An examination of Albert Camus' definition of the actor in "The Myth on Sisyphus" helps to illuminate the character and role of The Player in Tom Stoppard's play and, hence, to bring light to an understanding of the philosophy of the play itself. The actor, for Camus, reveals our mortality in the face of the absurdity of our mortality,…

Describes the narrative and analytic methods John Berger uses to show his audience oppositional alternatives in the structuring of their daily experience. (DD)

Examines the literary criticism of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound for an explication of key terms of the modernist poetic movement. (DD)

This critical study of West Indian novelist George Lamming's work finds a preoccupation in his earlier works with British colonizers' betrayal of the West Indian people and its appearance as a father-son relationship. Lamming's latest work creates a less limited West Indian identity in the context of pre-colonial cultural history. (DMM)

A critical analysis of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" and of the doctrine of Absurdism. (DD)

Special issue honoring Luis Rosales, contemporary Spanish poet. (DS)

Part of a panel discussion on the modern Japanese novelist presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies on March 29, 1972, in New York, New York. (DS)

Discusses works of Spanish poets Jorge Guillen, Manuel Mantero, Odon Betanzos Palacios, and Alfredo Gomez - Gil, who are currently residing in the United States. (DS)

Two professors offer positive and negative responses to the need for an accurate representation of reality in literature, offering insights into the ways that reality forces itself on art. (RL)

Analyzes the "deconstructive" literary criticism of J. Hillis Miller and the opposition between it and other schools of criticism. (DD)