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INDEX: MLN Volume 107 (1992)

ARTICLES Aboulaffia, Victor. The Quarrel of the "Vowels" 774 (4) Allan, Mowbray. Two Dantes: Christian versus Humanist? 18 (1) Ancekewics, E. M. De la poetisation de l'histoire a la politisation

de la poetique: Histoire et poesie dans la Traite du poeme epique (1675) du pere Le Bossu 698 (4)

Artigiani, Roberto. Image-Music-Pinball 855 (5) Bauer, Beth Wietelmann. For Love and Money: Narrative

Economies in Misericordia 235 (2) Bueno, Eva Paulino. Brazilian Naturalism and the Politics of

Origin 363 (2) Coletti, Theresa. Pinball, Voodoo, and 'Good Primal Matter':

Incarnations of Silence in Foucault's Pendulum 877 (5) de Vries, Hent. Anti-Babel: The 'Mystical Postulate' in Ben-

jamin, De Certeau and Derrida 441 (3) Donato, Clorinda (ed.). The Letters of Fortunato Bartolomeo

De Felice to Pietro Verri 74 (1) Doueihi, Milad. The Politics of Simplicity 639 (4) Eco, Umberto. Reading My Readers 819 (5) Epps, Brad. The Politics of Ventriloquism: Cava, Revolution

and Sexual Discourse in CondeJulian 274 (2) Fedi, Roberto. "L'imagine vera": Vittoria Colonna, Michelan-

gelo, e un'idea di canzoniere 46 (1) Freinkel, Lisa. Inferno and the Poetics of Usura 1 (1) Geulen, Eva. Zeit zur Darstellung. Walter Benjamins Das Kunst-

werk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit 580 (3) Geyer-Ryan, Helga. Effects of Abjection in the Texts of Walter

Benjamin 499 (3) Hanne, Michael. Silone's Fontamara: Polyvalence and Power 132 (1) Hume, Kathryn. Sensuality and the Senses in Calvino's Fiction 160 (1) Jehenson, Myriam Yvonne. The Dorotea-Fernando/Luscina-

Cardenio Episode in Don Quijote: A Postmodernist Play 205 (2) Juarrero, Alice. The Message Whose Message It Is That There

Is No Message 892 (5) Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. Ii faut 421 (3) Lewis, Philip. Writing to the King: Charles Perrault's Dedica-

tory Epistle for the Dictionnaire de l'Academie 673 (4)



Marin, Louis. Le moi et les pouvoirs de l'image: Glose sur Pyg- malion, scene lyrique de J.-J. Rousseau 659 (4)

Mejia, Adelaida L6pez. Burying the Dead: Repetition in El otono del patriarca 298 (2)

Melberg, Arne. Benjamin's Reflection 478 (3) Mele, Alfred R. and Paisley Livingston. Intentions and Inter-

pretations 931 (5) Miers, Paul. The Other Side of Representation: Critical Theory

and the New Cognitivism 950 (5) Newmark, Kevin. L'absolu litteraire: Friedrich Schlegel and the

Myth of Irony 905 (5) Quiroga, Jose. El entierro de la poesia: Huidobro, Nietzsche y

Altazor 342 (2) Rubino, Carl A. "Oh, Language Diabolical and Holy": Notes on

the Extravagance of Foucault's Pendulum 828 (5) Saccamano, Neil. Rhetoric, Consensus, and the Law in Rous-

seau's Contrat social 730 (4) Saccone, Eduardo. Figures of Silence in the Orlando Furioso 36 (1) Schlossman, Beryl. Benjamin's Uber einige Motive bei Baudelaire:

The Secret Architecture of Correspondances 548 (3) Silk, Sally M. Caught in the Dialogic: The Celinian Narrator

Silenced 795 (4) Soufas, Teresa S. The Receptive Circuit and the Mise en scene

in/of La Estrella de Sevilla 220 (1) Spang, Rebecca L. "And they ate the zoo": Relating Gastro-

nomic Exoticism in the Siege of Paris 752 (4) Stone, Mirto Golo. Contro la modernita e la cultura borghese: I

promessi sposi e l'ascesa del romanzo italiano 112 (1) Urbina, Nicasio. Las mil y una noches y Cien anos de soledad: falsas

presencias e influencias definitivas 321 (2) Valis, Noel. Fabricating Culture in Canovas 250 (2) Vernon, Victoria. The Demonics of (True) Belief: Treacherous

