WINTER 2003

Volume 55, Number 1

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

ARTICLES

Geoffrey Baker

1

Nietzsche, Artaud, and Tragic Politics

Ingo Cornils

24

The Martians Are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and

Scientific Progress in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds
and Kurd Laßwitz’s Auf zwei Planeten

Tim Conley

42

Borges versus Proust: Towards a Combative Literature

Henry McDonald

57

The Performative Basis of Modern Literary Theory

BOOK REVIEWS

Warren Ginsberg

78

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture:

Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer. By Bruce W. Holsinger.

Boris Wolfson

81

The Making of the State Writer:  Social and Aesthetic Origins of

Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. 
Trans. by Jesse M. Savage.

Michael Lucey

84

Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature:

From the Sublime to the Uncanny. By David Ellison.

Thomas M. J. Bateman

87

The Necessary Nation. By Gregory Jusdanis.

John Vignaux Smyth

91

Situatedness, Or, Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From.

By David Simpson.