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Comparative Literature G UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE Volume 46, 1994 Comparative Literature Comparative Literature welcomes articles that explore important problems of literary theory and literary history not confined to a single national literature. Its Editors and Editorial Board are sympathetic to a broad range oft heoretical and critical approaches. Editorial Staff, University of Oregon Thomas R. Hart } Editors Steven Rendall George E. Rowe, Assistant Editor Patricia Daniels, Production Editor Editorial Board Jonathan Arac, Pittsburgh Dorrit Cohn, Harvard Phillip Damon, Berkeley Caryl Emerson, Princeton Gerald Gillespie, Stanford - Lionel Gossman, Princeton Victor Lange, Princeton Sarah N. Lawall, Massachusetts Harry Levin, Harvard Wallace Martin, Toledo David Quint, Yale Susan R. 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Comparative Literature (USPS 127-000) is issued quarterly for $15.00 per calendar year to individuals and $25.00 to institutions, plus $2.00 postage on foreign subscriptions. The price of single copies is $5.00 and $7.00, respectively. CL is published by the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. Second-class postage paid at Eugene, Oregon. Copyright © 1994 by the University of Oregon. ARTICLES REVIEWS Alvarez Amoros, José Antonio. Henry Alter, Robert. Necessary Angels: Tradi- James’s “Organic Form” and Classi- tion and Modernity in Kafka, cal Rhetoric. 40 Benjamin, and Scholem. Review by Margaret Cohen. 314 Andrews, Larry R. Hugo’s Gilliatt and Leskov’s Golovan: Two Folk-Epic He- Armstrong, Paul B. Conflicting Read- roes. 65 ings. Review by William Ray. 92 Bar-Yosef, Hamutal. Romanticism and Avni, Ora. The Resistance of Refer- Decadence in the Literature of the ence: Linguistics, Philosophy, and Hebrew Revival. 146 the Literary Text. Review by Sandy Petrey. 96 Bezeczky, Gabor. Contending Voices in Bakhtin. 321 Behler, Ernst. Irony and the Discourse of Modernity. Review by Gerald Colatrella, Carol. The Significant Si- Gillespie. 215 lence of Race: La Cousine Bette and Bjornson, Richard. The African Quest “Benito Cereno.” 240 for Freedom and Identity: Camer- Gossman, Lionel. Philhellenism and oonian Writing and the National Antisemitism: Matthew Arnold and Experience. Review by Albert his German Models. 1} Gérard. 220 Huggan, Graham. Anthropologists and Black, Joel. The Aesthetics of Murder: Other Frauds. 113 A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture. Review by Pasco, Allan. Reading the Age of David I. Grossvogel. 407 Names in A la recherche du temps perdu. 267 Brown, Marshall. Preromanticism. Re- view by Marcus Bullock. 209 Rosa, George M. Byron, Mme de Staél, Schlegel, and the Religious Motif in Desan, Philippe, ed. Humanism in Cri- Armance. 346 sis: The Decline of the French Renaissance. Review by Patrick Sandbank, Shimon. Poetic Speech and Henry. 308 the Silence of Art. 225 Durling, Robert M. and Ronald L. Solterer, Helen. Seeing, Hearing, Tast- Martinez. Time and the Crystal: Stud- ing Woman: Medieval Senses of ies in Dante’s Rime Petrose. Review by Reading. 129 Teodolinda Barolini.104 REVIEW ESSAYS Eagleton, Terry. Ideology: An Intro- Gardiner, Michael. The Dialogics of duction. Review by Christopher Critique: M. M. Bakhtin and the Norris. 390 Theory of Ideology. Review essay by Foley, John Miles. Immanent Art: From Caryl Emerson. 288 Structure to Meaning in Traditional Lambropoulos, Vassilis. The Rise of Oral Epic. Review by Ward Parks. 