1981-VOLUME XLVII NUMBER
CONTENTS
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THE STATE OF CRITICISM
Morris Dickstein
Eugene Goodheart
Rosalind Krauss
Clement Greenberg
Donald B. Kuspit
Effects of Critical Theories on
Practical Criticism, Cultural
Journalism, and Reviewing
Art Criticism
Richard Gilman
Criticism of Popular Culture
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Keith Botsford
ARTICLES
Steven Marcus
The State of Criticism
Alfred Kazin
New York from Melville to Mailer
Dennis H. Wrong
The Rise and Fall of
Neoconservatism
Jan Kavan
Czech Letter
FICTION
Jerry Bumpus
The Happy Convent
POEMS
Clayton Eshleman, Stuart Kaufman, Philip Levine, Marge
Piercy, Ira Sadoff, Elizabeth Spires, Terry Stokes,
Arthur Vogelsang
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