... of friends. Kavka’s essay is introduced by Demetres Tryphonopoulos. b. Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos  David Ten Eyck’s Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos (Bloomsbury) is a rare book-length study of a specific segment of Pound’s long poem. There is only one precursor to this study, Fred- erick K. Sander’s John...

... in research, and the long row of hefty, black-cloth- bound Bibliography volumes is seldom disturbed. The electronic ver- sion, updated ten times a year, is more complete and more convenient. But the print version had something the electronic one does not: it was organized and suborganized by periods...

...” will become “Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s,” to be undertaken by Jeff Westover, Boise State University, and “Poetry: The 1940s to the Present” will become “Poetry: The 1950s to the Present,” with James Cocola, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, replacing ten-year veteran Frank J. Kearful in that assignment...

.... This chapter on what constituted obscene or o√ensive material illuminates how far we have come. Chapter 4 focuses on at- tempts to silence theater deemed politically subversive, including the FTP, but does not neglect the oft-told tales of the motion picture indus- try, the Hollywood Ten...

... Asian in Gay Video Porn” (1991). So much for retracing the field.Asian American Studies after Critical Mass (Blackwell), a companion to the Companion, contains ten essays plus an introduction by Ono. The chap- ter most germane to this chapter of AmLS is Anita Mannur’s “Culinary Fictions...

... read- ers understand the weak characterization and unoriginal plot elements in Southworth’s The Hidden Hand. According to Ihara, Southworth’s aesthetic reveals her tolerance for fragmentation, multiplicity, and con- tradiction. William Gleason’s “Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and the Visual Culture...

...- sar, Martin Padget, and William Merrill Decker. The first ten of the essays are contributed by male scholars, only the final three by women, however, as if gender were an afterthought. That is, the organization of the volume seems as fair and balanced as Fox News. Overall, the texts discussed...

... pages of galley proofs, and ten pages of page proofs, all with Melville’s corrections, emendations, and commentary. Two appendixes publish Melville’s fair copy of “The Admiral of the White” and the assignment of copyright to Elizabeth Melville. Robillard’s substantial introductions to each...

... will find well- written and nicely focused introductions to the biographies, works, and interests of these authors. Barry Pritzker s Native Americans: An Encyclo- pedia of History, Culture, and Peoples (ABC-CLIO), in two volumes, does not discuss writers at all. But Pritzker s ten chapters treating regions...

...,” with talk creating our communities and world via interactions. The latter sets limits on the former, hence the ten- sion in the plays. Hinz-Bode’s project is to show that Glaspell’s oeuvre is preoccupied with the problem of conveying clear meaning from one mind to another while simultaneously...

.... There are fewer book-length studies, but several are of high quality, especially a book on Twain’s brand of humor. One article is advertised as a “block- buster,” although that remains to be seen. The Mark Twain Annual turns ten and offers tributes to the late Michael J. Kiskis, James M. Cox, and Thomas...

.... Imprisoned in a dismal chamber, or metaphorical closet, that echoes the room Hawthorne occupied for ten years after finishing college, the character of Arvin in the opera stakes his critical interpretation as well as his personal identification on a sense of irredeemable sin embodied in Hawthorne s story...

... is novels, not short stories, this collection, drawn from the “fewer than ten percent” of his stories set in Minnesota, provides Donna M. Campbell 297 another look at the region through Lewis’s eyes. Building on his earlier essay on Dreiser’s and Emily Post’s travel...

.... In the brief but insightful essay “Dollars in Decadence?—A Reconsideration of the ‘Intrigue’ Poems” (SCS 21 [2012]: 2–8) Elizabeth Friedmann focuses on the ten love poems at the end of his collection War Is Kind, conclud- ing that these decadent poems were inspired by his relationship with Cora Crane...

.... is biography is massive, meticulous, thorough, and monumental. When complete, Scharnhorst s work will become the de nitive biography of Mark Twain for this and for many subsequent generations. In Mark Twain at Ten Paces: Facts Versus Fictions in the Origin of Mark Twain as a Nom de Plume (Mark Twain...

... “Humanitarian Ideas in Moby-Dick” (Foreign Literature Studies 4 [1991]: 45–49), arguing that “his survey of the humanitarian theme that runs through Melville’s writings” introduced Chinese scholars to Melville’s Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket. By 2006 ten separate unabridged translations...

... happened to Edwards s paradigm for narrating religious experi- ence also interests Rodger M. Payne, whose The Self and the Sacred: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism (Ten- nessee) indicates that discursive formulae often embody more than their users intend. Although spiritual...

..., at least ten pages, of his pungent opinions. Here he places Twain’s master- piece in ‘‘a very select group of American novels’’ numbering 18 (includ- ing The Scarlet Letter, The Sun Also Rises, and The Crying of Lot 49) and vows that if he could have only one of these ‘‘on the proverbial desert island...

... began with Yarbro-Bejarano’s 1995 Stanford seminar on race, gender, and nation; the essays herein span an almost ten-year period and record the development of a critical prac- tice as much as they trace the di√erent facets of Moraga’s work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public...

...] helps him to experience during his conversion.” In addition, found in Go Tell It on the Mountain are the beginnings of Baldwin’s expression of “the philosophy of brotherly love” that he formulates more fully in The Fire Next Time, published ten years 296 Fiction...