Seeing and Saying

Contents: In memoriam Karl Klein - Saskia Schabio: Seeing and Saying: Historicising Self-Referentiality - Mary Winkler: "But it is a true thing": Vision and Creation in the Work of Charlotte Brontë - Alan Grob: Saying and Seeing: Arnold's "Forsaken Merman" - Angelica Michelis: The Pleasure of Saying It: Images of Sexuality and Desire in Contemporary Women's Poetry - Saskia Schabio: Screens over Nothingness: Self-Reflection in Lady Mary Wroth's "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" - Hugh Haughton: The Purloined Title: Contemporary Irish Poems on Paintings - Andreas Jäger: "The broken lines": Creative Contradictions in Tony Harrison's Poetry - Horst Meyer: The Forms of Things Unseen: Photography as 'Poetic Reference' in the Poetry of Michael Harper - Detlev Gohrbandt: "Fresh ground though trodden" - Revisiting, Revisioning, Understanding in Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead - M. Gilbert Porter: The Vision in the Voice: American Writers and the Issue of Literary Evaluation - F.H. (Tim) Mares: The Demidenko Affair: Who Writes, and Who Reads? - Karl Kunibert Schäfer: "The Enigma" - John Fowles's Metafiction - Bruno von Lutz: "My true métier". The Informer Turned Writer: Some Observations on a Novel of Seeing and Saying - J.S. Cunningham: Reading Some Lofty Laughters.

The Editors: Detlev Gohrbandt and Bruno von Lutz teach British and American Literature at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. Their special interest is contemporary literature including the New English Literatures.