CONTENTS
- Front Matter
- Criticism and the Canon: Cross-Relations
Arnold Krupat
Reviewing Roy Harvey Pearce, Gesta Humanorum: Studies in the Historicist Mode and The Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization - The Poppies of Practical Criticism: “Rabbi, Read the Phases of This Difference”
Robert Miklitsch
Reviewing Helen Vendler, On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems, “America a Prophecy,” Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets, Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire, The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, “Looking for Poetry in America” - John Ashbery and the Articulation of the Social
S. P. Mohanty and Jonathan Monroe
Reviewing John Ashbery, “A Wave,” in Selected Poems; Harold Bloom, John Ashbery - Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
Hortense J. Spillers
- Fantasia: Walt Disney’s Los Angeles Suite
Susan Willis
- (Re)watching Television: Notes toward a Political Criticism
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
Reviewing Todd Gitlin, Watching Television - Marilyn Monroe Was Not a Man
Dean MacCannel
Reviewing Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography; Gloria Steinem, Marilyn – Norma Jeane; Anthony Summers, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe; Roger G. Taylor, Marilyn in Art - Back Matter