YCGL Volume 47
Table of Contents


Articles

3 Embracing the Contingent: A Pragmatist Defense of Literary Studies
Jonathan Levin

25 Dramatic Diegesis: Truth and Fiction in Cervantes's El Gallardo Español
Eric J. Kartchner

37 Baudelaire's America: Contrary Affinities
Dudley M. Marchi

53 De l'inspiration des jeux de sens d'Alice au pays des merveilles et des techniques d'utilisation du blanc dans l'écriture nabokovienne
Yona Dureau

71 Charlotte Mew's Queer Death
Suzanne Raitt

81 The Totemic Image and the "Bodies" of the Gothic in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
Susan Poznar

109 In the Silence of the Knight: Kathy Acker's Don Quixote as a Work of Disenchantment
Christopher L. Robinson

125 Nietzsche's Playground/Battlefield in Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
Ethan J. Leib

Departments

Horst Frenz Prize Essay, 1998

167 The Self in Translation: British Orientalists, American Transcendentalists, and Sanscrit Scriptures in English
Steven Adisasmito-Smith

Book Reviews

179 Reiss, Timothy J. Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism
Don Paul Abbott

181 Delville, Michel. The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre
Steven Gould Axelrod

185 Lindenberger, Herbert. Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage
Scott L. Balthazar

190 Beissinger, Margaret, Jane Tylus, And Susanne Wofford, eds. Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
Jeffrey S. Bardzell

194 Parker, Jo Alyson. The Author's Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel
Barbara M. Benedict

198 Levin, David J. Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

202 Parks, Tim. Translating Style: The English Modernists and Their Italian Translations
Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

206 Jack, Belinda. Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey
Henry Cohen

209 Richter, David H. The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel
Frederick Garber

212 Nisbet, H. B., and Clyde Rawson, eds. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 4: The Eighteenth Century
David Halliburton

217 Quantic, Diane Dufva. The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction
Matthew Hokom

221 Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret. Jonson, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Virgil
Ejner J. Jensen

224 Huffer, Lynne. Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures
E. Ann Kaplan

229 Akiyama, Masayuki, and Yiu-Nam Leung, eds. Crosscurrents in the Literatures of Asia and the West: Essays in Honor of A. Owen Aldridge
Wendy Larson

235 Larsen, Neil. Reading North by South: On Latin American Literature, Culture, and Politics
Darrell B. Lockhart

238 Bilger, Audrey. Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen
Devoney Looser

242 Bohn, Willard. Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde
Adrianna M. Paliyenko

247 Goldman, Marlene. Paths of Desire: Images of Exploration and Mapping in Canadian Women's Writing
Mary Louise Pratt

250 Glausser, Wayne. Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eighteenth Century
William Richey

254 Cohn, Robert Greer, ed., and Gerald Gillespie, associate ed. Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century
Rebecca Saunders

258 O'Rourke, James. Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism
Paul D. Sheats

262 Craft, Linda J. Novels of Testimony and Resistance from Central America
Gwen Stickney

267 Wilson-Tagoe, Nana. Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Culture
Craig Tapping

271 Lumsden, Robert, and Rajeev Patke, eds. Institutions in Cultures: Theories and Practice
Shan Te-hsing

276 Williams, Trevor. Reading Joyce Politically
Michael Tratner