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Issue 1, Autumn 2005 - Origins and Originality

Contents

Guest Article
The Life and Death of the Avant-garde on the Battlefield of Rhetoric - and
Beyond
Dr Hubert van den Berg, researcher at the Institute for Humanities Research
(ICOG) and Department of Dutch Language and Literature of the University of
Groningen

Articles
Becoming Origin(al): Deterritorialization and Postcolonial Theory from the
Caribbean
William Christopher Brown, Indiana University

Genesis, the Origin, and Darwin's autobiographies
Alexis Harley, University of Sydney

Myths of Origin and Myths of the Future in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
Elizabeth C. Harmer, McMaster University

Finding the Poem - Modern Gaelic Verse and the Contact Zone
Corinna Krause, University of Edinburgh

Angelopoulos' Ulysses Gaze: Where the Old meets the New
Vangelis Makriyannakis, University of Edinburgh

Lord Byron and George Eliot: Embracing National Identity in Daniel Deronda
Denise Tischler Millstein, Louisiana State University

The Phantom Walking the Text: The Death of the Author Reconsidered
Sten Moslund, University of Southern Denmark

Timeless and (Un)original : the Role of Gossip in R.K. Narayan's The Man-Eater
of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs
James Peacock, University of Edinburgh

The Kuleshov Effect and the Death of the Auteur
Michael Russell, The University of Edinburgh

Jean-Luc Godard and Roy Lichtenstein: Originality, Reflexivity, and the
Re-Presented Image
Daniel Yacavone, University of Edinburgh

Reviews
Catherine Labio, Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from
Descartes to Kant
Joe Hughes, University of Edinburgh