Vol. 19, 2012

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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