Texts, Blasphemous Interpretations, and Murderous Readers 840 (5)

Wehrs, Donald R. Colonialism, Polyvocality, and Islam: L'aven- ture ambique and Le devoir de violence 1000 (5)

Weidmann, Heiner. Geistesgegenwart. Das Spiel in Walter Benjamins Passagenarbeit 521 (3)

Wilkinson, Lynn R. The Art of Distinction: Proust and the Dreyfus Affair 976 (5)

NOTES

Asman, Carrie L. Theater and Agon/Agon and Theater: Walter Benjamin and Florens Christian Rang 606 (3)



Dagenais, John. Mulberries, Sloe Berries; or, Was Dofia En- drina a Mora? 396 (2)

Gaillard, Jone. Cavalleria rusticana: Novella, Dramma, Melo- dramma 178 (1)

Macksey, Richard. "Fu allora che vidi il Pendolo" iii (5)

REVIEW ESSAY Harms, Ingeborg. Restauriete Fresken: Die Brandenburger

Kleist Ausgabe 625 (3)

REVIEWS

Armstrong, Timothy J., ed. Michel Foucault: Philosopher (Horace Fairlamb) 1035 (5)

Beasly, Faith. Revising Memory, Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France (Orest Ranum) 810 (4)

Bialostosky, Don H. Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism (William Galperin) 1068 (5)

Brown, Marshall. Preromanticism (Virgil Nemoianu) 1070 (5) Bywaters, David. Dryden's Revolutionary England (D. N.

DeLuna) 1075 (5) Ciccuto, Marcello. L'immagine del testo (Filippo Grazzini) 196 (1) Corse, Taylor. Dryden's Aeneid: The English Virgil (D. N.

DeLuna) 1075 (5) Dean, Tim. Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (Daniel

Buccino) 1061 (5) Dejean, Joan. Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the

Novel in France (Orest Ranum) 810 (4) Descombes, Vincent. Proust: Philosophy of the Novel (Michael

Sprinker) 1036 (5) Feenberg, Andrew. Critical History of Technology (Albert Liu) 1032 (5) Fenves, Peter D. A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in

Kant (Richard Macksey) 1091 (5) Gonzalez, Eduardo. The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death & Per-

formance in Latin American Fiction (Joel Black) 1064 (5) Graham, Joseph F. Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Liter-

ature (Richard Macksey) 1098 (5) Gray, Margaret. Postmodern Proust (Richard Macksey) 1088 (5) Grotzer, Peter. Die zweite Geburt. Figuren des Jugendlichen in der

Literatur des 20. Hunderts. (Virgil Nemoianu) 1067 (5) Karatani, Kojin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Seiji Lip-

pit) 1058 (5) Livingston, Paisley. Literature and Rationality (Oscar Kenshur) 1028 (5)



Marot, Clement. Oeuvres poetiques completes (Tome I) (Lance K. Donaldson-Evans) 816 (4)

Martin, Adrienne Laskier. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet (Harry Sieber) 410 (2)

Menocal, Maria Rosa. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (Bernhard Teuber) 406 (2)

Miyoshi, Masao. Off Center: Power and Cultural Relations between Japan and the United States (Akira Mizuta Lippit) 1054 (5)

Newmark, Kevin. Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Fu- ture of Reading (Sam Schmidt) 1039 (5)

Pardes, Ilana. Countertraditions in the Bible (Adele Berlin) 1078 (5) Robbins, Jill. Prodigal Son/Younger Brother (Saul Myers) 1082 (5) Ronell, Avital. Crack Wars: Literature-Addiction-Mania (Akira

Mizuta Lippit) 1046 (5) Schmitt, Jean-Claude. La raison des gestes dans l'occident medieval

(Stephen G. Nichols) 806 (4) Six, Abigail Lee. Juan Goytisolo. The Case for Chaos (Noel Valis) 415 (2) Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of

Representation (Henry Sussman) 1044 (5) Tanner, Tony. Venice Desired (Richard Macksey) 1094 (5) Tsuchiya, Akiko. Images of the Sign: Semiotic Consciousness in the

Novels of Benito Perez Galdos (Beth Wietelmann Bauer) 412 (2) Zavarazadeh, Mas'ud. Seeing Films Politically (Donald Morton) 1050 (5)

