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Mary Jean Corbett's provocative study of nineteenth-century ''fictions of family'' approaches its family fictions by carefully considering who did and did not count as immediate kin within an evolving mesh of nineteenthcentury incest proscriptions and marital practices. Corbett immediately commands the reader's attention with back-to-back chapters turning on rigorously historicized readings of Virginia Stephen's ''Reminiscences'' (1907-8), a key document for the literature on Virginia Woolf and incest, and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), likewise a text central to our understanding of incest in nineteenth-century literature. In these two chapters, Corbett lays out breathtakingly original readings of what could be called canonical incest texts, achieved by explicating precisely what incest would and would not have meant to Virginia Stephen (later Woolf), Jane Austen, and their respective societies. Through this painstaking work of historicization, Corbett demonstrates that a whole layer of erotic conflict and upset within ''Reminiscences'' responds not to Virginia Stephen's own sexual abuse at the hands of her half brothers, but to the Stephen-Duckworth family's shocked and divided reaction to an emerging romantic bond between Vanessa Stephen (later Bell) and Jack Hills, the widower of Virginia and Vanessa's sister, Stella. Corbett's reading does not minimize, let alone deny, either the reality or the impact of Woolf's early sexual abuse by her half brothers. Rather, she resituates this traumatic strand of Stephen-Duckworth family relations relative to another kind of incest, one of great social and moral significance in Virginia Woolf's youth, that has since fallen out of our definitional framework. Stephen's ''Reminiscences'' recalls a family racked with erotic anguish

Drought is a major factor in decreased sugarcane productivity because of the resulting morphophysiological effects that it causes. Gene expression studies that have examined the influence of water stress in sugarcane have yielded divergent results, indicating the absence of a fixed pattern of changes in gene expression. In this work, we investigated the expression profiles of 12 genes in the leaves of a drought-tolerant genotype (RB72910) of sugarcane and compared the results with those of other studies. The genotype was subjected to 80-100% water availability (control condition) and 0-20% water availability (simulated drought). To analyze the physiological status, the SPAD index, Fv/Fm ratio, net photosynthesis (A), stomatal conductance (g s) and stomatal transpiration (E) were measured. Total RNA was extracted from leaves and the expression of SAMDC, ZmPIP2-1 protein, ZmTIP4-2 protein, WIP protein, LTP protein, histone H3, DNAj, ferredoxin I, b-tubulin, photosystem I, gene 1 and gene 2 was analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR (RT-PCR). Important differences in the expression profiles of these genes were observed when compared with other genotypes, suggesting that complex defense mechanisms are activated in response to water stress. However, there was no recognizable pattern for the changes in expression of the different proteins associated with tolerance to drought stress.

The Crying Game's central, tragic theme of warrior/lovers caught between their love for one another and loyalty to their respective factions has signi cant roots in early Celtic mythology. The elegaic theme of potential lovers forced into ill-fated combat that frames the lm's events also, signi cantly, bears the weight of the lm's most unambiguous political commentary, when Fergus speaks directly to the picture of Jody in Dil's apartment, telling him:'You should have stayed at home.' This sad remonstration, which clearly lays responsibility for the chain of causality that has led to so much suffering not with Jody, but with the British state, is similar in quality to Cu Chulainn's lament as he contemplates his meeting with Ferdia. When we listen carefully for ways in which Celtic mythical themes underlie and nuance the lm's events, different rhythms emerge, accenting different beats.

McCann was born in Derry, into the first generation of workingclass Catholics to benefit from the Education Act of 1947. McCann's biography is in a sense paradigmatic of the experiences of this generation. Guaranteeing free secondary and third-level education throughout the UK and implemented in Northern Ireland over the objections of Unionist MPs, the Education Act of 1947 led to the emergence of a generation of cultural and political luminaries, including Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane, and Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey), and brought about social conditions propitious to the emergence of the Northern Ireland civil-rights movement. While his career as an activist and writer now spans four decades, McCann is best known for his role in the Derry civil-rights movement. With Eamonn Melaugh, McCann was the primary organizer of Derry's first civil-rights march, which took place on 5 October 1968. McCann describes the organizers of this march as "a loose group of radicals who had been trying for months, with some success, to create general political mayhem in the city." 1 Drawn from the James Connolly Republican Club and the local Labour party, the organizers of the march formed themselves into the Derry Housing Action Committee. They sought to draw attention to the lack of safe, decent housing in Derry and to direct growing outrage among the people of Derry toward the root causes of poor housing, unemployment, and lack of civil rights, which they took to be political and economic. Viewed from a geographical and temporal remove, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) has often been represented as the driving force behind the civil-rights movement. It is important to note, however, that McCann and his comrades differed with NICRA and with the nationalist establishment in every possible respect. Indeed, NICRA sought to call off the 5 October march in AN INTERVIEW WITH EAMONN McCANN

I   A Star Called Henry (), Roddy Doyle has his fictional protagonist Henry Smart, a fourteen-year-old Irish Citizen Army volunteer, ask the socialist labor organizer and Easter Rising leader James Connolly to add something to the founding document of the Irish state, the  Proclamation of the Irish Republic, "about the rights of children." This invention invites readers to consider that the Proclamation's famous commitment to "cherish all the children of the nation equally" might have been intended and understood, by at least some of the Rising's participants, as not merely symbolic but as a commitment to actual children. This move 118

Though information literacy (IL) instruction is often assumed by faculty to be electronic, introductory, and teachable in a single visit, our collaboration on an inquiry-driven, research-intensive capstone course for English majors focused instead on bringing their information gathering and critical thinking skills up to a disciplinary level. Students completed a series of increasingly complex special collections assignments to practice working among archival items, electronic databases, and conventional print works. Collaboration and some degree of role flexibility became essential to our goal of imparting a more advanced, comprehensive, and disciplinary version of IL to students.

Mazella offers a wide-ranging and ambitious argument about assessment and broader issues of institutional organization. Mazella bases his conclusions on research into institutional behavior as well as his own experience launching the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Houston.

This article describes a unique course-based collaboration involving an English professor, a Learning Strategies Counselor, and a Librarian. The potential benefits and barriers of collaborative teaching in literature are reviewed. The article delineates a three-way instruction model built around an annotated bibliography assignment in a junior-level English class. The model integrates instruction in information literacy, critical reading, and literary studies to help students become effective readers and researchers. The results indicate that students benefit from this teaching model. The article also offers ways to make collaborative teaching work and provides suggestions for further research.