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THE CONTRIBUTORS Neil Schmitz, Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the author of OfHuck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature, and recent essays on Abraham Lincoln and Unionist discourse. John evelev teaches at Duke University. He is at work on a project on Melville and a series of American writers' engagements with the structure of genre as a troubled reflection of and commentary on American ideologies of identity. Barry maxwell is at work on "Utopian Ruination: American Versions of the Destructive Character," an extended essay. He has published articles on Michael Ondaatje and Walt Whitman, and this spring is teaching Cold War literature and culture at Cornell University . In March he will give a paper, "Travelling through the Fairy Tale: Ernst Bloch's Utopian Compass," in Rimini, Italy. Jonathan levin teaches modern American literature at Columbia University. The present essay is adapted from a book he is currently completing on the esthetics of pragmatism. james naremore is Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Indiana University. His books on film include The Magic World of Orson Welles (Oxford, 1978; rev. ed. SMU, 1989) and Acting in the Cinema (California, 1988). His recently completed book on Vincente Minnelli will be published by Cambridge University Press in the summer of 1993. Joan dayan is the author of Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction . She is currently completing a book called Haiti, History, and the Gods. ...

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