Fall 1980
Table of Contents
Essays
American Theater Watch, 1979-1980
Authors and Authority in Interpretation
Calcutta: Notes on a Homecoming
Limits, Myths, and Morals
Parabiography: The Varieties of Critical Experience
The Fates of Interpretation
The Rebirth of Greek Tragedy and the Decline of the Humanities
Fiction
28 Hours in an Open Boat by Stephen Crane
The Ring
Poetry
A Small Gathering
Dark Craving
Feeding the Stranger’s Fire
His Letters
Last Words to James Wright
Of the Ocean
Old Man Thinking of Small Breasts
Projection: Milk and Memory
Saying Her Name
The Competitors
The Still Lifes of Giorgio Morandi
The Tomb of Stéphan Mallarmé
The Vanishing Street
This Place
Tiwi Woman
Universal Donor
Woman at the Window
Art
Lewis Hine in Georgia
Reviews
Is Literature Still Worth Discussing? (on Critical Understanding: The Power and Limits of Pluralism by Wayne C. Booth)
on The Harvest Festival by Sean O’Casey
on The Inadvertent Epic: From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Roots by Leslie A. Fiedler
on William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, 1920-1940 by Dickran Tashjian
Painting, Picasso, and Politics (on About Looking by John Berger; The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger; & Ways of Seeing by John Berger)
The Untranslatable Poetry of Yvor Winters (on The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters)
The World at Hand (on Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems by Ted Kooser; This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly; Any Body’s Song by Joseph Langland; & The Everlastings by Norman Dubie)
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