Bibliography - Gerald Gillespie

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, REVIEW-ESSAYS

Lohenstein's Protagonists.  Germanic Review, 39 (1964), 101-119.

Space and Time Seen through Stifter's Telescope.  German Quarterly, 37 (1964), 120-130.

Ritualism and Motivic Development in Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer. Neophilologus, 68 (1964), 312-322.

Zum Aufbau von Eichendorffs Eine Meerfahrt.  Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, n. s. 6 (1965), 193-206.

Reality and Fiction in the Novels of Galdós.  Anales Galdosianos, 1 (1966), 11-31.

Dreams and Galdós.  Anales Galdosianos, 1 (1966), 107-115.

Notes on the Evolution of German Renaissance Lyricism.  Modern Language Notes, 81 (1966), 437-462. 

Ceppè de's Sonnet "Cette rouge sueur goutte à goutte roulante."  Explicator, 25 (1966) no. 4.

The Rebel in Seventeenth-Century Tragedy.  Comparative Literature, 18 (1966), 324-336.

Freedom of Conscience in Schiller and Lohenstein.  Kentucky Foreign Language Quarterly, 13 (1966), 237-246.

Origins of Romance Lyrics:  A Review of Research.  Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 16 (1967), 16-32.

Novella, Nouvelle, Novelle, Short Novel?--a Review of Terms.  Neophilologus, 51 (1967), 117-127, 225-230.

Ramón Maria del Valle-Inclán:  The Theatre of Esperpentos.  Drama Survey, 6 (1967), 3-23. [with A. Zahareas]

Suffering in Günther's Poetry.  German Quarterly (1968), 61, 23-38.

Observations on the Form and Tradition of the Novella (Toward a New Appraisal of Valle-Inclán's Tales)  In:  Ramón del Valle-Inclán;  an Appraisal of his Life and Works.  New York:  Las Américas, 1968.  pp. 277-280.

Rosarito and the Novella Tradition.  In:  Ramón del Valle-Inclán.  pp. 281-287. [with A. Zahareas]

La Rosa de Papel.  In:  Ramón del Valle-Inclán.  pp. 615-621.  [with A. Zahareas]

Hemingway and the Happy Few.  Orbis Litterarum, 23 (1968), 287-200.

Galdós and Positivism.  In:  Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature:  Benito Pérez Galdós.  Fredericksburg:  University of Virginia, n.d.  pp. 109-120.

Cosmic Vision in Lohenstein's Poetry.  Neophilologus, 53 (1969), 413-422.

Galdós and the Humoristic Tradition.  Anales Gadosianos, 4 (1969), 99-111.

Bonaventura's Romantic Agony:  Prevision of an Art of Existential Despair.  Modern Language Notes, 85 (1970), 697-726.

Galdós and the Unlocking of the Psyche.  Hispania, 53 (1970), 825-856.

Miau:  hacia una definición de la sensibilidad de Galdós.  Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 250-252 (Oct. 1970-Jan. 1971), 415-429.

Rogues, Fools, and Satyrs:  Ironic Ghosts in American Fiction.  Proceedings of the Comparative Literature Symposium, 5 (1972), 89-106.  

Estreno mundial de El hombre y la mosca de José Ruibal.  Primer Acto, 142 (March 1972), 74.

Night-Piece and Tail-Piece:  Bonaventura's Relation to Hogarth.  Arcadia, 8 (1973), 284-295.

New Apocalypse for Old:  Kermode's Theory of Modernism.  Boundary 2, 3 (1975), 307-323.

Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse":  Short Story Text in its Cyclic Context.  Studies in Short Fiction, 12 (1975), 223-230.

Kreuzgang in the Role of Crispin:  Comedia dell'arte Transformations in Die Nachtwachen.  In:  Herkomen und Erneuerung:  Essays für Oskar Seidlin.  Tübingen:  Niemeyer, 1976.  pp. 185-200.

German and Comparative Literature.  In:  Germanic Studies in the United States:  Assessment and Outlook.  Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1976.  pp. 155-167.

Comparative Literature in the Light of the Budapest Congress.  American Comparative Literature Association Newsletter, 9, no. 2 (1977), 28-30.

Estreno mundial de El hombre y la mosca.  In:  José Ruibal, El hombre y la mosca..  Madrid-Caracas:  Editorial Fundamentos, 1977.  pp. 137-139.  [reprinting of article originally published in Primer Acto, no. 142 (March 1972)]

Harold B. Segel, The Baroque Poem:  A Comparative Survey (New York, 1974)  Modern Language Notes, 92 (1977), 1132-1137.

Academic Freedom and the Pursuit of Comparative Literature.  Journal of General Education, 29 (1977-78), 265-275.

Dream and Calculus in European Baroque Drama.  In:  Critical Dimensions:  English, German, and Comparative Literature Essays in Honor of Aurelio Zanco.  Cuneo:  Saste, 1978.  pp. 181-200.

The Function of Myth in Lohenstein's Arminius:  The Case of Egypt and Prometheus.  Argenis, 2 (1978) 187-228.

Primal Utterance:  Observations on Kuhlmann's Letters to Kircher, in View of Leibniz' Theories.  In:  Wege der Worte:  Festschrift für Wolfgang Fleischhauer.  Köln:  Böhlau, 1978.  pp. 27-46.

Scientific Discourse and Postmodernity:  Francis Bacon and the Empirical Birth of "Revision."  Boundary 2, 7 (1979), 119-148.

Bemerkungen zu Manfred Schmelings Das Spiel im Spiel.  Ein Beitrag zur Vergleichenden Literaturkritik (Saarbrücken 1977).  Die Sprachkunst, 10 (1979), 241-248.

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760-1860:  A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals, 10 vols., ed. John Boening (New York and London, 1977).  Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 4 (1979), 256-264.

Ironic Realism:  The Novel as a Mirror of Civilization (Dos Passos and Barth).  In:  Proceedings of the 7th Congress of ICLA.  2 vols.  Stuttgart:  Kunst und Wissen-Erich Bieber, 1979.  I, 93-102.

Disembodied Voice, Disinherited Mind:  Development in Pre-Romantic and Romantic Fiction.  InterMuse, 2 (1979), 51-58.  [reprinting of article in Proceedings of the 8th Congress of ICLA]

Wielands Agathon als Bildungsroman zwichen Barock und Romantik.  In:  Akten des VI.  Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses Basel 1980.  (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A, Bd. 8, 3) Bern:  Peter Lang, 1980.  Bd. 3.  pp. 344-352.

Andreas Gryphius' Catharina von Georgien als Geschichtsdrama.  In Das Geschichtsdrama, ed. by Elfriede Neubuhr.  Darmstadt:  Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980.  pp. 85-107.

Disembodied Voice, Disinherited Mind:  Developments in Pre-Romantic and Romantic Fiction.  In:  Proceedings of the 8th Congress of ICLA.  Stuttgart:  Kunst und Wissen-Erich Bieber, 1980.  Vol. I, pp. 479-486.

German Poetry 1910-1975:  On Michael Hamburger's Anthology  (Manchester, 1975).  Comparative Criticism, 2 (1980), 313-318.

Romantic Oedipus.  In:  Goethezeit:  Studien zur Erkenntnis Goethes und seiner Zeitgenossen:  Festschrift für Stuart Atkins.  Bern:  Francke, 1981.  pp. 331-345.

Deutsche Literatur im Rahmen der angloameridanischen Komparatistik.  In:  Lehrer und Lernende im Deutschunterricht: Kongressbericht der VI.  Internationalen Deutschlehrertagung.  Berlin and Munich:  Langenscheidt, 1981.  pp. 327-330.

Kleist's Hypothesis of Affective Expression:  Acting-Out in Language.  Seminar, 17 (1981), 275-282.

Education in Utopia.  In:  Europäische Lehrdichtung:  Festschrift für Walter Naumann zum 70.  Geburtstag.  Darmstadt:  Wissen-schaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1981.  pp. 119-131.

Estebanillo and Simplex:  Two Baroque Views of the Role-Playing Rogue in War, Crime, and Art (with an Excursus on Krull's Forebears).  Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 9 (1982), 157-171.

The Incorporation of History as Content and Form:  Anticipations of the Romantic and Modern Novel.  In:  Proceedings of the 9th Congress of ICLA.  Vol. 4.  Innsbruck:  Universität Innsbruck, 1983.  pp. 29-34.

From "Baroque" Michael Drayton to "Enlightened" Ebenezer Cooke:  (Re-) Debunking the American Golden Age.  In:  Erkennen und Deuten:  Essays zur Literatur und Literaturtheorie, Edgar Lohner in memoriam.  Berlin:  Erich Schmidt, 1983.  pp. 326-334.

Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque.  In:  German Baroque Literature:  The European Perspective.  New York:  Ungar, 1983, pp. 3-24.

Lohenstein's Epicharis:  The Play of the Beautiful Loser. Daphnis, 12 (1983), 127-157.

