Contributors
- Contributors
James Campbell is an assistant professor in the English Department of the University of Central Florida. He is currently completing a book on war and poetry in the twentieth century.
David Caplan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia. His work has recently appeared in Postmodern Culture and New England Review, and he is completing a dissertation entitled “Questions of Possibility: Poetic Form in Contemporary Poetry.”
Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent books are Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1995) and The Practice of Reading (1998).
Kurt Fosso is Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between mourning and community in Wordsworth’s early poetry.
Sandra M. Gilbert is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her most recent publications include Wrongful Death: A Memoir (1995) and Ghost Volcano: Poems (1995), as well as The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: the Traditions in English, 2nd edition (co-edited with Susan Gubar, 1996). The present essay is drawn from her book-in-progress entitled The Fate of the Elegy: History, Memory, and the Mythology of Modern Death.
Thomas M. Greene is Frederick Clifford Ford Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
John Koethe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His most recent book of poems is Falling Water, and he is also the author of The Continuity of Wittgenstein’s Thought. A new book of poems, The Constructor, will appear this spring.
Jerome McGann teaches at the University of Virginia. The first installment of his hypermedia research archive of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is forthcoming in 1999 (University of Michigan Press) and will be followed shortly thereafter by the study Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost (Yale University Press).
Brian McHale is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987) and Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and is co-editor of Poetics Today. He is completing a book on postmodernist poems, from which the present essay is drawn.
Thomas A. Prendergast is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Wooster. He is the co-editor of Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400–1602 (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book-length project entitled Chaucer’s Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus.
Katherin H. Rosenfield is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has published books on French medieval literature, on Brazilian literature, on German Romanticism, and on T. S. Eliot. She is currently writing a book on “Holderlin’s Sophocles.”
Lisa Samuels teaches at the University of Louisville. Her edition of Laura Riding’s Anarchism is not Enough is forthcoming in 1999 (University of California Press) and her book of poems, The Seven Voices, was recently published by O Books.
E. Warwick Slinn is Associate Professor of English at Massey University in New Zealand. He is the author of Browning and the Fictions of Identity (1982) and the Discourse of Self in Victorian Poetry (1991). He is working on a study of Victorian poetry in terms of constitutive enactment and cultural criticism.
Alain Suied has published numerous books of poetry, most recently Le Premier Regard, Le Natal and Le Pays Perdu. His 1989 volume, La Lumiere de L’Origine, won the Verlaine Prize. He has published critical works on Paul Celan and Andre Frenaud and translated the works of Blake, Keats, Dylan Thomas, and Pound. Steve Light (translator) is an author of philosophical and poetic works, most recently Middle Passages/Last Passages (poems) and Somewhere Between Philosophy and Music (lyrico-philosophical essays).
Barry Weller teaches Renaissance and nineteenth-century literature at the University of Utah and edits The Western Humanities Review. He is co-editor (with Jerome McGann) of Byron’s dramas for the Oxford edition of Byron’s Complete Poetical Works and (with Margaret Ferguson) of a modern edition of Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam (1613).
