Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cohesion, Dissent, and the Aims of Criticism
Joseph Alkana
Part I: Cohesion and Dissent in the History of American Theory
1. Discovering America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Sacvan Bercovitch
2. Jewish Critics and American Literature: The Case of Sacvan Bercovitch
Rael Meyerowitz
3. Sacvan Bercovitch, Stanely Cavell, and the Romance Theory of American Fiction
Emily Miller Burdick
Part II: Establishing Modernist Traditions at Dissent
4. T.S. Eliot's American Dissent/Descent
Donald Childs
5. Work on Truth in America: The Example of William James
Barry Allen
6. The Orient as Pretext for Aesthetic and cultural Revolution in Modern American POetry
Kathleen Flanagan
Part III: Cohesion, Dissent, and Contemporary Cultural Boundaries
7. "Chaos Goes Uncourted": Joan Yau's Dis(-)Orienting Poetics
Priscilla Wald
8. The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas's The Rain God
Jose David Saldivar
9. Norman Mailer and the Radical Text
Kathy Smith
Part IV: Problems of Marginality in America
10. Problematizing American Dissent: The Subject of Phillis Weatley
Helen Burke
11. Before the Law, after the Judgment: Schizophrenia in John Barth's The Floating Opera
Theron Britt
12. Bercovitch's Paradox: Critical Dissent, Marginality, and the Example of Melville
Carol Colatrella
Contributors