Contemporary Literature, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1998

Includes "'Gentle Reader, I fain would spare you this, but my pen hath its will like the Ancient Mariner': Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch" by Ron Loewinsohn, pp. 560-585.

Published in Madison, Wisconsin by The University of Wisconsin Press in Winter of 1998.

This copy acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19980101CLIT.39.4

Contents:

• Charlie Reilly: "An Interview with Joseph Heller" (interview)
• Timothy G. Gray: "Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of aan Urban Pastoral" (essay)
• Ron Loewinsohn: "'Gentle Reader, I fain would spare you this, but my pen hath its will like the Ancient Mariner': Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch" (essay)
• Grant Stirling: "Mourning and Metafiction: Carole Maso's The Art Lover" (essay)
• Emma Parker: "'Apple Pie' Ideology and the Politics of Appetite in the Novels of Toni Morrison" (essay)
• Kathleen Crown: "Poetry, Feminism, and the Public Sphere" (reviews)
• Christopher Beach: "Making Poetry Matter" (reviews)
• Rafael Pérez-Torres: "Chicano Studies at the Millennium" (reviews)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Thomas Schaub
• Associate Editors: Robert S. Baker, Richard Begam, Lynn Keller, Jacques Lezra
• Managing Editor: Mary Mekemson
• Program Assistant: Eileen R. Ewing
• Editorial Assistants: May Caroline Chan, Jennifer DiDomenico