YCGL Volume 44
Table of Contents


René Wellek: In Memoriam

7 René Wellek (August 22, 1923-November 10, 1995)
Sarah Lawall

Documents in the History of Comparative Literature

11 The International Congress of Philosophy
René Wellek (Translation by John DeSantis)

20 Shklovsky's Theory of Prose

Article

26 René Wellek and Enlightenment
Michael Holquist

Tributes

32 'Interest' in René Wellek
William J. Kennedy

35 René Wellek and Perspectivism
Sarah Lawall

37 Other Tributes
Peter Demetz, Thomas M. Greene, Geoffrey Hartman, P. M. Pasinetti, Cyrus Hamlin, Michael Kowal, Elizabeth (Welt) Trahan, Alexander Gelley, Stephen G. Nichols, William Wallon, Georges May, Alexander Schenker, and Maynard Mack

Articles

49 The Concert as Political Propaganda in France and the Control of 'Performative Context'
Jane F. Fulcher

57 Playing with Adorno: Improvisation and the Jazz Ensemble
Richard Quinn

68 Dialektik der Aufklärung: A Reappraisal
Haskell M. Block

75 Portrait of an 'Average' Girl as Urban Nomad: Representations of the Sexuality and Interiority of the Girl Subject in Okazaki Kyoko's Comics
Midori Matsui

92 Res Ipsa Loquitur: The Personification of the Physical World in Late Antiquity
F. David Wondrich

109 Looking into the Body: Autopsia and the Scopic Regime of New Testament Canonicity
Richard A. Davenport

120 Renaissance Foresight and the Science of History
Eric MacPhail

129 Traumas and Triumphs: The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 1952-1990
Henry H. H. Remak

Specialized Bibliography

137 Contemporary Arabic Fiction in English Translation, A Chronological Survey: 1947-1996
Salih J. Altoma

Forum

154 In Praise of Hybridity: A Response to Keith Cartwright's "Reading Roots"
David Chioni Moore

157 From a Goat Path into Dixie: In Response to David Chioni Moore
Keith Cartwright

Comparative Literature Around the World

160 We met at a wedding. Conference Review: "Narrative and Metaphor Across the Disciplines," ASPACLS, Auckland, New Zealand, 8- 1 0 July 1996
Juliana de Nooy

Reviews

164 Raman Selden. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism
Leroy Searle

168 Claude Bremond, Joshua Landy, and Thomas Pavel, eds. Thematics: New Approaches
Ignacio Navarrete

171 Dwight Eddins, ed. The Emperor reDressed: Critiquing Critical Theory
Brian McCrea

172 Lee Quinby, ed. Genealogy and Literature
Nina Molinaro

174 Jean-Claude Carron, ed. François Rabelais: Critical Assessments
Andrea Frisch

176 Ian Watt. Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe
James A. Parr

178 Barbara Claire Freeman. The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction
Thaïs E. Morgan

181 Rosemary Lloyd. Closer & Closer Apart: Jealousy in Literature
Laurence M. Porter

184 Roberta Johnson. Crossfire: Philosophy and the Novel in Spain, 1900-1934
Mary S. Vásquez

186 William Thompson, ed. The Contemporary Novel in France
Jean-Christian Pleau

187 Marie-Luise Gättens. Women Writers and Fascism: Reconstructing History
Gisela Moffit

191 Dana Heller. Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture
Andrew Gordon

194 Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham, eds. The Legacy of Northrop Frye
Catherine Connor

196 Peter Uwe Hohendahl. Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno
Tom Lewis