Faust en pataphysicien.  Journal of European Studies, 13 (1983), 98-110.

Fortschritt im Mythos und Mythos vom Fortschritt:  Die Auffassung von Wechsel und Übergang in der Literatur von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart.  Jahrbuch der Berliner Wissenschaftlichen Gessellschaft 1982.  Berlin:  Duncker und Humblot, 1983.  pp. 111-133.  [article, full version of inaugural address as Corresponding Member]

René Wellek Celebrates his Eighth Decade.  Revue de Littérature Comparée, 57 (1983), 279-291.

Die österreichische Literatur:  Ihr Profil an der Wende vom 18. zum 19.  Jahrhundert (1750-1830), ed. by H. Zeman.  Graz, 1979.  IASL, 8 (1983), 279-291.

German Romanticism Today:  Anglo-American and German Perspectives.  German Life and Letters, 37 (1983), 71-90.

Erring and Wayfaring in Baroque Fiction:  The World as Labyrinth and Garden.  Revue de Littérature Comparée, 58 (1984), 277-299.

Problematics of an Empiricist Critique of the Scholarly Search for "Mentalities."  Synthesis, 11 (1984), 45-51.

The Programs in Comparative Literature and Humanities at Stanford.  In:  La Science de la Littérature dans l'Enseignement et dans les Recherches:  Actes du Colloque de l'AILC à Ohrid, Macédonie, 20-25 aout 1981, ed. by Milan Djurcinov and Liljana Todorova.  Skopje:  Université Cyrille et Méthode, 1984.  pp.

Romantic Irony and Anti-Theater.  In:  English and German Romanticism:  Cross-Currents and Controversies, ed. by James Pipkin.  Heidelberg:  Carl Winter, 1985.  pp. 199-213.

Savage Places Revisited:  Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now.  The Comparatist, 9 (1985), 69-88.

Temporal Axes in the Teaching of Comparative and General Literature in the United States.  Neohelicon, 12, no. 1 (1985), 123-130.

Thomas Mann in komparatistischer Sicht:  Die angloamerikanische Auffassung seiner weltliterarischen Geltung.  In:  Deutsche Literatur in der weltliteratur:  Kulturnation statt politischer Nation?,  ed. by Franz Norbert Mennemeier and Conrad Wiedmann.  (Akten des VII.  Kongresses der IVG, Bd. 9) Tübingen, 1986.  pp. 122-126.

Epiphany:  Notes on the Applicability of a Modernist Term.  In:  Sensus Communis:  Contemporary Trends in Comparative Literature (Festschrift für Henry Remak), ed. by Peter Boerner, János Riesz and Bernhard Scholz.  Tübingen, 1986.  pp. 255-266.

Estebanillo and Simplex:  Two Baroque Views of the Rogue-Playing Rogue in War, Crime, and Art (with an Excursus on Krull's Forebears).  In:  Upstarts, Wanderers, or Swindlers:  Anatomy of the Picaro; a Critical Anthology, ed. by Gustavo Pellón and Julio Rodríguez-Luis.  Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 1986.  pp. 285-296.  [shortened reprint of 1982 article]

Bible Lessons:  The Gospel According to Frye, Girard, Kermode, and Voegelin.  Comparative Literature, 38 (1986), 287-297.

Pikara und Schelmin.  In:  Der deutsche Schelmenroman im europäischen Kontext:  Rezeption, Interpretation, Bibliographie, ed. by Gerhart Hoffmeister.  Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 1987, pp. 151-171.

American Internationalism in the Year 2000.  ADFL Bulletin, 18 no. 3 (1987), 41-45  Reprinted in:  Profession 87.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 1987.  pp.20-25.

The Ways of Hermes in the Works of Thomas Mann.  In:  Sinn und Symbol:  Festschrift für Joseph P. Strelka zum 60.  Geburtstag, ed. Karl Konrad Polheim.  Berne, Frankfurt, New York, Paris:  Peter Lang, 1987.  pp. 371-385.

Bible Lessons:  Furai, Jiraru, Kamoudo, Vogerin niyoru "Kuku' insho."  Gendai Shiso, 15, no. 2 (Feb. 1987), 287-297.  [Japanese version of 1986 article in Comparative Literature, translated by Hidehiro Kakao]

Elitist Dilemmas:  Cultural Cross-Currents and Prospects of Comparative Studies on the National and Global Levels.  Journal of Intercultural Studies, 14 (1987), 116-123

Romantic Irony and the Grotesque.  In:  Romantic Irony, ed. by Frederick Garber.  (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, vol. VIII.)  Budapest:  Akadémiai Kiadó; New York:  Humanities Press, 1988.  pp. 322-342.

Romantic Irony and Modern Anti-Theater.  In:  Romantic Irony.  pp. 343-357.

Young Tieck and the Romantic Breakthrough.  Theater Three, no. 4 (spring 1988), 31-44.

The Discourse of Defeat in Nineteenth-Century Narrative.  Neohelicon, 15, no. 1 (winter 1988), 227-236.

Hieroglyphics of Finality in Eichendorff's Lyrics.  German Life and Letters , 42 (1989), 203-218.

Newer Trends of Comparative Studies in the West.  In:  Aspects of Comparative Literature:  Current Approaches , ed. by Chandra Mohan.  New Delhi:  India Publishers and Distributors, 1989.  pp. 17-34.

The Romantic Discourse of Detection in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.  In:  Fiction, narratologie, texte, genre:  Actes du Symposium de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée XI me congrés international (Paris, août 1985), ed. by Jean Bessière.  New York, Berne, Frankfort, Paris:  Peter Lang, 1990.  pp. 203-213.

The Devil's Art.  In:  European Romanticism:  Cross-Currents, Modes, and Models, ed. by Gerhart Hoffmeister.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1990.  pp. 77-95.

Prometheus in the Romantic Age.  In:  European Romanticism,  pp. 197-210.

Cathedral Window Light:  Sacral Spaces of Epiphany in Romantic Literature.  In:  Space and Boundaries in Literature, ed. Roger Bauer, Douwe Fokkema, et al.  Munich:  Judicium Verlag, 1990.  pp. 281-287.

Translation, Quotation, Exemplarity, and Intertextuality:  Some Case Histories of Postmodern Prose and Poetry (Borges, Barth, Coover, Paz, et al.).  In:  Os Estudios literários:  Entre Ciência e hermenêutica; Actas do 1.  Congresso de APLC, 2 vols., ed. Maria Alzira Seixo.  Lisboa:  Reprografia da A.E.F.L.L.. 1990.  Vol. I, pp. 31-37.

Anticipations of Rousseau in the Philosophic Poetry of His Countryman Albrecht Haller.  In:  Aesthetics and the Literature of Ideas:  Essays in Honor of A. Owen Aldridge, ed. by François Jost.  Newark:  University of Delaware Press, 1990.  pp. 241-251.

Humanistic Aspects of the Early Baroque Opera Libretto after the Italian Fashion (Opitz, Harsdörffer, Anton Ulrich).  Chloe, 9 (1990), 151-170. 

Personal Reminiscences about Yang Zhouhan.  Chinese Comparative Literature Bulletin, 11 (1990), 3-9.

Here comes Everybody/Nobody:  Self as Overly Edited Palimpsest.  New Comparison, 9 (spring 1990), 3-15.

Woyi Yang Zhouhan.  Bijiao Wenxuë Bao (Comparative Literature Journal), 3 (1990), 2a-d.  [shortened Chinese version of article in CCLB]

German Romantic Realism in the European Context:  Reflections on Tieck's, Kleist's, and Meyer's Treatment of History.  In:  Fide et Amore:  A Festschrift for Hugo Bekker on his Sixty-fifth Birthday, ed. by William C. McDonald and Winder McConnell . Göppingen:  Kümmerle Verlag, 1990.  pp. 121-135.

Passion, Piety, and Politics:  Lohenstein's Ibrahim Sultan and Tristan L'Hermite's Osman.  In:  Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, ed. by James Parente, Richard E. Schade, and George C. Schoolfield.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1991.  pp. 78-88.

Educational Experiment in Thomas Mann.  In:  Reflection and Action:  Essays on the German Bildungsroman, ed. by James Hardin.  Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press, 1991.  pp. 362-381.

The "Impossibility" of Comparative Literature, or Coping with Cultural Diversity.  In:  Comparative Literature and National Literatures:  Differential Multilogue, ed. by Gurbaghat Singh.  Delhi:  Ajanta Publications, 1991.  pp. 20-32.

L'avènement de l'esprit nouveau en Europe.  Neohelicon, 18, no. 2 (1991), 339-345.  [review-essay on Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner, and André Stegmann, eds., L'époque de la Renaissance 1400-1600, I:  L'avènement de l'esprit nouveau.  Budapest:  Akadémiai Kiadó, 1988]

Mann and the Modernist Tradition.  In:  Approaches to Teaching Mann's "Death in Venice" and Other Short Fiction, ed. by Jeffrey B. Berlin.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 1992.  pp. 93-104.

