7 René Wellek (August 22, 1923-November 10, 1995)
Sarah Lawall
11 The International Congress of Philosophy
René Wellek (Translation by John DeSantis)
20 Shklovsky's Theory of Prose
26 René Wellek and Enlightenment
Michael Holquist
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
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
137 Contemporary Arabic Fiction in English Translation, A Chronological Survey: 1947-1996
Salih J. Altoma
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
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
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