Frontmatter -- Contents -- Artistry and Christianity in Pearl -- The Calumny Pattern in Shakespeare -- The English Pastoral in the Nineteenth Century -- Pointing Theory and Some Victorian Practices -- The Topicality of Beauchamp's Career -- Emerson's Nature and Whitman's "Song of Myself" -- John Crowe Ransom's Moments: A Reconstruction in the Post-Scientific Mode -- Benjy's Sound and Fury: A Critical Study of Four Interpretations -- The Drama of Fictionalized Author and Reader: A Formalist Obstacle to Literary Pragmatics -- Towards a Cultural History of Literary Translation: An Exploration of Issues and Problems in Researching the Translational Exchange between the USA and Germany -- Backmatter