Fall 1978
Table of Contents
Essays
American Theater Watch, 1977-1978
Escape from Fiction: Literature and Didacticism
From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route Map
Hope and Myth in a World of Scarcity
Random Thoughts on Southern Literature, Southern Politics, and the American Future
Some Recent Pentecostal Revivals: A Report in Words and Photographs
The Problem of Poe
Fiction
Doing This, Saying That, To Applause
Proteus
Wild Goose Chase
Poetry
An Evening When the Full Moon Rose as the Sun Set & Walking Where the Plows Have Been Turning
And So It Begins Again
Ararat
John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916)
Letter: A Family Man Explains His Adultery
Limbo
Moving Out
Moving Still
Playing in the Mines
Robert Schumann, or: Musical Genius Begins with Affliction
Thanksgiving, Growing Older
The Curious Cold & Animation and Ego
The Embroidery
Visitations
Waking to Music
What You Already Know
Reviews
on 31 Letters and 13 Dreams by Richard Hugo; Houses and Travellers by W. S. Merwin; & This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood by Robert Bly
on Die Salzburger Emigration in Bildern [the Salzburger Emigration In Pictures]: Schriften Des Nordostdeutschen Kulturwerks e. V. by Angelika Marsch
on Fact and Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel by John Hollowell
on Reflexivity in Tristram Shandy: An Essay in Phenomenological Criticism by James E. Swearingen
on Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken by Joseph Killorin
on The Difference between Night and Day by Bin Ramke; Palm Reading in Winter by Ira Sadoff; Alive and Taking Names by Colette Inez; & To a Blossoming Pear Tree by James Wright
Photography as Myth / Photography as History (on On Photography by Susan Sontag; & Time in a Frame: Photography and the Nineteenth-century Mind by Alan Thomas)
Seeing Georgia Double (on Georgia: A Bicentennial History by Harold H. Martin; & A History of Georgia by Kenneth Coleman, Numan V. Bartley, William F. Holmes, F. N. Boney, Phinizy Spalding, Charles E. Wynes)
The Critical Rule of Thumb (on Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson; Dickens of London by Wolf Mankowitz; Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things by Robert Newsom; & Allegory in Dickens by Jane Vogel)
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