Afterthoughts of Hamlet:  Goethe's Wilheim, Joyce's Stephen.  In:  Comparative Literary History as Discourse:  In Honor of Anna Balakian, ed. by Mario Valdés, Daniel Javitch, and A. Owen Aldridge.  Berne:  Peter Lang, 1992.  pp. 286-304.

Artists, Ephebes, and Brownshirts:  Thomas Mann's Critical Insight into the 1934 Purge.  German Life and Letters, 45 (1992), 203-206.

Theoretical Wishdream and Textual Actuality:  The Polyglot Renga  by Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson.  In:  Countercurrents:  On the Primacy of Texts in Literary Criticism, ed. by Raymond A. Prier.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1992, pp. 52-69.

Imagined and Witnessed Pagan Frolics:  Examples of Narrative Sophistication in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.  In:  "Der Buchstab tödt--der Geist macht lebendig:  Festschrift zum 60.  Geburtstag von Hans-Gert Roloff, 2 vols., ed. by James Hardin.  Berne:  Lang, 1992.  Vol. I, pp. 951-965.

Rhinoceros, Unicorn, or Chimera?--A Polysystemic View of Possible Kinds of Comparative Literature in the New Century.  Journal of Intercultural Studies, 19 (1992), 14-21.

Critical Introduction to German Theater Before 1750, ed. Gerald Gillespie.  New York:  Continuum, 1992.  pp. xi-xxix.

Bonaventura and the Romantic Agony.  In:  Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism.  Ed. by Paul Kepos.  Detroit:  Gale Research, 1992.  pp. 86-93. [reprint of Introduction from 1971 Edinburgh bilingual edition]

Seisei hatten suru shahon:  Kindai Airurando bungaku ni okeru chi no rei to shinwateki funhensei.  In:  International Comparative Literature Seminar at Yugakukan:  Traditional Cultures and Their Universalities:  Basho, Mokichi, and Miyazawa Kenji.  [original vol. title in Japanese]  Yamagata City:  Yamagata Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center, 1993.  pp. 69-76.

¿Novella, nouvelle, novela (corta), short novel?--Una revisión de términos.  In:  Del cuento y sus alrededores:  Aproximaciones a una teoria del cuento, ed. Carlos Pacheco and Luis Barrera Linares.  Caracas:  Monte Ávila Latinoamericana, C.A., 1993.  pp.129-146.  [Spanish reprint of 1967 article]

Reality and Fiction in the Novels of Galdós.  In:  Galdós, ed. by Jo Labanyi.  Essex:  Longman, 1993.  pp. 77-102.  [reprint of 1966 article]

Prime Coordinates in Modernist Cultural Mappings.  New Comparison, 16 (Autumn 1993), 149-156.

The Difficulty of Correlating Psychohistorical Analysis with a General History of Literature.  Comparatistica, 5 (1993), 41-53. 

Preface to Yves Chevrel, Comparative Literature, trans. F. E. Dahab.  Kirksville:  Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1993.

The Living Palimpsest; or, Irish Japanesily.  In:  Celebrating Comparativism:  Papers Offered for György M. Vajda and István Fried, ed. József Pál and Katalin Kürtösi.  Szeged:  University of Szeged, 1994.  pp. 339-347.

From Duplicitous Delinquent to Superlative Simpleton:  Simplicissimus and the German Baroque.  In:  The Picaresque:  A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale, ed. Michael Zappala and Carmen Benito Vessels.  Newark:  University of Delaware Press, 1994.  pp. 107-122.

Hometruth and Institutional Falsehoods.  In:  Building a Profession:  Autobiographical Perspectives on the History of Comparative Literature in the United States, ed. by Mihai Spariousu and Lionel Grossman.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1994.  pp. 159-175.

Classic Vision in the Romantic Age:  Goethe's Reconstitution of European Drama in Faust II.  In:  Romantic Drama, edited by Gerald Gillespie.  (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, vol. IX.)  Amsterdam and Philadelphia:  John Benjamins, 1994.  pp. 379-98.

Cinematic Narration in the Modernist Novel.  In:  Narrative: A Seminar, ed. by Amiya Dev.  New Delhi:  Sahitya Akademi, 1994.  pp. 293-302.

Rinoceronti, unicorni   o chimera?  Una   prospettiva polisistemica intorno ai possibili sviluppi delle letterarture comparate nel Duemila.  Asino d’oro, 5:10 (1994), 82-92.

The Past is Prologue:  The Romantic Heritage in Dramatic Literature.  In:  Romantic Drama.  pp. 429-64.

Introduction.  Romantic Drama.  pp. ix.-xvi.

Scientific Discourse and Postmodernity:  Francis Bacon and the Empirical Birth of "Revision."  In:  Early Postmodernism:  Foundational Essays, ed. by Paul A. Bové.  Durham and London:  Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 232-64.  [article reprinted from Boundary 2]

Auf den multikulturellen Irrwegen der amerikanischen Komparatistik:  Kontrast und Mahnbild für ein junges Europa.  In:  Weltiliteratur heute, ed. Manfred Schmeling.  Würzburg:  Königshausen & Neumann, 1995.  pp. 85-99.

Préface et Introduction.  Powers of Narration/Les pouvoirs de la narration, ed. Gerald Gillespie and André Lorant.  In:  The Force of Vision, 6 vols.  Tokyo:  Tokyo University Press, 1995.  III.  1-27.

Introduction.  Visions in History/Les visions dans l'histoire, ed. Gerald Gillespie.  In:  The Force of Vision.  6 vols.  Tokyo:  Tokyo University Press, 1995.  II:  3-8.

Structures of the Self and Narrative in European Literature.  In:  Drama of Desire/Drame du désir, ed. Ziva Ben-Porat and Hana Wirth-Nesher.  In:  The Force of Vision.  6 vols. Tokyo:  Tokyo University Press, 1995.  I:  174-80.

Mysterious and Terrifying Others since Late Romanticism.  In:  Hommage au Professeur Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga.  Synthesis, 22 (1995), 37-43.

Alienation on the Edge:  Re-Discovery of Self and Other in the Global Context Created by the Renaissance.  In:  "Limites": Actos do III Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada.  2 vols. Rio de Janeiro, 1995.  1: 555-63

Reconnecting with Literary Culture.  Pacific Coast Philology, 30 (1995), 123-29.

La Literatura comparada de los años 90 en Estados Unidos.  1616, 9 (1995), 39-49.

The Revelance of Irrelevance:  Games and Puzzles in the Humoristic Tradition since the Renaissance.  Journal of Literary Studies/Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap, 11 (1995), 62-81.  [reprinted from Actas del X Simposio de la SELGyC]

European Cultural Identity:  Shifting American Perspectives.  SPIEL, 14 (1995), Heft 2, 1-12.

Visionary Peaks in the European Tradition.  In:  Ideal Places in History East and West, ed. Haga Toru.  Kyoto:  International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1995.  pp. 13-35.  [English text is accompanied by a translation into Japanese]

The Graduate Curriculum:  What's Right/Wrong with it?  In:  The Future of Germanistik in the USA:  Changing Our Prospects.  Ed. John A. McCarthy and Katrin Schneider.  Nashville:  Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.  pp. 91-98.

Baroque High:  Above It All with Balde.  In:  "Life's Golden Tree":  Festschrift for Robert Browning.  Ed. Thomas Kerth and George Schoolfield.  Columbia, SC:  Camden House, 1996.  pp. 56-63.

Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History.  In:  The Search for a New Alphabet:  Literary Studies in a Changing World.  Ed. Harald Hendrix, Joost Kloek, Sophie Levie, and Will van Peer.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, 1996.  pp. 83-88.

City of Wo/man:  Labyrinth.  Wilderness, Garden.  Comparative Criticism, 19 (1996), 1-19.

The Internationalization of Comparative Literature in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.  CNL/World Report, 9 (1996), 13-42.

The Relevance of Irrelevance:  Games and Puzzles in the Humoristic Tradition since the Renaissance.  In:  Actas del X Simposio de la Asociación Española de Literatura General y Comparada, ed. by Fernando Cabo.  Santiago:  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1996.  pp. 39-56.

Domesticating Don Juan.  Dedalus, 6 (1996), 207-20.

The Spaces of Truth and Cathedral Window Light.  Literator, 17 (1996), 93-118.

Cultural Modernization and Political Correctness.  Man and Nature Working Papers, no. 87 (October, 1996).

