SPRING 2007

Volume 59, Number 2

(click on author's name for a brief abstract of the article)

ARTICLES

VLADIMIR  

97

Literature, Literariness, and the Brain

ALEXANDROV

 

VIVASVAN SONI

119

Trials and Tragedies: The Literature of Unhappiness

(A Model for Reading Narratives of Suffering)

CECILIA 

140

Broken Presents: The Modern City in Ruins in Baudelaire,

ENJUTO-RANGEL

Cernuda, and Paz

DAVID

158

Absentminded Prolepsis: Global Slackers before the

LEHARDY

Age of Terror in Alex Garland’s The Beach

SWEET

and Michel Houellebecq’s Plateforme

BOOK REVIEWS

Yingjin Zhang

 

177

Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West.

By Zhang Longxi.

Wallace Martin

 

179

Body and Story: The Ethics and Practice of Theoretical Conflict.

By Richard Terdiman.

Christopher Braider

 

183

The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815.

By  David Marshall.

Lina Steiner

 

190

Realist Vision. By Peter Brooks.