H J E A S

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

Volume II, Number 1 (1996)
American Studies issue

Zoltán Abádi-Nagy
Not an Untroubled Bliss: The Post-Early-Phase Postcommunist
Situation of English Studies in Hungary................................. 3

Zsolt K. Virágos
Diagnosing American Culture: Centrifugality versus Centripetality;
Or, The Myth of a Core America......................................... 15

Robert E. Bieder
The Bodies in Question................................................. 35

Tibor Glant
Some Facts about Hungarian Propaganda for Territorial Integrity
Abroad, 1918-1920...................................................... 43

Gabriella Varró
Blackface Minstrelsy: An Alternative Discourse on Dominance............ 57

Benedek Péter Tóta
"Every Poem an Epitaph"; Or, the Process of Creative De-Creation:
T. S. Eliot's Final Poetic Experience in Four Quartets................. 73

Michel Delville
Vardaman's Fish and Addie's Jar: Faulkner's Tales of
Mourning and Desire ................................................... 85

Éva Federmayer
Black Woman and the Reconstruction of the Black Family:
Jessie Fauset's There Is Confusion .................................... 93

Márta Pellérdi
The Role of Biography and Literary Allusions in
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire ......................................... 103

Robert M. Davis
Dublin to Chinatown: James Joyce and Frank Chin ...................... 117

Martin Corner
Humanity and the Everyday: Creatureliness and Textuality
in Saul Bellow and John Updike ....................................... 123

Zsuzsanna Kiss
Lie Down in Darkness versus The Sound and the Fury:
A Comparative Analysis ............................................... 133

James R. Thompson
The Artist As "Criminal of Perception": E. L. Doctorow
and the Politics of the Imagination .................................. 147

Judit Friedrich
Variations on Life: Fiction and Autobiography in
John Barth's Four Latest Novels ...................................... 157

Jayne Marek
Difference, Identity, and Sandra Cisnero's
The House of Mango Street ............................................ 173

Book Reviews ......................................................... 189