Contributors
- Contributors
Charles Altieri teaches in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Painterly Abstraction in Twentieth Century American Poetry and Subjective Agency, and will soon publish Postmodernism Now (Penn State Press) and several essays toward a book on the Emotions.
Stephen Bann is Professor of Modern Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Modern Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has recently published Paul Delaroche: History Painted (1977), and is working on the theory and practice of reproduction in nineteenth-century France.
Herbert Blau is Distinguished Professor of English and Modern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Among his books are The Audience (1990) and To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance (1992). He has just finished a book on fashion, entitled Nothing In Itself: Complexions of Fashion, and is working now on The Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett.
Leslie Brisman is Professor of English at Yale University. His work on biblical revisionism includes The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis (1990) and a current project on the concept of the chosen people.
Norman N. Holland is Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. Specializing in reader-response and psychoanalytic criticism, he is the author of twelve books, most recently of Death in a Delphi Seminar (1995). He moderates the online discussion group PSYART, and edits the onlinejournal PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychology of the Arts.
Jean-Pierre Mileur is Professor of English and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Vision and Revision: Coleridge’s Art of Immanence (1982), Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity (1985), The Critical Romance (1990), and (with Bernd Magnus and Stanley Stewart) Nietzsche’s Case: Philosophy As/And Literature (1993).
Miguel Tamen teaches in, and currently chairs, the Program in Literary Theory, at the University of Lisbon. He is the author of Hermene\utica e mal-estar (1987), Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies (1993), and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation (forthcoming from Stanford University Press). He is writing a book on treating things, namely persons, like persons.
Willie Van Peer is Professor of Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Munich. He is the author of Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding (1986) and editor of The Taming of the Text (1991). He is currently working on Standards of Interpretation and, with Seymour Chatman, is editor of New Perspectives on Narrative Perspectives (forthcoming in 1998).