Reconnecting with Literary Culture.  Chinese-Foreign Cultures and Literary Theory, 2 (1996), 52-61.  [Chinese reprint of article in Pacific Coast Philology]

A internacionalização da literatura comparada na segunda metade do século xx.  Revista da Cultura, 29 (Oct.-Dec. 1996), 9-24. [Portuguese version of article in CNL/World Report]

"Where" is Fin-de-Siècle Nature?  In:  Nature:  Literature and its Otherness/La Littérature et son autre, ed. by Svend Erik Larsen, Anneise Ballegaard, and Morten Nøjgaard.  Odense:  Odense University Press, 1997.  pp. 191-204.

The Haunted Narrator before the Gate.  In:  Narrative Ironies, ed. Raymond A. Prier and Gerald Gillespie.  Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 1997.  pp. 33-49.

The Significance and Limits of Cultural Relativism.  In:  Cultural Dialogue and Misreading, ed. Mabel Lee and Meng Hua.  Sydney:  Wild Peony Press, 1997.  pp. 3-10.

Comparative Literature of the 1990s in the U.S.A.  In:  Comparative Literature Worldwide:  Issues and Methods/La Littérature comparée dans le monde:  Questions et Méthodes, ed. Tânia Franco Carvalhal.  Porto Alegre:  L & PM Editores, 1997, pp. 15-37.

Literatura comparada nos Estados Unidos nos anos 90. In:  Literatura comparada no mundo:  Questões e Métodos/Literatura comparada en el mundo:  Cuestiones y métodos, ed. Tânia Franco Carvalhal.  Porto Alegre:  L & PM Editores, 1997.  pp. 13-37.  [Portuguese version of article in Comparative Literature Worldwide]

Regionalismo, globalismo e a filosofia da história.  In:  Continente Sul/Sur, no. 4 (June, 1997), 113-21. [Portuguese version of article in Martino Festschrift]

Guanyu bijiaowenxue de yixie sikao--goji bijaiowenxuexiehui zhuxi Jielliesibi jiaoshou caifanglu--Zhu Hui.  [Some Thoughts on Comparative Literature--Interview with Prof. Gerald E.P. Gillespie, President of ICLA, by Zhu Hui].  Comparative Literature in China, 27 (1997). 109-19.

Regionalism, Globalism, and the Philosophy of History:  A "New-World" Perspective on Comparatism.  In: Beiträge zur Komparatistik und Sozialgeschichte der Literatur: Festschrift für Alberto Martino.  Chloe, Bd. 26. Norbert Bachleitner, Alfred Noe, and Hans-Gert Roloff, Amsterdam; Rodopi,1997.  pp. 879-87.

The Example and Promise of Comparative Literature.  ICLA Bulletin, 17:1-2 (1997), 49-54.

Proust, Mann, and Joyce Reassembling the Intertext "out of Time."  In:  Parodia, pastiche, mimetismo:  Atti del convegno internazionale de letteratura comparate (Venezia 13-15 Ottobre 1993). Ed. Paola Mildonian.  Roma:  Bulzoni Editore, 1997.  pp. 267-74.

Literature: Primitive Vestige, Mechanical Art, and/or Human Science.  In: The Place and Function of Literature in the Next Millenium.  Special Issue of SPIEL, 16, Nos. 1-2 (1997), 132-35.

Mallarmé and Germany.  In:  Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century, ed. Robert G. Cohn and Gerald Gillespie.  Cranbury, NJ, London:  Associated University Presses, 1998. pp. 212-20.

¿Rinoceronte, unicornio o quimera?  Visión polisistémica de una posible tipología de la literatura comparada en el próximo siglo.  In:  Orientaciones en literatura comparada, ed. Dolores Romero López.  Madrid:  Arco/Libros, S.L., 1998.  pp. 173-86.  [Spanish version of article in Journal of Intercultural Studies]

Gutenberg Recycled.  Neurosurgery 43: 1 (Jan. 1999), 5-8.

Agents and Agency of History in Romantic Literature.  In: The People’s Voice: Essays on European Romanticism, ed. Andrea Ciccarelli, John C. Isbell, and Brian Nelson.  Monash Romance Studies, 4.  Clayton-Melbourne (Vic.): Monash University, 1999.  pp. 46-61.

The Music of Things and the Hieroglyphics of Family Talk in the fictions of James Joyce.  Special Issue In Honor of Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Prism(s), 7(1999), 73-81.

The Significance and Limits of Cultural Relativism.  In: Transmision of Culture and Literary Images, ed.  Yue Daiyun and Zhang Hui.  Beijing: Peking University Press, 1999. pp. 5-11. [Chinese version of article in Cultural Dialogue and Misreading]

Yang Zhouhan and the Restart of Comparative Literature as an Academic Discipline in China.  Comparative Literature in China, 36, n. 3 (1999) 23-27. [In Chinese, trans. by Xu Yanhong]

The Modernization Thesis and Comparative Literature: Notes toward a Discussion.  In: Under Construction: Links for the Site of Literary Theory; Essays in Honour of Hendrik van Gorp. Ed. Dirk de Geest, Ortwin de Graef, Dirk Delabastida, Koenraad Geldorf, Rita Ghesquière, José Lambert.  Leuven: Leuven University Press 2000.  pp. 359-68.

Identity and Otherness in Joyce’s Ulysses.  In: Tautótita kai Eterótita sti Logotechnía,18os-20ós ai./Identity and Alterity in Literature, 18th-20th c.  Ed. Eleni Politou-Marmarinou, Sophia Denissi, Z. I. Siaflekis, and Rania Polycandrioti.  2 vols.  Athens: Domos,2000 2: 271-77.  

Renewal of Discourse and Identity in the Foundational Romance:  The Example of John Barth and Alejo Carpentier.  In: Renaissance  Humanism-Modern Humanism(s): Festschrift for Claus Uhlig, ed. Walter Göbel and Bianca Ross. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2001.  pp.313-19

Anthropological Time Warps: Thoughts on the Relation between Literary History and the History of Science.  In: Cercetarea literara zai: Studii dedicate professorului Paul Cornea. Ed. Liviu Papadima and Mircea Vasilescu. Bucharest: Editura Polirom, 2001. Pp. 215-21.

Beyond Our Romantic Agony; or, toward a Unified Theory of the Arts, Again.  Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 49 (2001), 21-38.

Multilingualism in the High Modernist Novel and Poem.  In: Multilinguale Literatur im 20.  Jahrhundert.  Ed. Manfred Schmeling and Monika Schmitz-Emans.  Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002.  Pp. 51-57.

In Search of the Noble Savage: Some Romantic Cases.  Neohelicon, 29:1 (winter 2002), 89-95.

The Language of Father, Mother, and Child in the Fiction of James Joyce.  In: Children in Literature -- Children’s Literature: Acta of the XXth Fillm Congress 1996, Regensburg, Germany.  Ed. Paul Neubauer.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002.  Pp. 147-52.

Selfhood in the Modernist Novel.  In: The I of the Beholder: A Prolegomenon to the Intercultural Study of Self.  Ed. Steven P. Sondrup and J. Scott Miller.  Provo, Utah: ICLA Intercultural Studies Committee, 2002.  pp. 21-32.

Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann. In: Multiculturalisme et identité en littérature et en art. Ed. Jean Bessière and Sylvie André. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. pp. 305-17.

The Fine Art of Erotic Dreaming in Eighteen-Century Literature.  In: The Dream and the Enlightenment/Le rêve et les Lumières.  Ed. Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel.  Paris: Honoré Champion Editeur, 2003, pp. 289-307.

Portraits of the Artist as a Young Siegfried: Mann’s Felix and Joyce’s Stephen Approach the Supreme Mysteries.  In: The Finer Grain: Essays for Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Ed. Richard Aczel and Péter Nemes. Bloomington: Indiana University, 2003, 161-68.

Nexus and Connection in the Modern City.  In: La mémoire des villes: The Memory of Cities.  Ed. Bernard Dieterle. Saint-Etienne: UniversitéJean Monnet, 2003, 379-401.

The Conflict Between Synthetic Globalism and the Desire for Cultural Identity. Interlitteraria, 8 (2003, 10-17.

La progression du mythe et le mythe du progrès: Transition et changement depuis la Renaissance. Interlitteraria, 8 (2003), 156-177.

Comparative Literary History as an Elitist Metanarrative. Neohelicon, 30.2 (autumn 2003), 59-64.

Illustrating the Theme of Transcience in Brentano's Poem "Schwanenlied." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 50 (2003), 15-22.

From the Galaxy Nostalgia. In: Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Fantasy. Ed. by George Slusser and Jean-Pierre Barricelli. Riverside, CA: Xenos Books, 2003, pp. 41-44.

The Conflict between Synthetic Globalism and the Desire for Cultural Identity. In: Cybernetic Ghosts: Literature in the Age of Theory and Technology. Ed. Dorothy Figueria. Provo, Utah: International Comparative Literature Association, 2004. 91-98.

