PREFACE................................................................ 3 THEORY AND ITS DISORGANIZATION Vincent B. Leitch Disorganization and Death of Theory American Style..................... 5 THEORY IN AMERICAN STUDIES Donald E. Pease The Place of Theory in the Future of American Studies................. 11 Enikö Bollobás Fabulae of Old and New: New American Studies and the Postmodern Episteme...................... 33 Virginia R. Dominguez When a Representation Offends Us: Toward an Analytics of Feeling in the Practice of Theory............................................. 49 Zoltán Kövecses American Studies in the Age of Cognitive Science...................... 59 Éva Federmayer Primal Scenes of Encounter: Stradanus, Nick Carraway, and American Studies Methodology............ 81 Tibor Frank Time and Space in the American Mind................................... 95 Jane Desmond Mapping "American Studies" Across National Boundaries II: The Politics of "Politics," the Politics of Knowledge, and the Limits to Collaboration.......................................... 109 THEORY AND THE DECLINE OF ENGLISH Aladár Sarbu Declining English? Some Recent Anxieties............................. 115 BOOK REVIEWS Egri, Péter. Text in Context: Literature and the Sister Arts by Mária Kurdi....................................................... 125 Szili, József. A poétikai m(nemek interkulturális elmélete by Gergely Kovács....................................................... 127 Denisova, Tamara, et al. American Literature after Midcentury: International Conference Proceedings. Kyiv: 25-27 May, 1999 by Ádám Molnár....................................................... 131 Birk, John F. Tracing the Round: The Astrological Framework of Moby-Dick by Robert Adolph........................................ 133 Yamamoto, Dorothy. The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature by Thomas Honegger................................ 135 Szönyi, György E., and Rowland Wymer eds. The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance Stage by Zsolt Almási...................................................... 138 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS................................................ 145
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