Ⅰ TRANSFORMING THE CANON 1
On the Story-Discourse Distinction in American Literary Theory&Shen Dan(Peking University) 3
"Free to Say"Regionalism:Transforming the Canon of 19th Century American Fiction&Judith Fetterley(State University of New York at Albany) 19
Transforming the Canon:American Women Playwrights&Judith E.Barlow(State University of New York at Albany) 29
Teaching Students at Risk&Jeffrey Berman(State University of New York at Albany) 42
The Vertigo of Details,Extreme Realism,and Materialism Now&Teresa L.Ebert(State University of New York at Albany) 65
American Young Adult Literature:Retrospect and Prospect&Zhang Ying,Yang Jie(Northeast Normal University) 81
Ⅱ STUDIES oF AMERICAN FICTIoN 97
Is Moby-Dick the Great American Novel?&Elizabeth Schultz(University of Kansas) 97
The Scarlet Letter in The Woman Warrior.Breaking Silence in Puritan America&Jennie Wang(University of California at Berkeley) 117
Some Social Critical Elements in The Last of the Mohicans&Gu Qinan(Nankai University) 134
Henry James and the Tao—Thinking for New Millennium and New Millennium Thinking&Chen Shudong(Johnson County Community College) 143
Narrative Voice and the Representation of the New Woman in The Bostonians&Wang Liya(Bejing Normal University) 161
The Stand Faulkner Takes&Liu Jianhua(Peking University) 180
The Narrative Strategy of Their Eyes Were Watching God&Cheng Xilin(Sichuan University) 193
Hero or Devil:A Contrapuntal Reading of the Images of Chinese in the Works of Jack London&Wu E-chou(Providence University) 203
Masculinity in Two of Updike's Novles&Jin Hengshan(Peking University) 215
Hemingway:"A Man With Women"&Dai Guiyu(Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) 229
Neologism out of Binary Opposites in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone&Lu Wei(Beijing Language and Culture University) 246
Ⅲ STUDIES oF AMERICAN DRAMA 261
Writing Back to the Empire:From M.Butterfly to Madame Butterfly&Liu Cecilia H.C.(Fu Jen University) 261
West vs.West:Is the Business Ethic of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross Going Global?&Alain Piette(Université de Mons-Hainaut) 276
From Page to Stage:Teaching Drama through Performance&Sun Jianqiu(University of International Business＆Economics) 286
Ⅳ STUDIES oF AMERICAN POETRY 299
A Dialogue between Chinese and American Poets&Zhang Ziqing(Nanjing University) 299
Computers and Twentieth Century Poetry&Christopher Funkhouser(New Jersey Institute of Technology) 320
"A Man in Himself is a City"—W.C.Williams's Lyric Epic Paterson&Huang Zongying(Peking University) 333
Robert Frost: 354
Masked Performance of Correspondence and Alienation&Meng Liang(North China Electric Power University) 354
Ⅴ STUDIES OF AMERICAN CULTURE 361
From American Media Imperialism to The New World Information and Communications Order&Sun Youzhong(Beijing Foreign Studies University) 361
The Conceived Majority-Minority Dichotomy and the Reality of Constitutional Adjudication in America&Zhang Shiyun(Peking University) 373
Hollywood England-the Americanization of British Cinema&Shi Tongyun(Beijing Foreign Studies University) 391
A Literary Presentation of the History of Contemporary China:Silver City by Li Rui&Feng Yuan(Hainan University) 411
"Interchangeable Attractions":Henry Adams,World's Fairs,and the Architecture of Empire&Joseph C.Murphy(Fu Jen Catholic University) 420
Ideology and Translation of American Literature in China:1864-1979&Wang Yougui(Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) 432
Escapism of Rip and Ah Q in Comparison&Li Du(Wuhan University) 446