H J E A S

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

Volume III Number 1 (1997) -- Theory Issue

Preface ............................................................. 3

Interviews

A Talk with William H. Gass by Ildikó Kaposi ........................ 5

A Talk with Catherine Belsey by Antal Bókay ........................ 19

Aesthetics, Culture, Interculturality/Multiculturalism

Heinz Ickstadt
"In the Wake of the Formal Revolution..." .......................... 29

Hartwig Isernhagen
Interculturality and Changing Notions of the Aesthetic ............. 37

Mihály Szegedy-Maszák
On the Uses and Limits of Multiculturalism ......................... 45

Interpretive Communities

György C. Kálmán
What is Wrong with Interpretive Communities ........................ 53

Gábor Bezeczky
Self-Consuming Arguments ........................................... 75

Ferenc Odorics
Interpretive Communities: To Be Interpreted, Or
A Light Intoxication of Freedom .................................... 83

András Veres
The Interpretive Community: Fiction Or Reality? .................... 89

Ferenc Odorics
Footnotes to András Veres's
"The Interpretive Community: Fiction Or Reality?" ................. 101

József Szili
A Legitimiation of Disinterpretive Communities .................... 107

Canon

Enikö Bollobás
Avatars of Poetic Traditions: Rainbows, Floodgates,
and Enemy Camps in the US Canon Debate ............................ 117

Donald Wesling
Constructivist Theory and the Literary Canon ...................... 139

Magic Realism

Tamás Bényei
Rereading "Magic Realism" ......................................... 149

Book Reviews ...................................................... 181