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| LYNN KELLER |
| An Interview with Rae Armantrout |
| Jacob Edmond |
| The Closures of the Open Text: Lyn Hejinian's "Paradise Found" |
| MICHAEL MARAIS |
| Coming into Being: J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man and the Aesthetic of Hospitality |
| ANNE DEWEY |
| Gendered Muses and the Representation of Social Space in Robert Duncan's Poetry |
| ROBIN SILBERGLEID |
Making Things Present: Tim O'Brien’s Autobiographical Metafiction |
| CAMERON FAE BUSHNELL |
| The Art of Tuning: A Politics of Exile in Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music |
| CARTER A. MATHES |
| Scratching the Threshold: Textual Sound and Political Form in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters |
| Reviews |
| SARAH BROUILLETTE |
| The Politics and Production of Contemporary British Writing |
| DAVID HUNTSPERGER |
| From Materialism to Romanticism: The Philosophical Progression of George Oppen's Poetry |
| MELINDA DISTEFANO |
| The Red Power Novel: Revisiting Concepts of Knowledge, Identity, and Experience in American Indian Literature and Studies |
| BILL ALBERTINI |
| Epidemic Stories |
news
In anticipation of the journal’s fiftieth anniversary in Winter 2010, CL is pleased to announce a new Web site, a new editorial collective, and a renewed commitment to publishing the best scholarship on contemporary literary studies.
Contemporary Literature is also hosting a reception in honor of this anniversary at MLA this December. Please check your email for further information.
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