative: Semiotics, Signs, and
Signification
Thomas Broden
123 Race and the National Question in '80s Britain
Shailja Sharma
132 The Katabasis and the Cowboy Film: A Study in Clashing Myths
John Harris
149 Assessing the Rhetoric of Performance Criticism in Three Variant
Soviet Texts of King Lear
Kenneth Womack
160 The Reception of Najib Mahfuz in American Publications
169 Bibliography
Salih J. Altoma
180 Closing Remarks for the Cagliari "Shipwrecks" Conference
Remo Ceserani
189 Report on the Second International Alfred Bates Lord Conference on Oral Tradition
Beau David Case
192 Bersani's Aesthetics of Mobility and The Culture of Redemption
Sharon Ann Jaeger
199 Gossman, Lionel, and Mihai I. Spariosu, eds. Building a
Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the Beginnings of
Comparative Literature in the United States
Henry H. H. Remak
203 Bernard Scholz, Michael Bath, and David Weston, eds. The
European Emblem: Selected Papers from the Glasgow Conference 11-14 August 1987.
David Graham
206 Giancarlo Maiorino. Leonardo da Vinci: The Daedalian
Mythmaker.
Gerald Gillespie
207 Marc-Mathieu Munch. Le plurel du beau: genèse du relativisme
Esthétique en littérature, du singulier au pluriel.
Phillip Stewart
210 Oscar Kenshur. Dilemmas of Enlightenment: Studies in the
Rhetoric and Logic of Ideology.
E.J. Hundert
211 Gerald M. McNiece. The Knowledge that Endures; Coleridge,
German Philosophy and the Logic of Romantic Thought.
Dorothy Figueira
214 David Simpson. Romanticism, Nationalism and the Revolt Against
Theory
John Anderson
216 Joseph Natoli. Mots d' Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds
Gary Day
218 Marcel Cornis-Pope. Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting.
Laurence Porter
219 Matei Calinescu. Rereading.
Marcel Cornis-Pope
223 David Perkins. Is Literary History Possible?
Robert Holub
226 Ana Balakian. The Snowflake on the Belfry: Dogma and
Disquietude in the Critical Arena.
Willard Bohn
228 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theory and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.
Leroy F. Searle
233 Robert Bates, V.Y. Mudimbe, and Jean O'Barr, eds. Africa and
The Disciplines: The Contribution of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Michael Echeruo
234 Willis Barnstone. The Poetics of Translation.
Steven White