Contents

“NEVER SOME EASY FLASHBACK”: Wordsworth, Memory, and Metaphor in Paul Farley’s “Thorns”                                                     CHARLES ARMSTRONG                                                                                            6

“The Tenth Talented” v. “The Hundredth Talented”: W. E .B. Du Bois’s Two Versions on the Leadership of the African American Community in the 20th Century
MARIUS JUCAN                                                                                                             27

Identity and War in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
ANAMARIA ENESCU                                                                                                  45

Character as a Vanishing Point in American Experimental Fiction
SALWA KAROUI-ELOUNELLI                                                                                56

Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spicesi
MARIA-SABINA DRAGA ALEXANDRU                                                           77

Aesthetic and Methodologic Resources of Ezra Pound’s Poetry
GABRIEL C. GHERASIM                                                                                            88

The Romanian Bard: A Case Study of Shakespeare’s Adaptations in Contemporary Romania
DANA PERCEC and ANDREEA ŞERBAN                                                     106

What’s My Name?: Memory, Identity, and Allegory in the Age of the American Empire.
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD                                                                                      124

ARSON/ART: A MANIFESTO
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD                                                                                      157

On Poetry and Becoming: A Conversation with Paul Hamill
ALEXANDRA MITREA                                                                                             163

Volume 19 Contents   Page In Text 5 “NEVER SOME EASY FLASHBACK”: Wordsworth, Memory, and Metaphor in Paul Farley’s “Thorns” 6 CHARLES ARMSTRONG “The Tenth Talented” v. “The Hundredth Talented”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Two Versions on the Leadership of the African American Community in the 20th Century 27 MARIUS JUCAN Identity and War in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient 45 ANAMARIA ENESCU Character as a Vanishing Point in American Experimental Fiction 57 SALWA KAROUI-ELOUNELLI Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spices 77 MARIA-SABINA DRAGA ALEXANDRU In Theory 87 Aesthetic and Methodologic Resources of Ezra Pound’s Poetry 88 GABRIEL C. GHERASIM In Practice 105 The Romanian Bard: A Case Study of Shakespeare’s Adaptations in Contemporary Romania 106 DANA PERCEC and ANDREEA ŞERBAN In Labs 123 What’s My Name?: Memory, Identity, and Allegory in the Age of the American Empire 124 DAVID BRIAN HOWARD Arson/Art: A Manifesto 157 DAVID BRIAN HOWARD On Poetry and Becoming: A Conversation with Paul Hamill 163 ALEXANDRA MITREA The Hadean Raisin 168 PAUL HAMILL Book Reviews 177 McPhee, John and Carol Rigolot (eds). The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University 178 ADRIANA NEAGU “It’s the American Political System, Stupid!”: Review of Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson’s Winner-Take-All Politics 181 WILLIAM STEARNS Inglis, Fred. A Short History of Celebrity 185 ADRIANA NEAGU Notes on Contributors 189 Call for Submissions, ABC20: Creative Writing: New Signals, New Territories 193 Call for Membership 197

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