Macksey, Richard. In Memoriam: Georges Poulet (1902- 1991) 1102 (5)

Macksey, Richard. In Memoriam: Louis Marin (1931-1992) 1107 (5) Macksey, Richard. Incipitque Semper 1109 (5) List of Books Received, Vol. 107/1 203 (1) List of Books Received, Vol. 107/2 418 (2) List of Books Received, Vol. 107/3 634 (3)



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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ITALIAN ISSUE

ARTICLES

Lisa Freinkel. Inferno and the Poetics of Usura 1 Mowbray Allan. Two Dantes: Christian versus Humanist? 18 Eduardo Saccone. Figures of Silence in the Orlando Furioso 36 Roberto Fedi. "L'imagine vera": Vittoria Colonna, Michelan-

gelo, e un'idea di canzoniere 46 Clorinda Donato (ed.). The Letters of Fortunato Bartolomeo

De Felice to Pietro Verri 74 Mirto Golo Stone. Contro la modernita e la cultura borghese: I

promessi sposi e l'ascesa del romanzo italiano 112 Michael Hanne. Silone's Fontamara: Polyvalence and Power 132 Kathryn Hume. Sensuality and the Senses in Calvino's Fiction 160

NOTE

Jone Gaillard. Cavalleria rusticana: Novella, Dramma, Melo- dramma 178

REVIEW

Marcello Ciccuto. L'immagine del testo (Filippo Grazzini) 196 List of Books Received 203

HISPANIC ISSUE

ARTICLES

Myriam Yvonne Jehenson. The Dorotea-Fernando/Luscinda- Cardenio Episode in Don Quijote: A Postmodernist Play 205

Teresa S. Soufas. The Receptive Circuit and the Mise en scene in/of La Estrella de Sevilla 220

Beth Wietelmann Bauer. For Love and Money: Narrative Econ- omies in Misericordia 235

Noel Valis. Fabricating Culture in Cdnovas 250



Brad Epps. The Politics of Ventriloquism: Cava, Revolution and Sexual Discourse in Conde Julian 274

Adelaida L6pez Mejia. Burying the Dead: Repetition in El otono del patriarca 298

Nicasio Urbina. Las mil y una noches y Cien anos de soledad: falsas presencias e influencias definitivas 321

Jose Quiroga. El entierro de la poesia: Huidobro, Nietzsche y Altazor 342

Eva Paulino Bueno. Brazilian Naturalism and the Politics of Origin 363

NOTE

John Dagenais. Mulberries, Sloe Berries; or, Was Dofia Endrina a Mora? 396

REVIEWS

Maria Rosa Menocal. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio. (Bernhard Teuber) 406

Adrienne Laskier Martin. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet. (Harry Sieber) 410

Akiko Tsuchiya. Images of the Sign: Semiotic Consciousness in the Novels of Benito Perez Gald6s. (Beth Wietelmann Bauer) 412

Abigail Lee Six. Juan Goytisolo. The Case for Chaos. (Noel Valis) 415 List of Books Received. 418

GERMAN ISSUE

WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940)

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. I faut 421 Hent de Vries. Anti-Babel: The 'Mystical Postulate' in Ben-

jamin, De Certeau and Derrida 441 Arne Melberg. Benjamin's Reflection 478 Helga Geyer-Ryan. Effects of Abjection in the Texts of Walter

Benjamin 499 Heiner Weidmann. Geistesgegenwart. Das Spiel in Walter Ben-

jamins Passagenarbeit 521 Beryl Schlossman. Benjamin's Uber einige Motive bei Baudelaire:

The Secret Architecture of Correspondances. 548 Eva Geulen. Zeit zur Darstellung. Walter Benjamins Das Kunst-

werk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit 580



NOTE

Carrie L. Asman. Theater and Agon/Agon and Theater: Walter Benjamin and Florens Christian Rang 606

REVIEW ESSAY

Ingeborg Harms. Restaurierte Fresken: Die Brandenburger Kleist Ausgabe 625

List of Books Received 634 Contributors 636

FRENCH ISSUE

ARTICLES

Milad Doueihi. The Politics of Simplicity 639 Louis Marin. Le moi et les pouvoirs de l'image: Glose sur Pyg-

malion, scene lyrique de J.-J. Rousseau 659 Philip Lewis. Writing to the King: Charles Perrault's Dedica-

tory Epistle for the Dictionnaire de l'Academie 673 E. M. Ancekewicz. De la Po6tisation de l'histoire a la politisation

de la po6tique: Histoire et po6sie dans le Traite du poeme epique (1675) du pere Le Bossu 698