Illustrating the Theme of Transcience in Brentano's Poem "Schwanenlied" through Annotated Interlinear Translation. In: Dialektik des Verstehens: Studien zur interkulturellen Literatur-, Sprach-, und Geistesgeschichte.; Festschrift für Walter Veit. Ed. Helmut Heinze, Christiane Weller, and Heinz Kreutz. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. 344-49. [reprinted from YCGL].

Romatic Discourse on the Visual Arts. In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Boundaries. Ed. Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoianu, with Gerald Gillespie. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004, pp. 377-402.

Some Shape Shiftings of the Divine Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Literature. In Elogio da Lucidez: A Comparação Literária em Âmbito Universal: Textos em homenagem a Tania Franco Carvalhal. Ed. Eduardo Coutinho, Lisa Block de Behar, and Sara Viola Rodrigues. Porto Alegre: Evengraf, 2004, pp. 39-43.

Métissage as a Universal Principle in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In: Métissages: Actes du XXXIIe Congrès de la SFLGC (Saint-Etienne, 8-10 septembre 2004). Ed. Bernard Dieterle and Yves Clavaron. Saint-Etienne: Université Jean Monnet, 2005.

Miroitement de l'Europe dans les littératures du Nouveau Monde. In: Métissages.

Lafcadio Hearn and Kate Chopin as mediators of Francophone Lousiana Culture. Cartographies: Mélanges offerts à Marie Alzira Seixo. Arine 18-20 (2003-2005), 267-75.

Articles in progress

Traveling into the Abyss.

Literary Studies: General and Comparative. Neohelicon.

Schopenhauer's Shadow, or Stephen as Philosophic "Supermann." In: Bloomsday 100. Ed. Morris Beja and Anne Fogarty.-

Nein oder Ja: Kabbalistische Züge in den Romanen von Kafka und Joyce. In: Kafka und die Weltliteratur. Ed. Manfred Engel and Dieter Lamping.

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Giancarlo Maiorino, The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts and The Portrait of Eccentricity:  Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque (University Park and London, 1990 and 1991).  Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. 18 (1991), 607-611.

Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, eds., The Literary Guide to the Bible (Cambridge, Mass., 1987).  Comparative Literature, 43 (1991), 81-82.

János Reisz and Joachim Schultz, eds., Les Tirailleurs sénégalais:  Zur bildlichen und literarischen Darstellung afrikanischer Soldaten im Dienste Frankeichs--Presentations littéraires et figuratives de soldats africains au service de la France (Frankfurt, Bern, New York, Paris, 1989).  Research in African Literatures, 22 (1991), 138-140.

A New Vision of Eliot's Modernism.  Neohelicon,18, no. 1 (1991), 283-286.  [review of Ferenc Takács, T. S. Eliot and the Language of Poetry (Budapest, 1989)]

David B. Dickens.  Negative Spring:  Crisis Imagery in the Works of Brentano, Lenau, Rilke and T. S. Eliot (New York, Bern, 1989).  Recherche littéraire, 16-17 (summer-winter 1991), 39.

Peter Boerner and Sidney Johnson, eds., Faust through Four Centuries: Retrospect and Analysis: Vierhundert Jahre Faust:  Rückblick und Analyse (Tübingen, 1989).  Goethe Yearbook, 6 (1992), 235-40.

Elizabeth Wesseling, Writing History as a Prophet:  Postmodernist Innovations of the Historical Novel (Amsterdam, Philadelphia, 1991).  Recherche littéraire, 18 (summer 1992), 40-41.

Gurbaghat Singh, Transcultural Poetics:  Comparative Studies of Ezra Pound's "Cantos" and Gurn Bobind Singh's "Bachittra Natak" (Delhi, 1988).  Recherche littéraire, 18 (summer 1992), 35-36.

Ricardo Quiñones,  The Changes of Cain:  Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature (Princeton, 1991). World Literature Today, 67, no. 1 (winter 1993), 245-246.

Frederick Burwick, Illusion and the Drama:  Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era (University Park, Penn., 1991).  Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 92 (1993), 397-398.

Mihai Spariosu, Dionysus Reborn:  Play and the Aesthetic Dimension in Modern Philosophical and Scientific Discourse (Ithaca, 1989).  Comparative Literature, 45 (1993), 61-63.

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:  Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New Haven, 1990).  Comparative Literature, 45 (1993), 180-184.

Itamar Even-Zohar, Polysystem Studies, special issue of Poetics Today, 11:1 (spring 1990).  Comparative Literature, 45 (1993), 374-377.

Giancarlo Maiorino, Leonardo Da Vinci:  The Daedalian Mythmaker (University Park, Penna., 1992).  Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 41 (1993), 206-208.

R. Rawdon Wilson, In Palamedes' Shadow:  Explorations in Play, Game, and Narrative Theory (Boston, 1990).  Comparative Literature, 46 (1994), 94-96.

Ernst Behler, Irony and the Discourse of Modernity (Seattle, 1990).  Comparative Literature, 46 (1994), 215-217.

Jean Weisgerber, La muse des jardins: Jardins de l'Europe littéraire, 1580-1700 (Bruxelles, 2002), Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, 20, no. 39-40 (2004), 422-23.

Suzanne Nalbantian, Memory in Literature: From Roussean to Neuroscience. Basingstroke, Haunts.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 51 (2003).

Werner Wolf, Ästhetische Illusion und Illusionsdurchbrechung in der Erzählkunst:  Theorie und Geschichte mit Schwerpunkt auf englischem illusionsstörenden Erzählen (Tübingen, 1993). Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 20:  1 (1995).

Werner von Koppenfels, Bild und Metamorphose:  Paradigmen einer europäischen Komparatistik (Darmstadt, 1991).  New Comparison, 21 (spring 1996), 184-186.

Anna Balakian, The Snowflake on the Belfry:  Dogma and Disquietude in the Critical Arena (Bloomington, 1994). Comparative Literature, 49 (1997), 78-81.

John L'Heureux, The Handmaid of Desire (New York:  Soho Press  1996).  Academic Questions, 10:2 (spring, 1997), 87-94.

Kenneth M. Ralston, The Captured Horizon:  Heidegger and the "Night Watches von Bonaventura" (Tübingen, 1994).  Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 97 (1998), 80-83.

Lubomír Doležel, Occidental Poetics:  Tradition and Progress (Lincoln and London, 1990).  New Comparison,

Dorothea Kullman, ed., Erlebte Rede und impressionistischer Stil:  Europäische Erzählprosa im Vergleich mit ihren deutschen Übersetzungen (Göttingen, 1995).  New Comparison, 23 (spring 1997), 150.

Laurus Austriaco-Hungarica:  Literarische Gattungen und Politik in der zweiten Hälfte des 17, Jahruhunderts, ed. Béla Köpeczi and Andor Tarnai (Budapest, Wien, 1988).  Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 24 (1997), 404-5.

Marina Allemano, Historical Portraits and Visions:  From Walter Scott's "Waverly" to Michel Tournier's "Le Roi des Aulnes" and Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (New York:  Garland, 1991).  Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 24 (1997), 412-14.

Donald Kennedy, Academic Duty (Cambridge, MA, 1997). Heteroxdoxy, 6:1 (February,1998), 14-15.

Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, eds.  International Postmodernism:  Theory and Literary Practice.  Amsterdam and Philadelphia:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997.  Comparative Literature, 50, (1998), 255-57.

Jonathan Hart (ed.), Reading the Renaissance:  Culture, Poetics, and Drama (New York, London:  Garland, 1996).  Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 25 (1998), 245-47.

Manfred Engel and Dieter Lamping (eds.)  Rilke und die Weltliteratur (Zürich, Düsseldorf: Artemis und Winkler Verlag, 1999), Comparative Literature, 53(2001), 265-68.

Valeria Wagner, Bound to Act: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).  The Comparatist, 25 (2001), 164-66.               

“One Reader’s Hypotext is Another’s Hypertext.”  James Joyce Literary Supplement, 16, no. 1 (spring 2002), 21-22.

Hoa Hoï Vuong, Musiques de roman: Proust, Mann, Joyce (Bruxelle, 2003). Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, 20, no. 39-40 (2003), 418-21.

Harold Mah, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914 (Ithaca and London, 2003). Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire. 20, no. 39-40 (2003), 393-95.

"Pain that Was not Yet the Pain of Love." James Joyce Literary Supplement, 18, no. 1 (spring 2004), 13-14.

Eric Hayot, Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004).

 TRANSLATIONS

Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Lights of Bohemia, Kenyon Review No. 117 (1967), 610-661.  [With commentary, in collaboration with Anthony Zahareas.]

Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Lights of Bohemia.  Modern International Drama, 2, no. 2 (1969), 53-97.  [Full version of the play produced in its English world premiere by the Oxford Theatre Group at the Edinburgh Festival in August, 1968.]

Julio Matas, "Es el reino del sol" ("It is the realm of the sun").  Mundus Artium, 4, no. 7 (Winter 1970), 74-77.

