An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow

Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J M Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology Basing the argument upon the assumption that Robinson Crusoe is a myth of the Enlightenment ideology representing the master narrative of the Enlightenment discourse, the book examines how the major ideological themes of the Enlightenment master narrative as manifested through the myth of Robinson Crusoe are rearticulated in Friday and Foe It dismantles how these two re-visions, through deconstructive freeplay, question and more importantly deconstruct the basic premises and principles, or the concepts that enjoy the full presence of an absolute signified in the myth of Robinson Crusoe Thus these re-visions not only transform the logocentric repressive structure in Defoe’s text into open-ended and dialogic discourses, they also partly constitute a chain of differance in signifying the myth of Robinson Crusoe The author desires to generate large-scale understandings from small-scale insights through this research

Différance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe: Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee and Deconstructive Re-visions of a Myth

The Cre-loxP system produces structural variations, such as deletion, duplication, inversion and translocation, at specific loci and induces chromosomal rearrangements in the genome. To achieve chromosomal rearrangements in Kluyveromyces marxianus, the positions and sequences of centromeres were identified in this species for the first time. Next, a Cre-loxP system was established in K. marxianus. In this system, the Cre recombinase was expressed from a leaky LAC4 promoter in a plasmid to alleviate the cytotoxicity of Cre, and the unstable plasmid contained a panARS element to facilitate the clearance of the plasmid from the cells. By using LAC4 as a reporter gene, the recombination frequencies between loxP sites or loxPsym sites were 99% and 73%, respectively. A K. marxianus strain containing 16 loxPsym sites in the genome was constructed. The recombination frequency of large-scale chromosomal rearrangements between 16 loxPsym sites was up to 38.9%. Our study provides valuable information and tools for studying chromosomal structures and functions in K. marxianus.

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Haiyan Ren

Papers

Différance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe: Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee and Deconstructive Re-visions of a Myth

Establishment of a Cre-loxP System Based on a Leaky LAC4 Promoter and an Unstable panARS Element in Kluyveromyces marxianus