Autumn 1991
Volume 18, Number 1

Table of Contents

  • Jerome Bruner: "The Narrative Construction of Reality"
  • Nina Baym: "Between Enlightenment and Victorian: Toward a Narrative of American Women Writers Writing History"
  • William Flesch: "Quoting Poetry"
  • John Koethe: "Contrary Impulses: The Tension Between Poetry and Theory"

QUESTIONS OF EVIDENCE:

James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian, Editors

  • Carlo Ginzburg: "Checking the Evidence: The Judge and the Historian"
  • Lorraine Daston: "Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Europe"
  • Barbara Herrnstein Smith: "Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account"
  • R.C. Lewontin: "Facts and the Factitious in Natural Sciences"