Autumn 1996, Vol. 46, No. 1

Articles
“Witnesse thy wife (O Pilate) speakes for all”: Aemilia Lanyer’s Strategic Self-Positioning
BRANDA J. POWELL     5

Flannery O’Connor and the Idolatrous Mind
JOHN F. DESMOND     25

The City in Which I Love You: Li-Young Lee’s Excellent Song
WALTER A. HESFORD     37

Review Essay
Poetics and Culture: Unity, Difference, and the Case of Northrop Frye
JONATHAN HART     61

Book Reviews
Cleanth Brooks, Community, Religion, and Literature
DONALD G. MARSHALL     81

Richard J. Utz, ed., Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts
PAMELA LLOYD LIPPERT     82

John R. Reed, Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness
TODD PICKETT     85

David Anthony Downes, Hopkin’s Achieved Self
MICHAEL E. ALLSOPP     88

Bernard Radiloff, Cosmopolis and Truth: Melville’s Critique of Modernity
ALLISON CHESTNUT     90

Vincent Sherry, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism
JOE HALL     92

Charles A. Huttar and Peter J. Schakel, eds., The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams
ADAM SCHWARTZ     94

David R. Mayer, Dropping Sun, Coy Moon: Essays on Flannery O’Connor
CATHERINE O. ANTHONY     96

Mark Ledbetter, Victims and the Postmodern Narrative, or Doing Violence to the Body: An Ethic of Reading and Writing
BRIAN D. INGRAFFIA     99

Eugenio Matibag, Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative
MARY L. DANIEL     101

Poetry
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
MARJORIE MADDOX     24

On Earth As It Is
IDA FASEL     36

Rain, Early Morning, Bardsey Island
KELLY CHERRY     80