Contents An Icelander in Dodging Dimensions; The Revolution Hegemonic Tension in The Trickster of Seville; The Bomb in Conrad's Literal and Narrative Explosions of Time in The Secret Agent; McCuller's Unreadable Anomaly, Transgression and Desire; Gardens of A Chicana's Dilemma in Denise Chavez's Will Game; Salute? A Wink and a Nod? The Finger?: Basic Writers and Gestures to Authority; Lowell's Life Heroic Self Deconstruction or Death to the Medusa Mother?; Palimpsest of The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance; Freire, Schaef and Co-Dependency in Graduate Programs; Its in the Way that You Use British Villainy Defined and Subverted, or the Rickman Effect; etc.