YCGL Volume 48
Special Topic: Arabic/Western Literary Relations
Guest Editor: Salih J. Altoma, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
Table of Contents

Articles

3 T. S. Eliot and Modern Arabic Literature
Terri DeYoung

23 Counternarratives and Narrative Encounters: Patterns of Acculturation and Response in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi

53 Modern Arabic Literature and the West: Self-Image, Interference and Reception
Reuven Snir

73 The Reception and Translation of American Literature in the Arab World
87 The Reception of William Faulkner in the Arab World
Tawfiq Yousef

95 Viewing "the Orient" and Translating Its Literature in the Shadow of The Arabian Nights
Hartmut Fähndrich

107 The Translation of Arabic Literature into Swedish
Marina Stagh

115 The Translation of Contemporary Arabic Literature into Spanish
María Luz Comendador, Luis Miguel Cañada, Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla

127 The New Wave of Comparative Literature Journals in the Arab World
Tahia Abdel Nasser

135 The Theory of Comparative Literature and its Contemporary Trends in the Arab World
Mohamed Ibrahim Medani

145 A Tribute to the Poet and Playwright Georges Schehadé
Mona Takieddine Amyuni

155 Orientalism and Reading La Sarrasine in the Chansons de Geste
Lynne Dahmen

Specialized Bibliographies

167 Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in English on Arabic-Western Literary Relations, 1902-1997
Mark T. Day

221 Arabic-Western Literary Relations in American Publications: A Selected Bibliography
Salih J. Altoma

Departments

Horst Frenz Prize Essay, 1999

263 Nietzsche, Euripides, Philosophy and Philology in the Age of Graecomania
Kristi M. Wilson

Book Reviews

275 Sparshott, Francis. The Future of Aesthetics
Michael P. Clark

281 Miller, Tyrus. Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the Wars
Joseph Conte

286 Jensen, H. James, ed. The Sensational Restoration
Charles H. Hinnant

287 Li, David Leiwei. Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent
Grace Kyungwon Hong

291 Jenkins, Thomas E. The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism
Richard Hutson

296 Jensen, H. James. Signs and Meaning in Eighteenth-Century Art
Anthony Kaufman

299 Sayre, Gordon M. Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Suvir Kaul

304 Wolf, Werner. The Musicalization of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality
Ulla-Britta Lagerroth

308 Haynes, Roslyn D. Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film
Anthony Lambert

313 Sollors, Werner, ed. Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature
David Leiwei Li

317 McSweeney, Kerry. The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson
James McIntosh

320 Guthke, Karl S. The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature
Vernon Hyde Minor

323 Faddul, Atif Y. The Poetics of T. S. Eliot and Adunis: A Comparative Study
Akiko Motoyoshi

326 DeYoung, Terri. Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
Shakir Mustafa

331 Hawley, John C., ed. The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam’s Impact on Contemporary Literature
Shakir Mustafa

335 Batten, Guinn. The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism
Adela Pinch

340 Polonsky, Rachel. English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance
Gerald Pirog

344 Miklitsch, Robert. From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism"
Leslie W. Rabine

349 Humphries, Jeff. Reading Emptiness: Buddhism and Literature
J. E. Rivers

354 Cânones e Contextos. 5° Congresso ABRALIC
Lúcia Sá

357 Purdy, Daniel L. The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe
Martin Schwab

365 Platt, Peter G. Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous
Barbara Traister