Volume 15

 

Contents

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	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