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AUTHORS AND TITLES Belanoff , Pat (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook). The Fall (?) of the Old English Female Poetic Image......................................................................................................................... (Oct.) 822 De Maria , Robert , Jr . (Vassar Coll.). The Politics of Johnson’s Dictionary............... (Jan.) 64 Devlin , Kimberly J. (Univ. of California, Riverside). “See ourselves as others see us”: Joyce’s Look at the Eye of the Other.......................................................................................... (Oct.) 882 Dye , Robert Ellis (Macalester Coll.). “Selige Sehnsucht” and Goethean Enlightenment (Mar.) 190 Engle , Lars (Univ. of TUlsa). Afloat in Thick Deeps: Shakespeare’s Sonnets on Certainty (Oct.) 832 Friedman , Geraldine (Purdue Univ.). Baudelaire’s Theory of Practice: Ideology and Difference in “Les yeux des pauvres”.............................................................. (May) 317 Genette , Gerard . Modern Mimology: The Dream of a Poetic Language................. (Mar.) 202 Greer , Margaret Rich (Princeton Univ.). Art and Power in the Spectacle Plays of Calde- rdn de la Barca................................................................................................................................. (May) 329 Holladay , William E. (Indiana Univ., Bloomington), and Stephen Watt (Indiana Univ., Bloomington). Viewing the Elephant Man................................................................................ (Oct.) 868 Leidner , Alan C. (Univ. of Louisville). A Titan in Extenuating Circumstances: Sturm und Drang and the Kraftmensch................................................................................................... (Mar.) 178 Leonardi , Susan J. (Univ. of Maryland, College Park). Recipes for Reading: Summer Pasta, Lobster a la Riseholme, and Key Lime Pie..................................................................... (May) 340 Longenbach , James (Univ. of Rochester). Matthew Arnold and the Modern Apocalypse (Oct.) 844 Martin Gaite , Carmen (Madrid, Spain). The Virtues of Reading................................ (May) 348 Mc Mahon , Robert (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge). Kenneth Burke’s Divine Comedy: The Literary Form of The Rhetoric of Religion...................................................... (Jan.) 53 Ramazani , R. Jahan (Univ. of Virginia). Yeats: Tragic Joy and the Sublime............... (Mar.) 163 Redfield , Marc W. (Univ. of Geneva). Pynchon’s Postmodern Sublime...................... (Mar.) 152 Rolleston , James L. (Duke Univ.). The Politics of Quotation: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project................................................................................................................................................ (Jan.) 13 Schaub , Uta Liebmann (Univ. of Toledo). Foucault’s Oriental Subtext........................ (May) 306 Seamon , Roger (Univ. of British Columbia). Poetics against Itself: On the Self- Destruction of Modern Scientific Criticism................................................................................ (May) 294 Smith , Barbara Herrnstein (Duke Univ.). Presidential Address 1988. Limelight: Reflec- tions on a Public Year...................................................................................................................... (May) 285 TUmpleton , Joan (Long Island Univ.). The Doll House Backlash: Criticism, Feminism, and Ibsen............................................................................................................................................ (Jan.) 28 Valis , Noel M. (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor). The Perfect Copy: Clarin’s Su unico hijo and the Flaubertian Connection.......................................................................................... (Oct.) 856 von Buelow , Christiane (Univ. of California, Irvine). Vallejo’s Venus de Milo and the Ruins of Language........................................................................................................................... (Jan.) 41 Waller , Margaret (Pomona Coll.). Cherchez la Femme'. Male Malady and Narrative Politics in the French Romantic Novel........................................................................................ (Mar.) 141 Williams , Raymond Leslie (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder). The Visual Arts, the Poeti- zation of Space and Writing: An Interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez........................ (Mar.) 131 II. MISCELLANEOUS Committees and Commissions of the Association .................................................................. (Dir.) 457 A Concise Guide to MLA Activities and Services ............................................................. (Dir.) 467 Constitution of the Modern Language Association ......................................................... (Dir.) 500 Departmental Administrators , 1989-90 Four -Year Colleges and Universities ............................................................................. (Dir.) 657 Two Year Colleges .................................................................................................................. (Dir.) 674 Directory of Useful Addresses , 1989-90........................................................................... (Dir.) 786 Distribution of MLA Members ............................................................................................ (Dir.) 480 Editor ’s Column ............................................................................................ (Jan.) 5, (Mar.) 125, (May) 277 Ethnic Studies Programs ....................................................................................................... (Dir.) 684 Fellowships and Grants ......................................................................................................... (Dir.) 698 Forum ..........................................................................................(Jan.) 75, (Mar.) 215, (May) 358, (Oct.) 894 Contents of Volume 104 Guest Column ..................................................................................................................................... (Oct.) Honorary Fellows of the Modern Language Association ......................................... (Dir.) Honorary Members of the Modern Language Association ....................................... (Dir.) Humanities Research Centers ............................................................................................... (Dir.) In Memorlam ................................................................................................................................. (Dir.) Language and Area Programs ............................................................................................... (Dir.) 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