The Journal of  the American Literature Society of Japan No.14

CONTENTS

<Foreword>

  1 Takayuki TATSUMI 

      The Humanities Strike Back

<Articles>

  5 Shosuke KINUGAWA
      Taking Yet Mistaking: Puns in “The Purloined Letter”

19 Teppei KURUMA
      “Close, Cool, High”: Hart Crane’s “Southern Cross” and Mobilizing a Distant Closeness

39 Masaomi KOBAYASHI
      Bartlebys Diversified: Miss Lonelyhearts and Office Fiction

57 Mariko AKITA
     “A Jewish Writer” as an Oxymoron: Cynthia Ozick’s Self-Contradiction in Story-Making in       

     “Usurpation   (Other People’s Stories)”

69 Hiroyuki INOUE
      The Hi Lo Palimpsest: Remapping the West(ern) in Bobby Jack Smith, You Dirty Coward!