SUMMER 2000

Volume 52, Number 3

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2000 BULLETIN OF

THE AMERICAN

COMPARATIVE

LITERATURE

ASSOCIATION

i

ARTICLES

Marietta Messmer

193

Reading National American Literary Historiography 

Internationally

John Pizer

213

Goethe’s "World Literature" Paradigm and Contemporary

Cultural Globalization

Neil ten Kortenaar

228

Fictive States and the State of Fiction in Africa

REVIEW ESSAY

Dorothy Figueira

246

The Profits of Postcolonialism

BOOK REVIEWS

Stephen Belcher

255

Once Upon a Kingdom:  Myth, Hegemony, and Identity.

By Isidore Okpewho.

Jennifer Wise

257

After Dionysus:  A Theory of the Tragic.

By William Storm.

Linda S. Kauffman

259

Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850.

By Thomas O. Beebee.

Downing A. Thomas

261

Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century:  Performing Music and

Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire.  By Susan Bernstein.

Karl Toepfer

263

Body Ascendant.  Modernism and the Physical Imperative.

By Harold B. Segel.

Thomas Pavel

266

Heterocosmica.  Fiction and Possible Worlds.

By Lubomir Dolezel.