Echoing Paradigms:  Translating Meyer and George.  Paintbrush, 4, nos 7 and 8 (spring and autumn 1977), 53-54.

"Theater in the Theater" and "World Theater":  Play Thematics and the Breakthrough of Romantic Drama, by Manfred Schmeling.  In:  Romantic Drama, pp. 35-57.  [translation from the original German, with Simon Sreberny]

Romanticism in the Dramatic Genres of Bohemia, by Hana Voisine-Jechova.  In:  Romantic Drama, pp. 287-296.  [translation from the original French]

Romantic Drama in the Americas, III:  Iberoamerican Literature, by Emilio Carilla.  In:  Romantic Drama, pp. 361-375.  [translation from the original Spanish]                                                                         

MISCELLANEOUS

Lohenstein als Marinist.  In:  Deutsche Barockliteratur und europäische Kultur:  2.  Jahrestreffen des Internationalen Arbeitskreises für Deutsche Barockliteratur, ed. by Martin Bircher and Eberhard Mannack (Band e, Dokumente des IadB [1977]), p. 213.  [author's abstract of paper given at Wolfenbüttel in 1976]

Réunion du Bureau de L'AILC à Ohrid.  ICLA Bulletin, 3, no. 2 (autumn 1981), 1-3.  [report with Yves Chevrel]

Rapport des Secrétaires de 1'AILC pour les années 1979-82 présenté à l'Assemblée Générale à New York, 24 août 1982; Réunion du Bureau de 1'AILC, New York, 22 août 1982; Réunion du Bureau, New York, 28 août 1982.  ICLA Bulletin, 4, nos. 1 and 2 (autumn-­winter 1982-83), 1-6. [reports with Yves Chevrel]

Minutes of the General Assembly of the International Comparative Literature Association, New York, August 28, 1982. ICLA Bulletin, 4, nos. 1 and 2 (autumn-winter 1982-83), 10-15. [report]

Remarks on the Activities of ICLA/AILC, on the Occasion of Our Meeting with the Austrian Academy of Sciences on 28 October 1983. Neohelicon, 12, no. 2, 319-322. [report, author's own translation of original German version, "Bemerkungen über die Aktivität der AILC/ICLA, anlässlich des Treffens mit der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 28. Oktober 1983"]

ICLA Congress, General Assembly, Paris, 20 August 1985:  Report of the Secretaries.  ICLA Bulletin, 6, no. 2 (fall 1985), 3-6.  [report, with Yves Chevrel]

Yang Zhouhan.  Comparative Literature, 39 (1987), 255.  [biographical sketch]

Report on Comparative Literature and International Studles (from the ACLA Committee on Comparative Literature and International Studies). ACLS Newsletter 19, no. 2 (spring 1988), 5-26. [with Elizaheth W. Trahan, Peter Firchow, Anne Paolucci, and Anthony Yu]

A Letter from the President.  ICLA Bulletin, 14, no. 2 (autumn 1994), 3-5. [report]

Working Rhythms of ICLA/AILC:  An Addendum to Steven Tötösy's Report on the XIV Triennial Congress at Edmonton.  Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 22 (1995), 149-153.  [report]

Working Rhythms of ICLA,  ICLA Bulletin, 15, no. 1 (winter-spring, 1995), 3-7. [report, reprinted from CRCL]

Walter Naumann in memoriam.  Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 45-46  (1997/1998), 201-203.

The Toronto Conference.  The ALSC Newsletter, 4, no.4 (fall 1998), 6-7, 11. [report]

Remembering Anna Balakian.  Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, 31 (spring-summer 1999), 7-11.

Association Internationale de Littrature Comparée/The International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA). Diogéne, no. 198 (June 2002), 141-5. [report on activities and relations with FILLM].

INVITED LECTURES AND COLLOQUIA (selected)

1962

Lohenstein's Dramatic Authority.  Philological Association of the Pacific Coast (Berkeley)

1964

Ritualism and Motivic Development in Stifter's Nachsommer.  German 4, Modern Language Association (Chicago)

Schiller and Lohenstein.  University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington)

1966

Beyond Realism--Galdós' Late Work.  Spanish 4, Modern Language Association (New York)

1967

Hemingway and the Novella.  University of Pittsburgh

Rabelais  gogo.  Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts)

Galdós and Positivism.  University of Virginia (Fredericksburg)

1968

Hofmannswaldau's Experience of Nausea.  University of Leicester (England)

Hofmannswaldau's Experience of Nausea; Bonaventura and the Romantic Agony.  University of Swansea (Wales)

Bonaventura and the Romantic Agony.  University of Glasgow (Scotland)

Bonaventura and the Romantic Agony.  University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

1969

Bonaventura.  University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

1970

Bonaventura and Romanticism.  Humanities Conference, State University of New York (Binghamton)

1971

German Seventeenth-Century Drama.  College of Humanities, University of Texas (Austin)

1972

Melville and Barth.  Fifth Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University (Lubbock)

Bearding (Bearded by) Barth.  English Graduate Colloquium, SUNY (Binghamton)

European High Baroque Tragedy.  North East Modern Language Association, Skidmore College (Saratoga, New York)

Folly in Medieval and Renaissance Literature and the Erasmian Tradition.  Cervantes Symposium, New York University

1973

Ego ut persona non grata.  Florida State University Comparative Literature Symposium (Tallahassee)

Role or Identity:  The Problematic Baroque Ego.  North East Modern Language Association (Boston)

Postmodern Mannerism.  Diacritics Symposium, Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)

The Novel as Mirror of Civilization.  Seventh Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Ottawa)

1974

The Myth of Egypt in German Baroque Literature:  The Case of Lohenstein.  Comparative Literature 4:  The Renaissance, Modern Language Association (New York)

Recent Lohenstein Research.  Seminar 26:  New Perspectives on Seventeenth-Century German Drama, Modern Language Association (New York)

Prometheus Lohensteinianus:  The Function of Myth in the Arminius.  Seminar 68:  Seventeenth-Century German Novel, Modern Language Association (New York)

1975

Translation as a Humanist Endeavor.  National Workshop, American Translators Association, Stanford University

Eichendorff and Rilke.  Program in Structured Liberal Education, Stanford University

Lohenstein's Arminius.  Modern Languages, University of Nevada (Las Vegas)

Picaresque Literature.  Biography and Confession, Third Annual Conference in Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)

Heinrich von Kleist's and C.F. Meyer's Treatment of History: German Romantic Realism in the European Context.  German 4, Modern Language Association (San Francisco)

1976

Picaresque Literature as a Reflection of New Consciousness. Committee for the Arts, University of California (Berkeley)

Picaresque Literature as a Reflection of New Consciousness. University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)

Disembodied Voice, Disinherited Mind:  Developments in Pre­Romantic and Romantic Fiction.  Eighth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Budapest)

Lohenstein als Marinist.  II.  Kongress des Internationalen Arbeitskreises für Barockliteratur (Wolfenbüttel, Germany)

1977

Folly, Irony, and Catastrophe.  Eastern Conference, American Comparative Literature Association (New York)

1978

Comparative Literature:  Elitist Dilemmas.  Sixth Annual Conference on Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)

Garden and Labyrinth:  The Idea of Development in Epic and Novel from the Baroque to Early Enlightenment.  Symposium, The Baroque:  Patterns and Concepts, University of Chicago

1979

Wieland's Agathon:  The Shift from Baroque to Romantic Concepts of Mythology and Universal History in Fiction.  Modern Language  Association Special Section on 18th and 19th-Century German Literature, and Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of California (Davis)

Romantic Irony and Modern Anti-Theatre.  Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

Baroque Drama.  University of Manchester (England)

The Comparative Study of Romantic Drama.  University of Bristol (England)

Baroque Drama.  University of Reading (England)

Kleist's Theory of Affective Expression:  Acting-Out in Language.  International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Amsterdam)

The Idea of Development and Universal History in the Baroque Novel.  Ninth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Innsbruck)

Der Sieg des absolutistischen Hofes:  Politische Fragwürdigkeiten in Lohensteins Epicharis.  Joint Congress of the Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für Renaissance-Forschung and Internationaler Kreis für Barockliteratur (Wolfenbüttel, Germany--in absentia)

1980

Wieland's Agathon as a Developmental Novel at the Romantic Threshold.  University of Maryland (College Park)

The Renaissance Thematics of Folly.  University of California (Santa Barbara)

War, Crime, and Art:  Two Views of Rogue's Employment in Baroque Europe.  Renaissance Conference of Northern California, Stanford University

Deutsche Literatur im Rahmen der angloamerikanischen Komparatistik.  VI.  Kongress des Internationalen Deutschlehrererbandes (Nürnberg)

Wielands Agathon als Bildungsroman zwischen Barock und Romantik. VI.  Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Basel)

Illustrations of Poetic Anthropologies in the Renaissance and the Baroque.  British Comparative Literature Association, Canterbury University

