Volume 54 - 2008
Issue 1
Editors: Sandor Goodhart and Monica Osborne
Special Issue: Levinas and Narrative
(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)
Introduction: Reading Darkness: The Key, The Letter, and the Beginning
Sandor Goodhart and Monica Osborne
Pages 1-19
Regarding the Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm
Simone Drichel
Pages 20-49
The Hateful Self: Substitution and the Ethics of Representing War
Aryn Bartley
Pages 50-71
Facing the Face of the Enemy: Levinasian Moments in All Quiet on the Western Front and the Literature of War
Richard Middleton-Kaplan
Pages 72-90
Hup! Hup! We Must Tumble: Toward an Ethical Reading of the Schlemiel
Menachem Feuer and Andrew Schmitz
Pages 91-114
The Death of the Other: A Levinasian Reading of Paul Auster'sMoon Palace
Kanae Uchiyama
Pages 115-39
Beyond The Dialectic: Conrad, Levinas, and the Scene of Recognition
Ihor Junyk
Pages 140-59
The Point of the Story: Levinas, Blanchot, and "The Madness of the Day"
Caroline Sheaffer-Jones
Pages 160-80
Contributors
Pages 181-82
Issue 2
Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Robert P. Marzec
General Issue
(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)
Deconstruction, Radical Secrecy, and The Secret Agent
Alex Segal
Pages 189-208
The Time Being: On Woolf and Boredom
Sara Crangle
Pages 209-32
Human Rights, Social Justice, and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Elizabeth S. Anker
Pages 233-67
Ragtime, Kavalier & Clay, and the Framing of Comics
Hillary Chute
Pages 268-301
The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota
Jessica Pressman
Pages 302-26
Surfing the Long Waves of Global Capital with Chang Rae-Lee'sNative Speaker: Ethnic Branding and the Humanization of Capital
J. Paul Narkunas
Pages 327-52
The Wake of Terror: Don DeLillo’s “In the Ruins of the Future,” “Baader- Meinhof,” and Falling Man
Linda S. Kauffman
Pages 353-77
Serial Masculinity: Psychopathology and Oedipal Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
Berthold Schoene
Pages 378-97
Review Essay: Barbarous Tongues: Immigrant Fiction and Ethnic Voices in Contemporary American Literature
Jesse Alemán
Pages 398-404
Review Essay: Writing in the Disciplinary Borderlands
Barbara Brinson Curiel
Pages 405-12
Review Essay: Literature for Social Change: From Realism to Modernism
Randall Knoper
Pages 413-22
Book Reviews
Pages 425-65
Contributors
Pages 467-68
Issue 3
Editor: David Herman
Special Issue: Muriel Spark
(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)
Introduction: "A Salutary Scar": Muriel Spark's Desegregated Art in the Twenty-first Century
David Herman
Pages 473-86
“Fully to savour her position”: Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity
Gerard Carruthers
Pages 487-504
Muriel Spark and the Meaning of Treason
Marina MacKay
Pages 505-22
Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object
Hope Howell Hodgkins
Pages 523-43
“Her lips are slightly parted”: The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
Jonathan Kemp
Pages 544-57
“Look for one thing and you find another”: The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori
Allan Pero
Pages 558-73
Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent
Lewis MacLeod
Pages 574-94
“The magazine that is considered the best in the world”: Muriel Spark and the New Yorker
Lisa Harrison
Pages 595-616
A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel Spark
Allison Fisher
Pages 617-20
Issue 4
Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Robert P. Marzec
General Issue
(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)
Not Fading into Another Landscape: Specters of American Empire in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction
Lauren A. Rule
Pages 627-53
Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship
Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Pages 654-88
Flaubert, Joyce: Vision, Photography, Cinema
Scarlett Baron
Pages 689-714
Crosstown Jakes in 1920s Manhattan: Racial Formations in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem
Silvia Xavier
Pages 715-43
The “Lost Generation” and the Generation of Loss: Ernest Hemingway’s Materiality of Absence and The Sun Also Rises
David Tomkins
Pages 744-65
(E)racing Edmund White: Queer Reading, Race, and Sexuality in A Boy’s Own Story
Nicholas F. Radel
Pages 766-90
The Politics of Queer Time: Retro-sexual Returns to the Primal Scene of American Studies
Nishant Shahani
Pages 791-814
Review Essay: Secularization: An Academic Truism or a Dubious Hypothesis?
Michael Lackey
Pages 815-26
Review Essay: The Domestic Side of Modernism
Anne E. Fernald
Pages 827-36
Review Essay: Faulkner and Cultural Conflict
Taylor Hagood
Pages 837-43
Review Essay: Regional Criticism in the Era of Globalization
David A. Davis
Pages 844-52
Review Essay: Writing in the Disciplinary Borderlands
Daniel Katz
Pages 853-61
Review Essay: The West of the Story
David Evans
Pages 862-69
Review Essay: Literary Agents
Andrew Hoberek
Pages 870-76
Review Essay: Black Subjects Re-Forming the Past through the Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition
Venetria K. Patton
Pages 877-83
Book Reviews
Pages 884-947
Contributors
Pages 948-50