CONTENTS
- Front Matter
- Junk and Rubbish: A Semiotic Approach
Jonathan Culler
Reviewing Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value - Painting the Speaking Subject
Terence Diggory
Reviewing Marcelin Pleynet, Painting and System; Wendy Steiner, The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation between Modern Literature and Painting - Ideologies of the Self: Chicano Autobiography
Ramón Saldívar
Reviewing Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez; Ernesto Galarza, Barrio Boy: The Story of a Boy’s Acculturation - De Man and the Dialectic of Being
Allan Stoekl
Reviewing Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading, “Hölderlin’s Exegeses of Heidegger,” “Impersonality in the Criticism of Maurice Blanchot,” “Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image,” “Sartre’s Confessions,” and “Tentation de la permanence” - Delights of Grotesque and Sublime
Suzanne Guerlac
Reviewing Geoffrey Galt Harpham, On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature - Medievalisms and Models of Textuality
Eugene Vance
Reviewing Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - Back in Yale Again: A Reply to Charles Altieri
Paul H. Fry
- Back Matter