Introduction 

Jacob Blevins

Tragedy and the Crisis of Authority in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Peter C. Herman

Flirting with Tragedy: Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and the Play of the Text

Earl G. Ingersoll

Role-Playing the “Feminine” in Letters Home 

Wendy Whelan-Stewart

“To Shift to a Higher Structure”: Desire, Disembodiment, and Evolution in the Anime of Otomo, Ishii, and Anno

Gerald Miller

Reviews

Scott L. Baugh, ed. Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular

Tereza M. Szeghi

Tomiko Yoda. Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts
in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity

Anna Zielinska-Elliott