March and June 1993, Volume 20, Number 1 and 2

Articles

• "Comparative Poetics, Postmodernism, and the Canon: An Introduction

  JONATHAN HART

  1-8

• Problems with Comparative Poetics

  ANTONY TATLOW

  9-28

• Myths About the Chinese Language

  Q.S. TONG

  29-47

• Constructing Postmodernism: The Chinese Case and Its Different Versions

  NING WANG

  49-61

• Twilight of the Idols: Poststructuralism and the Renaissance in English Studies in the 1990s

  ELISABETH M. RICHMOND-GARZA

  63-78

• Strategies of Negotiation in Renaissance Literature and Criticism

  KATY EMCK

  79-88

• Paradox of Chinese Boxes: Textual Heterarchy in Postermodern Fiction

  BENZI ZHANG

  89-103

• No hay centro: Postmodernism and Comparative New World Criticism

  GEORGE LANG

  105-124

• The Problem of Social Semiotics

  ANTHONY WALL

  125-137

• Frye/About Frye

  JONATHAN HART

  139-171

• Editor's Note: Canons and Canonization: From Theory to Practice

  MILAN V. DIMIĆ

  173-174

• Why Study Canonization?

  MILAN V. DIMIĆ

  175-186

• Historical Canons

  ALVIN KERNAN

  187-192

• The Aesthetic Factor in Canon Revision: The Case of American Literature

  DAVID S. REYNOLDS

  193-200

• Canon Harassment

  ANNA BALAKIAN

  201-207

• Some Roles of American Studies Overseas Today

  HOWARD WOLF

  209-217

• Reviews

  VARIOUS VARIOUS

  219-280

• In Memoriam Tibor Klaniczay

  EVA KUSHNER

  283-284