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Contributors DENNIS BARONE is Professor of American Studies and English at Saint Joseph College (Connecticut). He is the author of many articles on early American and contemporary American literature. A fiction writer and poet, his most recent works are The Returns (Sun & Moon Press, 1995) and Waves ofIce, Waves ofRumor (Zasterle Press, 1993). He is co-editor of The Art ofPractice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets (Potes & Poets Press, 1994). STEPHEN BERNSTEIN is an Assistant Professor of English at the University ofMichigan-Flint. He has published essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Samuel Beckett, and gothic fiction. He is currently at work on a book about gothicism and intertextuality, and is co-editing a collection of essays on Don DeLillo. PASCAL BRUCKNER, an essayist and novelist, lives in Paris. His novel Lunes defiel (Evil Angles) was published in translation by Grove Press in 1987, and his book on "third worldism," Le sanglot de l'homme blanc, was published in English as The Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt (The Free Press, 1986). MARC CHENETIER is Professor of American Literature at the Ecole Normale Superieure (FontenayjSaint Cloud) in Paris and author of numerous books and articles on contemporary American fiction. His book on fiction since 1960, Beyond Suspicion, is forthcoming from the University ofPennsylvania Press. WILLIAM DRENTTEL is president of the design firm Drenttel Doyle Partners in NewYork City. He also publishes fine press literary editions and is on the board of the Poetry Society ofAmerica. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN is the author ofa book ofpoems, Restless Messengers (University of Georgia Press, 1992), and two books of criticism, The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Poetry (Bucknell University Press, revised edition, 1993), and The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (SUNY Press, 1992). He is a Professor ofEnglish at Xavier University. ZOO Contributors KAREN PALMUNEN holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and teaches French language, literature, and civilization at Saint Joseph College (Connecticut). Her areas of interest include the teaching of culture and the adult language-learner. DEREK RUBIN teaches American literature at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published articles on Saul Bellow and Philip Roth and is at work on a study of marginality in Bellow's early fiction. ARTHUR SALTZMAN is Professor of English at Missouri Southern State College, where he was named Outstanding Teacher in 1992. His books include The Fiction ofWilliam Gass: The Consolation ofLanguage (Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), Understanding Raymond Carver (University of South Carolina Press, 1988), Designs ofDarkness in Contemporary AmericanFiction (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), and The Novel in the Balance (University ofSouth Carolina Press, 1993). MOTOYUKI SHIBATA teaches at the University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences. He has translated many works of contemporary American fiction into Japanese, including Paul Auster's Ghosts, Steven Millhauser 's In the Penny Arcade, Steve Erickson's Tours ofthe Black Clock, and Stuart Dybek's The Coast ofChicago. MADELEINE SORAPURE teaches in the Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published essays on contemporary fiction in Modern Fiction Studies and Studies in Short Fiction. She is currently working on a study of friendship in contemporary feminist fiction. STEVEN WEISENBURGER is an Associate Professor ofEnglish at the University of Kentucky and author of The Gravity's Rainbow Companion (University of Georgia Press, 1988) and Fables of Subversion: Satire and the American Novel, 1930-1980 (University of Georgia Press, 1994), as well as numerous articles on contemporary American fiction and narrative theory. ERIC WIRTH, a poet and essayist, lives in New York City. His writing has appeared in O.ARS, Aerial, and other literaryjournals. TIM WOODS teaches at the University ofWales, Aberystwyth. He wrote his dissertation on the politics and poetics of Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson , and the "Language" Poets, specifically in relation to the theories of Theodor Adorno and the ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas. ...

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