Contributors
- Contributors
Michael André Bernstein teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic; Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero; Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History, as well as Prima della Rivoluzione, a volume of verse. He is currently completing a novel entitled Progressive Lenses.
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently preparing an exhibit Heavens of the Imagination which will open in San Francisco this fall and will travel to Harvard University in 1999. She is also at work on a book dealing with art and nationalism in Chile and Argentina.
Lubomír Dolezel is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His books include Narrative Modes in Czech Literature (1973), Occidental Poetics: Tradition and Progress (1990), Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (1998). The author of numerous articles in mathematical linguistics, stylistics, poetics and semiotics, he is currently exploring the epistemological capacity of the concept of possible worlds.
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is a translator and critic of the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, and has published widely on nineteenth-century Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin), on the history of literary criticism, and on Russian opera and vocal music. Most recently she is the author of The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (1997) and a biography of Modest Musorgsky (forthcoming).
Laurence Lerner recently retired from Vanderbilt University, where he was Edwin Mims professor of English; before that he was professor at the University of Sussex. He has published nine volumes of poetry, three novels, and many critical works, most recently The Frontiers of Literature (1988) and Angels & Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century (1997).
Paisley Livingston teaches in the Philosophy Department of the University of Aarhus. He is the author of Ingmar Bergman and the Rituals of Art, Literary Knowledge, Literature and Rationality, and Models of Desire. He has published various papers in literary theory and in philosophical aesthetics.
Gary Saul Morson, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. His most recent book, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time, won a René Wellek award from the American Comparative Literature Association.
Thomas Pavel teaches French literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Fictional Worlds (1986), L’ Art de l’éloignement (1996), and De Barthes à Balzac (with Claude Bremond, forthcoming). He is currently writing a history of the novel.
Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar and 1999 Fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Her book, Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory won the 1991 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars. She has published widely on narrative theory, genre theory, and computers and literature. Her present project is a book-length study on immersion and interactivity in literature and virtual reality.
Garrett Stewart is James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Dickens and the Trials of Imagination, Death Sentences, Reading Voices, and most recently Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1996). The present essay is drawn from his book-in-progress called Photosynthesis: Modernism’s Filmic Register.