Neil Saccamano. Rhetoric, Consensus, and the Law in Rous- seau's Contrat social 730

Rebecca L. Spang. "And they ate the zoo": Relating Gastro- nomic Exoticism in the Siege of Paris 752

Victor Aboulaffia. The Quarrel of the "Vowels" 774 Sally M. Silk. Caught in the Dialogic: The Celinian Narrator

Silenced 795

REVIEWS

Jean-Claude Schmitt, La raison des gestes dans l'occident medieval (Stephen G. Nichols) 806

Faith Beasley, Revising Memory, Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France and Joan Dejean, Tender Geo- graphies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France (Orest Ranum) 810

Clement Marot, Oeuvres poetiques completes (Tome I) (Lance K. Donaldson-Evans) 816



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ISSUE

SWINGING FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM

Editor's Note v Umberto Eco, Reading My Readers 819 Carl A. Rubino, "Oh, Language Diabolical and Holy": Notes on

the Extravagances of Foucault's Pendulum 828 Victoria V. Vernon, The Demonics of (True) Belief: Treacher-

ous Texts, Blasphemous Interpretations, and Murderous Readers 840

Robert Artigiani, Image-Music-Pinball 855 Theresa Coletti, Pinball, Voodoo, and "Good Primal Matter":

Incarnations of Silence in Foucault's Pendulum 877 AliciaJuarrero, The Message Whose Message It Is That There

Is No Message 892

ARTICLES

Kevin Newmark, L'absolu litteraire: Friedrich Schlegel and the Myth of Irony 905

Alfred R. Mele and Paisley Livingston, Intentions and Inter- pretations 931

Paul Miers, The Other Side of Representation: Critical Theory and the New Cognitivism 950

Lynn R. Wilkinson, The Art of Distinction: Proust and the Dreyfus Affair 976

Donald R. Wehrs, Colonialism, Polyvocality, and Islam: L'aven- ture ambigue and Le devoir de violence 1000

REVIEWS

Paisley Livingston, Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction (Oscar Kenshur) 1028

Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology (Albert Liu) 1032 Timothy J. Armstrong, ed. and transl., Michel Foucault: Philos-

opher (Horace Fairlamb) 1035 Vincent Descombes, Proust: Philosophy of the Novel (Michael

Sprinker) 1036 Kevin Newmark, Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future

of Reading (Sam Schmidt) 1039 Susan Stewart, Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of

Representation (Henry Sussman) 1044 Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature-Addiction-Mania (Akira Mi-

zuta Lippit) 1046 Mas'ud Zavarazadeh, Seeing Films Politically (Donald Morton) 1050



Masao Miyoshi, Off Center: Power and Cultural Relations between Japan and the United States (Akira Mizuta Lippit) 1054

Kojin Karatani, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Seiji Lip- pit) 1058

Tim Dean, Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground (Daniel Buccino) 1061

Eduardo Gonzalez, The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction (oel Black) 1064

Peter Grotzer, Die zweite Geburt. Figuren des Jugendlichen in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Virgil Nemoianu) 1067

Don H. Bialostosky, Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism (William Galperin) 1068

Marshall Brown, Preromanticism (Virgil Nemoianu) 1070 David Bywaters, Dryden in Revolutionary England (D. N. De-

Luna) 1075 Taylor Corse, Dryden's Aeneid: The English Virgil (D. N. De-

Luna) 1075 Ilana Pardes, Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach

(Adele Berlin) 1078 Jill Robbins, Prodigal Son/Younger Brother (Saul Myers) 1082 Xnandavardhana, The Dhvanyaloka with the Locana of Abhinav-

agupta (W. G. Regier) 1085 Margaret E. Gray, Postmodern Proust (Richard Macksey) 1088 Peter D. Fenves, A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in

Kant (Richard Macksey) 1091 Tony Tanner, Venice Desired (Richard Macksey) 1094 Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Liter-

ature (Richard Macksey) 1098 Richard Macksey. In Memoriam Georges Poulet

In Memoriam Louis Marin 1102 Richard Macksey. Incipitque Semper 1109 Index: Volume 107 (1992) 1113



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