INTRODUCTION: Primacy, Criticism, and
the Text
PART ONE: The Theoretical Hyphen
An American View of the Structuralist-Poststructuralist Controversy
E.F. Kaelin
Address as Focus: Plato, Nietzsche, and Postmodernism
William J. Kennedy
Theoretical Dreamwish and Textual Actuality: The Polyglot Renga by Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson
Gerald Gillespie
PART TWO: Lo, the Text Tells Its Tale
The Misshapen Beast: The Furioso's Serpentine Narrative
Dennis Looney
Begging an Answer: Kleist's The Beggarwoman of Locarno
Lilian R. Furst
Narrative, Genre, and Mode: Pirandello's "La Patente"
Mary Ann Frese Witt
PART THREE: Appearing Texts
Sarte's La Nausee and the Aesthetics of Pure Perception
W. Wolfgang Holdheim
Painting the Seamarks of Modernity: Toward a Poesis of Integration in Saint-John Perse
Mark W. Andrews
PART FOUR: Reflected Texts Beyond Words
The Endurance of Value: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote in Defense of the Canon
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Texts Within Texts: The Power of Letters in Edith Wharton's Fiction
Elsa Nettels
The Reflected Text: Kafka's Modern Inferno
Peter Salm
PART FIVE: A Cultural-Historical Hyphen
Petrarchan Grammatology and the Birth of Modern Texts
Aldo Scaglione
Paradiso XXIII: To Read the Human Condition
Maristella De Panizza Lorch
Vision and Visibilia
Allen Mandelbaum
Naming the Rose: Petrarch's Figure In and For the Text and Texts
Raymond Adolph Prier