Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Texts and the Rendering of Imaginative Reality TODD BREYFOGLE
Prelude
In a Drizzly Light BRENDAN KENNELLY
Part One
Atheism and the Religiosity of Euripides MARTIN OSTWALD
Poetry and Philosophy in Aristophanes' Clouds JAMES REDFIELD
Calypso's Choice: Immortality and Heroic Striving in the Odyssey and Ulysses STEPHANIE NELSON
The Homecomings of Odysseus and Nala WENDY DONIGER
A Bird, a Mouse, a Frog, and Some Fish: A New Reading of Leviticus II MARY DOUGLAS
Confabulating Cephalus: Self-Narration in Ovid's Metamorphoses (7.672-865) W.R. JOHNSON
Memory and Imagination in Augustine's Confessions TODD BREYFOGLE
Metamorphosis and Conversion: Apuleius's Metamorphoses SETH BENARDETE
Against Entertainment: Plato and the Poets Revisited NORMA THOMPSON
Interlude
"The Photographer": An Essay by Soseki TRANSLATED BY EDWIN McCLELLAN
Part Two
"I Know Thee Not, Old Man": The Renunciation of Falstaff AMIRTHANAYAGAM P. DAVID
Transforming Conventions: The Troupe of Decorum and Thomas Sheridan's Captain O'Blunder SANDRA F. SIEGEL
Synge: Reality and the Imagination of Place NICHOLAS GRENE
Mallarmé and English FRANçOISE MELTZER
T.S. Eliot as Religious Thinker: Four Quartets DAVID TRACY
Rousseau on Providence VICTOR GOUREVITCH
Dostoyevsky's Trojan Horse: A Raw Youth JOSEPH N. FRANK
Henry James and Modern Moral Life ROBERT B. PIPPIN
Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson: Mutually Antipathetic Minds CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN
Postlude
Problems in American Literature SAUL BELLOW
Select Bibliography: Works by David Grene
Contributors
Index