IF the PHRASE" POSTMODERN ORDER" appears self-contradictory, we are in danger of
oversimplifying both words. Though the fiction we call postmodern scorns the highly patterned, …

Doris Lessing recently has been honored by The New York Times Book Review as" the great
realist writer of our time"(4 June 1978). Un? fortunately, such a title is likely to mislead the …

The biblical story of" the wisdom of Solomon" bears reading as a parable of the recent state
of feminist literary theory. 1 Kings 3: 16-22 tells the tale of two harlots who bore sons while …

A decade after the untimely death of Angela Carter and half that time since the equally
premature death of Kathy Acker, their readers still mourn the loss of these brilliant narrative …

… Draine, Betsy … 責任表示 Betsy Draine …

For Derrida and Carol Jacobs, the act of writing-an act in which they both indulge with little
apparent shame or measure-is not only an unnatural act; it is an act of self-conscious, …

Louise Yelin, From the Margins of Empire: Christina St Gordimer. Ithaca, NY, and London:
Cornell University P $16.95 paper. iN~| either the intriguing title of Louise Yelin's study nor the …

In approach and in effect, these two studies of Doris Lessing’s fiction could hardly differ
more sharply. Yet they share a common understanding of Lessing’s vision and of her literary …

A. I think he uses all the things that we have, you see. Joyce says what a debt he owes to
Dickens. Proust says he owes to Dickens-and especially to the beginning of David Copperfield-…

Having commissioned an issue on the relationships between contemporary literature and
contemporary theory, we find that we have set in motion a series of meditations on the kinds of …