Vol. 15, 2010

Volume 15

 

Contents

 

Page
In Theory 7
Thinking Globally? The Idea, Ideology and Limits of Cosmopolitanism 8
BARBARA WILL
Retrospections/Introspections 24
Modernism’s Last Post: The Critical Demise of Clement Greenberg’s ‘Post Painterly Abstraction’ Exhibition in Los Angeles 25
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD
On the Dialectics of Intoxication in Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch 47
JOSE CARLOS FELIX, CHARLES PONTE and FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO
In Text 67
Travelling for America: William Dean Howells and John Ruskin 68
OANA COGEANU
Negotiating Cultural Spaces and Identities: Isabella Bird’s The Englishwoman in America 76
ANCA L. IANCU
Ethnic Identity and the Jewish American Writers 90
ROXANA MIHELE
“Leaning on the Limits of Myself”: Jeanette Winterson’s Weight as an Existentialist Text 104
FUNDA BAŞAK BASKAN
Anglo-American Identity and Romanticizing Arabia: Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands and Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky 119
WASFI SHOQAIRAT and DAVID SIMMONS
Homo Fabula and Dimensions of Story Tellability in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil 139
DORINA DANIELA VASILOIU
Heidelberg University
Narrative Strategy: The Role of Woods and Forests in George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales 148
SUNEETI LOCK
In-Process 162
Presupposition in Translation: Transferring Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions from English into Romanian 163
TEODORA PAŞTIU
In-Labs 173
The Valise 174
ADRIAN MATHEWS
Slice: A Short Story 187
GILL KINGSLAND
Reviews 202
Vincent B. Leitch et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 203
TAUAN FERNANDES TINTI
Katharine Cockin and Jago Morrison, eds., The Post-War British Literature Handbook 207
CHARLOTTE BEYER
Michael Clune, American Literature and the Free Market, 1945- 2000 210
AARON GIOVANNONE
Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence 214
CHARLOTTE BEYER
Thomas J. Sugrue, Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race 217
ADRIANA NEAGU
Notes on Contributors 220
Call for Papers (.pdf) 225
Call for Membership 228
ISSN 1841-1487 (Print)
ISSN 1841-964X (Online)
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