H J E A S

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

Contents of Volume IV, Number 1-2 (1998)

DOUBLE ISSUE: THEORY AND CRITICISM

PREFACE............................................................. 5

FORMULATIONS AND REFORMULATIONS

Donald Wesling
The Representational Moment in the Discourse of the Nation:
Jean Baudrillard's America.......................................... 9

Roderick Watson
Postcolonial Subjects? Language, Narrative Authority
and Class in Contemporary Scottish Culture......................... 21

Christopher Murray
The Foundation of the Modern Irish Theatre:
A Centenary Assessment............................................. 39

Alessandro Serpieri
Perspectivism and Poliphony in Shakespeare's Dramatic Language..... 57


INTERROGATING THE PERSONAL

David Punter
Interrogating the Personal: Erikson, Laplanche, De Certeau......... 79

Robert Burden
Symbolisation in Psychoanalysis and Literature:
Lacanian Readings of the "Poetic Metaphor" in D. H. Lawrence....... 91

John Mepham
Psychoanalysis, Modernism and the Defamiliarisation of Talk....... 105

Randi Koppen
Psychoanalytic Enactments:
Adrienne Kennedy's Stagings of Memory............................. 121

Piotr Sadowski
Psyche and the Unconscious in Systems Theory...................... 135

Antony Easthope
Homi Bhabha, Hybridity and Identity or Derrida versus Lacan....... 145

Ana Olos
(Psycho)Analytical Approach to a Case of Reading Therapy.......... 153

Judith Levy
Subjectivity and Criticism: A Psychoanalytic Reflection........... 165

Christine Bousfield
Spectres of Ma and Pa in the Marketplace.......................... 177

FEMINIST FUTURES: POLEMICAL POSITIONS

Catherine Belsey
Feminist Futures: An Open Discussion
Introduction...................................................... 189

Elfi Bettinger
Theory, Text, Teaching: Changing Feminist Subjects................ 191

Jennifer Coates
Feminist Futures and Linguistics.................................. 195

Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan
Feminist Future(s):
Women's Writing and the Question of the Literary Canon............ 201

Catherine Belsey
Inconclusive Conclusion........................................... 207

IDENTITY: LINGUISTIC, NATIONAL, CULTURAL, AND TEXTUAL

Donatella Abbate Badin
Thomas Kinsella, the Dual Tradition
and the Irish Rhetoric of Exile................................... 215

Robert Bieder
Native American Literature and the Power of Imagination........... 227

Roland Végso
"Each Other's Authors": Identity and Negation
in Philip Roth's The Counterlife and The Facts.................... 235

Elizabeth Kolmer
A New Heaven and a New Earth:
The Progressive Shakers and Social Reform......................... 253

AFFINITIES

Fred Erisman
Emersonian Echoes in E. B. White's Charlotte's Web................ 277

Edina Szalay
Breaking into the House of Death and Love: The Gothic as Subtext
in a Minimalist Novel (Joy Williams' Breaking & Entering)......... 285

Éva Miklódy
"The Fall of the House of Needed":
Apocalypse in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills........................ 299

Péter Csató
In the Wake of the Lost Grail: Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49 as Anti-Parsifal?............................ 307

Holger Klein
J. B. Priestley and Literary Biography............................ 333

DEBATE: W. P. KINSELLA

David L. Vanderwerken
Reading Race in W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe and
Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams............................. 345

Donald E. Morse
Of the Tortoise, Baseball and the Family Farm Fantasy and 
Nostalgia in W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe: A Response to David 
L. Vanderwerken, "Reading Race in W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe 
and Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams"........................ 351

THE LIFE AND WORK OF LÁSZLÓ ORSZÁGH

Zsolt K. Virágos, et al.
The Life and Work of László Országh (1907-1984):
A Round Table..................................................... 367

Myron Simon
A Fulbrighter's Memory of László Országh.......................... 407

BOOK REVIEWS

Harris, Wendell V. Literary Meaning:
     Reclaiming the Study of Literature by Zoltán Abádi-Nagy...... 413

Kaufman, Will. The Comedian as Confidence Man:
     Studies in Irony Fatigue by Zoltán Abádi-Nagy................ 417

Cixous, Helene, and Mireille Calle-Gruber. Helene Cixous 
Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Edina Szalay............... 422

Mikalachki, Jodi. The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation
     in Early Modern England by Nóra Séllei....................... 423

Peach, Linden. Toni Morrison by Éva Federmayer.................... 426

Nesset, Kirk. The Stories of Raymond Carver:
     A Critical Study by Attila Koszeghy.......................... 430

Péter, Ágnes, ed. The AnaChronisT 1997:
     A Collection of Papers by Mária Kurdi........................ 434

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS............................................. 437

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