1981

Romantic Irony and Anti-Theater.  Symposium on English and German Romanticism, University of Houston

The Programs in Comparative Literature and Humanties at Stanford.  The Colloquium of the International Comparative Literature Association and the Jugoslav Comparative Literature Association (Ohrid, Macedonia)

The Triumph of Despotism:  Lohenstein's Questioning Answer on Politics in Epicaris.  Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Stanford University

The Role-Playing Rogue in War, Crime, and Art:  Estebanillo, Francion, and Simplex as Protagonists.  Section on Problems of Satire and Sincerity in Germany's Literature of the Late Renaissance, Modern Language Association (New York)

1982

A Twentieth-Century Epiphany:  Aschenbach's Rediscovery of Dionysos in Death in Venice.  Third Comparative Literature Symposium:  Reflections of the Classics in 19th and 20th Century Literature, Oberlin College

A Twentieth-Century Epiphany....  St. John Fisher College and University of Rochester

The Progress of Myth and the Myth of Progress:  Transition and Change since the Renaissance.  Forum on Transitions, Division of Language and Literature, University of Georgia (Athens)

The Progress of Myth....  University of South Carolina (Columbia)

The Progress of Myth....  Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)

The Progress of Myth....  Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

The Progress of Myth....  State University of New York (Binghamton)

The Progress of Myth....  LU.E.R. de Littérature Générale et Comparée and l'U.E.R. des Pay Anglophones, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris)

Fortschritt im Mythos und Mythos vom Fortschritt:  Grundmodell von Wechsel und Űbergang in der Literatur.  Abteilung fűr Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Institut fűr deutsche Philologie, University of Munich

Fortschritt im Mythos und Mythos vom Fortschritt:  Die Auffassung von Wechsel und Übergang in der Literatur von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart.  Inaugural address as Corresponding Member of the Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft

Problematics of an Empiricist Search for "Mentalities"-­Illustrated in Reference to Romantic Literatue.  Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (New York)

Seven lectures on the Novel (Renaissance to Romanticism; Realism, Impressionism, Decadence, Sympolism; Flaubert, Huysmans, Thomas Mann, Joyce).  Department of Comparative Literature, New York University

Erring and Wayfaring in Baroque Fiction.  Indiana University (Bloomington)

Erring and Wayfaring in Baroque Fiction.  Purdue University

The Progress of Myth and the Myth of Progress.  University of Illinois (Chicago)

Romantic Irony and Anti-Theater.  State University of New York (Binghamton)

Romantic Irony and Anti-Theater.  Bryn Mawr College

Theotechnical Hermetics in Poetic Anthropologizing of the Renaissance and Baroque.  Comparative Literature Section, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of Oregon (Eugene)

The German Baroque Theater of the World.  European Baroque Drama of the Seventeenth Century, Modern Language Association (Los Angeles)

Classic Vision in the Romantic Age:  Goethe's Reconstitution of the Tragic in Faust II.  Classical Studies and Modern Literature, Modern Language Association (Los Angeles)

1983

Romantic Drama and Modern Drama.  Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)

Savage Places:  Shared Otherness in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Francisco State University

The Ways of Hermes in the Works of Thomas Mann.  Eighth Triennial Congress, American Comparative Literature Association, University of California (Santa Barbara)

Conrad's Heart of Darkness.  Faculty Workshop on Literature. Oberlin College

Aesthetic Participation and Social Revelance:  Reading Literature with Undergraduates.  Faculty Workshop on Literature. Oberlin College (September)

Savage Places Revisited:  Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now.  Institut für Englische und Amerikanische Philologie, Phillips-Universität (Marburg, October)

Bemerkungen über die Aktivität der AILC/ICLA.  Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, October)

The Romanticism Projects.  Coordinating Committee for Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. University of Vienna (October)

The Discourse of Defeat in Nineteenth-Century Narrative.  The Discourse of Romantic Narrative, Modern Language Association (New York)

1984

Savage Places Revisited:  Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. Keynote address, Ninth Annual Conference on Film and Literature. Florida State University (Tallahassee, February)

Renaissance Fiction Scrutinizes Itself:  From More's Utopia to Cervantes' Don Quixote.  Comparative Literature Colloquium on Renaissance Literature.  University of Oregon (Eugene, February)

A Grand Climax of Renaissance Forms:  Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus.  Comparative Literature Colloquium on Renaissance Literature.  University of Oregon

The Emergence of Singular Being in a Pluralistic World:  Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.  Comparative Literature Symposium on Renaissance Literature.  University of Oregon

Planning the Volume on Romantic Fiction.  Third International Symposium on Romanticism.  University of Alberta (Edmonton,  October)

Literature as a Approach to the Study of War--Documentary Evidence and Aesthetic Experience.  Literature and War.  Fourth Symposium on Comparative Literature and International Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies (November)

1985

The Discourse of Detection and Interpretation in Nineteenth­Century Fiction.  Department of Literature and Humanities Division, University of California (San Diego, January)

Metamorphoses of the Female Delinquent in Fiction.  University of Pennsylvania (February)

Savage Places Revisited:  Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now University of Hawaii (Manoa, May)

Lectures on the Evolution of the European Novel:  Varieties of Narrative in the Renaissance; Epochal Critique and Self-Scrutiny in Renaissance Fiction; Urbanity, Individualism, and Roguery; Cervantes' Books about Books; The Baroque Climax of Renaissance Forms; Singular Being in a Pluralistic World--The Case of Robinson Crusoe; Metamorphoses of the Female Delinquent in Fiction Since the Renaissance:  Artistic Embodiment of Changing Social Roles (Part I, to 1750; Part II, from 1750 to Modernism). Comparative Literature Center, Peking University (June)

The Humoristic Tradition in the Western Novel.  Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. (Beijing, June)

Die deutsche Frühromantik.  German Department, Peking University (June)

Renaissance Fiction Scrutinizes Itself.  Nanking University (June)

Singular Being in a Pluralistic World--The Case of Robinson Crusoe.  Nanking University (June)

Recent Trends in Comparative Studies in the West.  Research Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanking University (June)

Prospects of Comparative Literature:  Remarks to the Congress of the Association of Teachers of Foreign Literature of China. Nanjing (June)

The Myth of Prometheus in the Romantic Age.  Department of Western Languages, Fudan University (Shanghai, June)

Individual Being in a Pluralistic World--The Case of Robinson Crusoe.  Japan Women's University (Tokyo, July)

Romantic Irony and Anti-Theater.  Taiwan National University (Taipei, July)

The Discourse of Detection in the Nineteenth Century.  Division III:  Narratology, Eleventh Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association.  Sorbonne (Paris, August)

Mythic Representation in Acopalypse Now.  Literature and Values, ICLA Colloquium, Sussex University (Brighton, August)

Thomas Mann in komparatistischer Sicht:  Die angloamerikanische Auffassung seiner weltliterarischen Geltung.  Forum 16: Deutsche Literatur in der Weltliteratur,  VII. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Göttingen, August; read in absentia)

The Romantic Discourse of Detection.  Comparative Literature Program, Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C., October)

The Romantic Discourse of Detection.  Humanities Center and Comparative Literature Program, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, November)

The Romantic Discourse of Detection.  Comparative Literature, Duke University (Durham, NC, November)

E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Romantic Discourse of Detection. Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, November)

The Ways of Hermes in the Works of Thomas Mann.  Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, November)

1986

Detection and Interpretation in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Comparative Literature, University of Maryland (February)

Romantic Devils.  Fourth International Symposium on Romanticism, Comparative Literature Research Institute, University of Alberta (Edmonton, March)

American Internationalism in the Year 2000.  Keynote Address, Seminar West, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (Monterey, June)

Cathedral Windows:  The Romantic Prelude to the Modernist Epiphany.  Comparative Literature Program, Department of English, and Department of Modern Languages, Purdue University (November)

The Proeeminal Trope and the Discovery of American Literature. International Symposium on "Die Entdeckung der National­literaturen in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung/ Le Fait national dans l'historiographie litteraire,"  Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung (Munich, December)

1987

Cathedral Window Light:  The Romantic Prelude to the Modernist

Epiphany.  Comparative Literature Program, Vanderbilt University (February)

Respondent, Session on "Mannerism," Renaissance Society of America, Arizona State niversity, Tempe (March)

The Romantic Prelude to the Modernist Epiphany.  Eberhard L.

Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture, under auspices of the Departments of Comparative Literature and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University (March)

Passion, Piety, and Politics:  Lohenstein's Ibrahim Sultan and Tristan l'Hermite's Osman.  International Conference on Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire 1555-1730, Yale University (March)

Prometheus in the Romantic Age.  Departments of German, French, and English, Amherst College (March)

Feminine Delinquents in Renaissance and Baroque Literature. Department of Germanic, Oriental, and Slavic Languages, University of California (Santa Barbara, April)

The Female Delinquent in Early Modern Literature, Tokyo Institute of Technology (June)

Promises and Problems of the 1980s; Or, an American Onlooker Takes Notice of East Asian Studies.  International Comparative Literature Symposium, Tokyo University (June)

Possibilities of a New Cosmopolitan Culture Seen from San Francisco.  Summit Colloquium on Comparative Studies of Cultures:  "Universality and Particularity of the Traditional Values of Kyoto," Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto, June)

Dilemmas in the Teaching of Comparative Literature.  Fourty-ninth Annual Conference of the Japanese Comparative Literature Association, Doshisha Women's College

1988

Cathedral Window Light.  University of East Anglia (Norwich, May)

Sylvia Plath.  University of East Anglia (May)

Inter- and Intratextual Switching.  International Conference "Beyond Translation," Graduate School of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick (Coventry, July)

Cathedral Window Light:  Sacral Spaces of Epiphany in Romantic Literature.  Twelfth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association  (Munich, August)

1989

The Literature of Detection, Post-Romantic to Post-Modern. Departments of English and Modern Languages, University of Miami (February)

Octavio Paz' Reaffirmation of Context:  the Example of the Collaborative Multilingual Renga.  In division "Latin American: Post-Modern and Post-Wake:  Remake It New," Congress of the

American Comparative Literature Association, Brandeis University, (March)

Translation, Quotation, Exemplarity, and Intertextuality:  Case Histories of Postmodern Poetry and Prose.  Symposium International "Les études littéraires:  (entre) science et herméneutique," Primeiro Congresso da Associaço Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (Lisbon, April, summarized in absentia)

From Duplicitous Delinquent to Superlative Simpleton: Simplicissimus and the German Baroque.  Symposium "The Picaresque Mode," Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland (College Park, April)

Kafka:  The Existential Modernist.  Program in Structured Liberal Education Stanford University (May)

The Debate over Cultural as against Multicultural Literacy in the U.S. and at Stanford.  Comparative Literature Institute, University of Utrecht (June)

Here Comes Everybody/Nobody:  Self as Overly Edited Palimpsest.  Section III:  Discourse, "Literary Representations of the Self," Fifth Congress of the British Comparative Literature Association, University of Leicester (July)

In Deconstruction's Haunted House:  Ghosts of Romanticism Past. Changing Romanticism:  Two Hundred Years of Popular and Scholarly Images (Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century), Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C., December)

1990

Recent Trends in Comparative Literature.  Comparative Indian Literature Association, University of Delhi (February)

Cinematic Narration in the Modernist Novel (Europe and America). International Seminar on Narrative, Festival of Letters 1990, Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) (New Delhi, February)

The Metaphor of the Window in Romantic, Symbolist, and Modern Art and Literature.  Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, February)

The "Impossibility" of Comparative Literature, or Coping with Cultural Diversity.  Keynote Address, International Conference on "Comparative Literature and National Literatures." Punjabi University (Patiala, March)

1991

Cinematic Narration in the Modernist Novel.  Congress of the American Comparative Literature Association (San Diego, March)

Keynote lecture in program  Romantic Drama:  History and Theory:  a European Perspective.  Texas A & M University (College Station, March)

Rhinoceros, Unicorn, or Chimera?--A Polysystemic View of Possible Kinds of Comparative Literature in the New Century.  Division II, "Toward the 21st Century," of "Japan's Place in World Culture," Fifth International Symposium of the Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai University of Foreign Studies (Osaka, August)

Structures of Self and Narrative in European Literature.  Division IV, "Self and Narrative," Thirteenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Tokyo, August)

Mysterious and Terrifying Others since Late Romanticism.  Division VI, "Visions of the Other," Thirteenth Congress of ICLA.

The Living Palimpsest:  Spirit of Place and Mythic Universality in Selected Works of Modern Irish Literature.  Invitational Yamagata Symposium of the Japanese Comparative Literature Association on "Traditional Cultures and their Universality (Basho, Mokichi, Miyazawa Kenji)" (Yamagata, September).

The Difficulty of Correlating Psychohistorical Analysis with a General History of Literature.  "Problemes méthodologiques relatifs  une histoire comparée des littératures":  Congress of the Société Belge de Littérature Générale et Comparée (Brussels, June)

Translucent Traces: Experiencing Interiority in Modern Literature.  Universidade de Lisboa (July)

Structures of Self and Narrative in European Narrative. Universidade Nova de Lisboa (July)

Prime Coordinates in Modernist Cultural Mappings.  "Across Europe":  Sixth International Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association (Warwick, July)

Alienation on the Edge:  Rediscovery of Self and Other in the Global Context Created by the Renaissance.  III Congresso da Associaço Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (Niterói-Rio de Janeiro, August)

Renewal of Discourse and Identity in the Foundational Romance: The Example of John Barth and Alejo Carpentier.  Colóquio Internacional:  "500 Anos de América," Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil, August)

1993

Things Deconstructible Merely.  Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universitat Salzburg (June)

American Multiculturalism and Literary Studies.  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg (June)

Auf den multikulturellen Irrwegen der amerkianischen Komparatistik:  Mahn- und Kontrastmodell für ein junges Europa. Weltliteratur heute:  Internatonales Kolloquium, Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken, June)

American Multiculturalism and Literary Studies:  Animadversions on a Misleading Model for the 1990s.  Institut für Englische Philologie, Universität München (July)

Proust, Mann, and Joyce:  Reassembling the Intertext "Out of Time." Parodia, Pastiche, Mimetismo:  Convegno internazionale di Letterature comparate, sponsored by the Universit degli Studi di Venezia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (Venice, October)

1994

Domesticating Don Juan.  Annual public keynote lecture of the Humanities Program, University of Tennesseee (Knoxville, February)

German Classical and Romantic Drama.  Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, February)

Domesticating Don Juan:  A Psychohistorical View.  Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, and the Associaço Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (Porto, June)

The American Experience in Melville's Romantic Mythology. Instituto de Estudos Norte-Americanos, and the Associaço Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (Porto, June)

Great River Voyages.  Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, with the patronage of the Comisso Nacional para as Comemoraçes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses (Lisbon, June)

The Graduate Curriculum--What's Right/Wrong with It:  Toward the Americanization of the Graduate Curriculum.  DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Symposium, "Germanistik in the USA: Prospects for Change--Changing Prospects." Vanderbilt University (October)

The Relevance of Irrelevance:  Games and Puzzles in the Humoristic Tradition since the Renaissance.  Plenary address, Tenth Congress of the Sociedad Espaola de Literatura General y Comparada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (October)

Reconnecting with Literary Culture.  Plenary Forum on "Critical Theory and the Literary Text:  Symbiotic Compatibility or Mutual Exclusivity."  Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, San Francisco State University (November)

1995

Psychological Musings on Myth in Modernist Narrative. Keynote talk for symposium sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah, March)

Anthropological Time Warps:  Comparing Involutions of the Relation between Literary History and History of Science.   Plenary Session II:  Issues in the History of Science and Literature, American Comparative Literature Association Congress: "Literature and Science:  Historical and Global Perspectives,"  University of Georgia (Athens, March)

Competing for Jobs in Foreign Languages Departments. Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature:  Presentation to Job Market Workshop for Graduate Students.  ACLA Congress, University of Georgia (March)

The City of Wo/man:  Labyrinth, Wilderness, Garden.  Plenary address, Seventh International Congress of the British Comparative Literature Association, University of Edinburgh (July)

The Relevance of Irrelevance:  Games and Puzzles in the Humoristic Tradition since the Renaissance.  Plenary address, International Conference on Comparative Literary Studies, University of South Africa (Pretoria, August)

The Haunted Narrator before the Gate:  Joyce, Kafka, Borges. Plenary address at conference "Christendom en Literatuur by die Eeuwending/Christianity and Literature at the Turn of the Century," Potchefstroomse Universiteit/Potchechstroom University (August)

Faculty Seminar on International Comparative Literature, English Department, University of Cape Town (August)

Visionary Peaks in the European Tradition.  Plenary address at the international symposium "'Ideal Places' in History--East and West."  International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto, October)

The Internationalization of Comparative Literature in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.  "International Colloquium on Cultural Dialogue and Cultural Misunderstanding."  Cultural Institute of Macau (October;  read in absentia)

European Cultural Identity:  Shifting American Perspectives. Plenary address at international congress "Kulturelle Identität in Europa: Regionale, Nationale und europäische Perspektiven/ European Cultural Identity:  Regional, National and International Perspectives," Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther­ Universität (Halle/Wittenberg, November) 1996

The Language of Father, Mother, and Child in the Fiction of James Joyce.  XXth Congress of FILM.  Universität Regensburg (August; read in absentia)

"Where" Is Fin-de-Sicle Nature?  Plenary address at international colloquium "Literature's Nature:  Nature et Littérature," Humanities Research Center and Institute of Literature, Odense University (August)

Cultural Modernization.  Jubilee convocation, Odense University (August)

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