192 Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpre- Girard, René. A Theater of Envy: Will- tation. Review essay by Lionel iam Shakespeare. Review by Coppélia Gossman. 372 Kahn. 400 Quinones, Ricardo. The Changes of Goldhill, Simon. The Poet’s Voice: Es- Cain. Review essay by Neil Forsyth. 84 says on Poetics and Greek Literature. Vickers, Brian. Appropriating Shake- Review by Marilynn Desmond. 398 speare: Contemporary Critical Greer, Margaret Rich. The Play of Quarrels. Review essay by Harry Power: Mythological Court Dramas Levin. 182 of Calderon de la Barca. Review by Robert M. Johnston. 310 Heinrichs, Katherine. The Myths of French Modernism in the Interwar Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Years. Review by Allan Stoekl. 106 Literature. Review by Regina Psaki. Rendall, Steven. Distinguo: Reading 101 Montaigne Differently. Review by HendersonJo,hn B. Scripture, Canon, John D. Lyons. 202 and Commentary: A Comparison of Richardson, Scott. The Homeric Narra- Confucian and Western Exegesis. Re- tor.** Review by Karen Bassi. 98 view by Zhang Longxi. 396 Ryan, Judith. The Vanishing Subject: Hines, Thomas Jensen. Collaborative Early Psychology and Literary Mod- Form: Studies in the Relations of the ernism. Review by Roger Nicholls. Arts. Review by Willard Bohn. 306 21] Kristeva, Julia. Strangers to Ourselves. Schleifer, Ronald. Rhetoric and Death: Review by Karla Schultz. 316 The Language of Modernism and Lernout, Geert. The French Joyce. Re- Postmodern Discourse Theory. Re- view by Catherine Whitley. 213 view by Paul B. Armstrong. 217 Levine, Joseph M. The Battle of the Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Desire and Books: History and Literature in the Truth: Functions of Plot in Eight- Augustan Age. Review by Robert L. eenth-Century Novels. Review by Mack. 405 Simon Varey. 206 Nagele, Rainer. Theater, Theory, Suzuki, Mihoko. Metamorphoses of Speculation: Walter Benjamin and Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Scenes of Modernity. Review by the Epic. Review by David Quint. 197 Christiane von Buelow. 393 Taylor, Barry. Vagrant Writing: Social Norris, Christopher. Spinoza and the and Semiotic Disorders in the Eng- Origins of Modern Critical Theory. lish Renaissance. Review by Richard Review by Ronald Bogue. 204 Helgerson. 312 Nussbaum, Martha C. Love’s Knowl- Tindall, Gillian. Countries of the Mind: edge: Essays on Philosophy and The Meaning of Place to Writers. Re- Literature. Review by Donald G. view by Roger Sale. 319 Marshall. 195 Torgovnik, Marianna. Gone Primitive: O’Neill, Patrick. The Comedy of En- Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Re- tropy: Humor/Narrative/Reading. view by Wendy B. Faris. 186 Review by Candace Lang. 189 Van Vleck, Amelia E. Memory and Rec- Pavlock, Barbara. Eros, Imitation, and reation in Troubadour Lyric. Review the Epic Tradition. Review by David by Sarah Kay. 199 Quint. 197 Wilson, Diana de Armas. Allegories of Pimentel, Luz Aurora. Metaphoric Nar- Love: Cervantes’s Persiles and Sig- ration: Paranarrative Dimensions in ismunda. Review by Amy R. A La Recherche du temps perdu. Re- Williamsen. 402 view by Richard E. Goodkin. 110 Wilson, R. Rawdon. In Palamedes’ Quint, David. Epic and Empire: Politics Shadow: Explorations in Play, Game, and Generic Form from Virgil to and Narrative Theory. Review by Milton.* Review by Thomas R. Hart. Gerald Gillespie. 94 304 Reck, Rima Drell. Drieu La Rochelle and the Picture Gallery Novel: * incorrectly attributed to another author on the Summer 1994 contents page. Comparative Literature regrets the error. ** published by Vanderbilt University Press