Frontmatter -- Notice to Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Contents -- Addresses of Editors -- Addresses of Contributors -- Knowledge of 'Beowulf' in its Own Time -- Comment on "Knowledge of 'Beowulf' in its Own Time" by Professor Frederic G. Cassidy -- Henry Fielding and Jacques Esprit -- National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research -- The Decentered Center of Ezra Pound's Hugh. Selwyn Mauberley -- "A Constitutional Inability to Say Yes:" Thorstein Vehlen, the Reconstruction Program of The Dial, and the Development of American Modernism after World War I -- How Stories Begin: Devices of Exposition in 600 English, American and Canadian Short Stories -- Two Recreate One: The Act of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography -- The Fantastic in Fiction: Its 'Reality' Status, its Historical Development and its Transformation in Postmodern Narration -- Research in Progress