Spring 1988, Vol. 37, No. 3

Articles
Self-Present Meaning and the One-Many Paradox: A Kripkean Critique of Jacques Derrida
MICHAEL P. SPIKES     13

"The Merciful Construction of Good Women": Katherine of Aragon and Pity in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII
A.
ROBIN BOWERS     29

Book Reviews
Elva McAllaster, Strettam
LIONEL BASNEY     53

Wendell Berry, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
LIONEL BASNEY     54

Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds., "Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse": The Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
E. BEATRICE BATSON     55

Nancy M. Tischler, A Voice of Her Own: Women, Literature, and Transformation
DOROTHY H. BROWN     58

Margaret R. Ellsberg, Created to Praise: The Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins
JEROME BUMP     59

John F. Desmond, Risen Sons: Flannery O'Connor's Vision of History
ROBERT DRAKE     60

Larry Brunner, Tragic Victory: The Doctrine of Subjective Salvation in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats
ARRA M. GARAB     62

Virginia Mollenkott, Godding: Human Responsibility and the Bible
DABNEY HART     63

Nina Auerbach, Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time
JOHN C. HAWLEY, S.J.     65

Eric O. Springsted, Simone Weil and the Suffering of Love
DEWEY WEISS KRAMER     66

Phyllis Pellman Good, ed., Three Mennonite Poets: Jean Janzen, Yorifumi Yaguchi, David Waltner-Toews
ELVA MCALLASTER     68

Robert E. Morse, Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art: Geritol for the Classics
R.J. REILLY     69

Teresa Toulouse, The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief
JAMES L. SAUER     70

John Vignaux Smyth, A Question of Eros: Irony in Sterne, Kierkegard, & Barthes
CLAUDIA KOVACH SMORADA     71

David Jasper, ed., Literature & Theology, Vol. 1, No. 1 (march 1987)
JOHN H. TIMMERMAN     73

Robert H. Ray, ed., Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's King Lear
CHARLES TRAINOR     74

Stephen Prickett, Words and "The Word," Language, Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation
WILLIAM J. VANDE KOPPLE     75

Stephen L. Tanner, Paul Elmer More: Literary Criticism and the History of Ideas
CLARENCE WALHOUT     77

Walker Percy, The Thanatos Syndrome
JOHN W. WHITEHEAD     78

Poetry
Peniel
E.W. ZRUDLO     12

In Search of Gryphons
MARTHA M. VERTREACE     52

god is a blunt and wonderful
William Fanning     92