Homenatge a Javier Coy, catedràtic jubilat del Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya de la Universitat de València de 1990 a 2000 i un dels primers investigadors a introduir els estudis nord-americans. Recull de 50 articles d'especialistes en aquest camp, que reflecteixen l'estat dels estudis sobre la cultura i la literatura dels Estats Units contemporanis.
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- Human Attitudes and Their Terra Incognita in Tennessee William's Plays. Nieves Alberola Crespo
- Man's Fantasy, Woman's Death: The Subtle Operations of Idealism in Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark". Esther Álvarez López
- The Image of La Folle in Kate Chopin's "Beyond the Bayou". José Manuel Barrio Marco
- Thomas Merton's Critique of Globalization. Fernando Beltrán Llavador
- Aesthetic Pursuit or Rational Escape? James Baldwin's and Julio Cortázar's Recreation of the Jazzman as Rebel Artist. Jesús Benito Sánchez
- Ron Silliman's Remarks on Post-Referential Poetry. Manuel Brito
- Tracking the Female Energy of V.: Glimpses of the Pynchonian. Francisco Collado Rodríguez
- Edward Riveraa and America Mythology: A Reading of Family Installments. Juan José Cruz
- An Ongoing Missive to the Spirit of Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Russell Di Napoli
- Latino Autobiography, the Aesthetic, and Political Criticism: The Case of Hunger of Memory. Isabel Durán
- Race and Money in Pudd'snhead Wilson. Emory Elliot
- Intimations on Four Poems by Wallace Stevens. Mary E. Farrell
- Afro-Caribbean Women Writers and US Literary Studies: Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Nunez. Ana Mª Fraile Marcos
- African-American Women Artists in Paris: Sex and Politics in Josephine Baker's La Revue Nègre (1925), and Maya Angelou's Porgy and Bess (1954). María Frías
- Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance: Double Consciousness, Talented Tenth, and tthe New Negro. Mar Gallego
- "Into the Land of Dreams": A Pyrenean Excursion in Lee Meriwether's Seeing Europe by Automobile (1911). Pere Gifra Adroher
- Intellectual Affinities: the Southern Fugitive-Agrarians and the Spanish Generation of '98. Montserrat Ginés
- Norman Mailer: The last Tough Guy. Manuel González de la Aleja Barberán
- Eudora Welty's The Optimist Daughter: The Regenerative Return to the Houses and Rooms of the Past. Constante González Groba
- Metatext as Cognitive Metonymy: An Experientialist Approach to Metafiction. Juani Guerra
- Hysteria and Communism in Arthur Miller's Rewritting of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Juan Ignacio Guijarro González
- Pierre Menard in New England. David Hamilton
- Not so Original, Mr. Shyalaman: A. Bierce's Elongated Shadow over The Sixth Sense. Aitor Ibarrola Armendariz
- Conspiracy Theory: Chronic Psychoses in Contemporany Metafiction. Santiago Juan Navarro
- Spiritual Beauties and Beautiful Colours in Edwards and Emerson. Juan José Lanero
- Sources of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Douglas Edward LaPrade
- Literary Ethics and Pragmatist Aesthetics. Antonio Lastra
- Williams Carlos Williams's Travelling Culture. José Liste Noya
- "The Shadow of the Wound-Mark": Poetic Witnessing in Darkness. Juan López Gavilán
- Beyond Borders: The Native-American C(h)ase. Mª Felisa López Liquete
- "I am so fascinated by Spain": John Dos Passos, January 1917. Townsend Ludington
- Magic Realism in Contemporary American Fiction. Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo
- Whitman and America: The Biographical Commitent. Félix Martín
- The Complex Fable of William Faulkner in Search of an Interpretation. Catalina Montes
- Poe's American Gothic, or the Gap between Reference and Signification. Marita Nadal Blasco
- "The New Buffalo": Reservation Gambling in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace. María Ruth Noriega Sánchez
- Jefferson on the Constitution of Cadiz. Joaquim Oltra
- The Rhetorical Dimension of Character in Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality. Elena Ortells
- The Devils and Dilemmas of Feminist Biography: Writing the Life of Susan Glaspell. Barbara Ozieblo
- "Caught up in the tragedy of modern history": Tradition and Modernity in John Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshhot Scandal. Daniel Pastor García
- T. S. Eliot's Poetics of History and Tradition. Viorica Patea
- Ontology and Epistemology of the Short Story. Mercedes Peñalba García
- Robert Creeley with Charles Olson, The Island ad the Painters
- Nevada as the Sin State: Tweintieth-Century Fictional Portraits. David Río Raigadas
- New Jersey and The Sopranos. Michael Aaron Rockland
- William Gass, the Short Story, and Metafiction. Elaine B. Safer
- The American Historical Novel: Gore Videl. Agustin Safón Supervía
- No City of God: Urban Images in the Fiction of Nella Larsen andJessie Fauset. Pilar Sánchez Calle
- Everyone Knows (?): Philip Roth's The Human Stain. Isabel Soto
- Pocahontas, Mother of the New Woman in Charlotte barnes's The Forest Princess. Ruth Stoner
- Joseph Cornell, Collector and Historian. Juan Antonio Suárez
- From the "Rude Stream" to the Mainstream and Beyond: A Twentieth-Century Journey through Jewish American Prose. Martín Urdiales Shaw
- Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans