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Contributors

  1. Contributors
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0495
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Articles

  1. The Gnomonics of Dubliners
  2. Bernard Benstock
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0627
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  1. The Grotesque Rose: Medieval Romance and The Great Gatsby
  2. Jerome Mandel
  3. pp. 541-558
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0760
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  1. Italic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in Invisible Cities
  2. Laurence A. Breiner
  3. pp. 559-573
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0893
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  1. Stingo's Complaint: Styron and the Politics of Self-Parody
  2. Ralph Tutt
  3. pp. 575-586
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1026
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Notes and Discussion

  1. The Two Narrators and Happy Ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four
  2. Richard K. Sanderson
  3. pp. 587-595
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0311
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  1. E. M. Forster's A Passage to India: What Really Happened in the Caves
  2. Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran
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Book Reviews

  1. Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men, and: The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War, and: From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America, and: Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels, and: Gender and the Writer's Imagination: From Cooper to Wharton, and: American Historical Romance (review)
  2. Gary Scharnhorst
  3. pp. 611-616
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0708
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  1. Henry James and the Evolution of Consciousness: A Study of "The Ambassadors", and: Searching for the Figure in the Carpet in the Tales of Henry James: Reflections of an Ordinary Reader, and: Henry James: Selected Letters (review)
  2. Rosalie Hewitt
  3. pp. 617-619
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0841
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  1. Sherwood Anderson (review)
  2. David Stouck
  3. pp. 619-620
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0974
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  1. Hemingway's Craft of Omission: Four Manuscript Examples, and: The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him (review)
  2. W.J. Stuckey
  3. pp. 621-622
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0259
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  1. William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist: A Biography, and: William Faulkner: Letters and Fictions, and: Reading Faulknerian Tragedy (review)
  2. Arthur F. Kinney
  3. pp. 622-628
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0391
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  1. Thomas Wolfe and His Editors, and: A Thomas Wolfe Companion (review)
  2. John S. Phillipson
  3. pp. 628-630
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0522
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  1. The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate, and: T. S. Stribling: Pioneer Realist in Modern Southern Literature, and: Welty: A Life in Literature, and: Southerners and Europeans: Essays in a Time of Disorder (review)
  2. Victor A. Kramer
  3. pp. 631-633
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0655
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  1. Ishmael Reed and the New Black Aesthetic Critics, and: The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston, and: New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Biracial and Bicultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison, and: New Essays on Invisible Man, and: Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (review)
  2. Keith Byerman
  3. pp. 634-638
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0788
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  1. Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism, and: The Fiction of Walker Percy, and: Conversations with Peter Taylor (review)
  2. Joseph R. Millichap
  3. pp. 638-641
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0921
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  1. Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations, and: Truman Capote: Conversations, and: With All My Might, and: William Styron, and: The Southern Vision of Andrew Lytle (review)
  2. Margaret Jones Bolsterli
  3. pp. 642-643
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0205
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  1. Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford (review)
  2. Joseph J. Firebaugh
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0338
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  1. Reading Philip Roth, and: Shadows Within: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers (review)
  2. Leslie Field
  3. pp. 645-646
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0470
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  1. Leon Edel and Literary Art (review)
  2. William H. Epstein
  3. pp. 646-647
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0602
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  1. Conversations with John Cheever (review)
  2. Lynne M. Waldeland
  3. pp. 648-649
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0735
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  1. Contemporary American Fiction, and: Facing Texts: Encounters between Contemporary Writers and Critics, and: Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, and: Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (review)
  2. Brooke K. Horvath
  3. pp. 649-654
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0868
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  1. The Light of Imagination: Mavis Gallant's Fiction (review)
  2. Karen Dwyer
  3. pp. 654-655
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1001
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  1. All the Polarities: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Canadian Novels in French and English (review)
  2. Arnold E. Davidson
  3. pp. 655-656
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0286
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  1. The Web of Tradition: Uses of Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's Fiction (review)
  2. Harveen Sachdeva Mann
  3. pp. 656-658
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0418
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  1. Treading the Ebony Path: Ideology and Violence in Contemporary Afro-Colombian Prose Fiction, and: García Márquez: Writer of Colombia (review)
  2. Pamela Finnegan
  3. pp. 658-660
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0549
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  1. Middle Grounds: Studies in Contemporary American Fiction, and: In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and: The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon, and: At the Field's End: Interviews with 20 Pacific Northwest Writers (review)
  2. Steven Weisenburger
  3. pp. 660-664
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0682
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  1. Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to "Gravity's Rainbow", and: The Style of Connectedness: "Gravity's Rainbow" and Thomas Pynchon (review)
  2. Joseph W. Slade
  3. pp. 665-666
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0815
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  1. Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America: High Noon to Midnight (review)
  2. Larry D. Harred
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Other Books Received

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  1. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Volume 6: 1920-1925, and: The Unknown Thomas Hardy: Lesser-Known Aspects of Hardy's Life and Career (review)
  2. John Halperin
  3. pp. 672-674
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0364
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  1. Thomas Hardy: The "Dream-Country" of His Fiction, and: Hardy's Influence on the Modern Novel (review)
  2. W. Eugene Davis
  3. pp. 675-676
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0496
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  1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years (review)
  2. Hans-Peter Breuer
  3. pp. 677-678
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0628
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  1. Culture and Irony: Studies in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels (review)
  2. David Leon Higdon
  3. pp. 679-680
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0761
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  1. The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies, and: Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (review)
  2. Molly Hite
  3. pp. 680-682
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0894
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  1. Regions of the Imagination: The Development of British Rural Fiction (review)
  2. Robin Inboden
  3. pp. 682-683
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1027
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  1. Vico and Joyce, and: Joyce's Uncertainty Principle, and: James Joyce (review)
  2. Cheryl Herr
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0312
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  1. Reading Joyce's "Ulysses", and: "A Portrait of the Artist" in Different Perspective (review)
  2. Monika Fludernik
  3. pp. 687-689
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0444
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  1. Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (review)
  2. Pat Carr
  3. pp. 690-691
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0576
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  1. The Novel as Family Romance: Language, Gender and Authority from Fielding to Joyce (review)
  2. Mary Power
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0709
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  1. Virginia Woolf for Beginners, and: To the Lighthouse: The Marriage of Life and Art, and: Virginia Woolf: Feminist Destinations (review)
  2. Jane Elizabeth Fisher
  3. pp. 692-695
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0842
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  1. Pillar of Flame: The Mythological Foundations of D. H. Lawrence's Sexual Philosophy, and: Domestic Disharmony and Industrialization in D. H. Lawrence's Early Fiction, and: Lawrence and Nietzsche: A Study in Influence, and: Memoir of Maurice Magnus (review)
  2. Jeffrey Meyers
  3. pp. 695-699
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0975
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  1. British Writers of the Thirties (review)
  2. Lisa M. Schwerdt
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  1. C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement (review)
  2. Brian Murray
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0392
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  1. The Short Narratives of E. M. Forster, and: George Orwell (review)
  2. Richard J. Voorhees
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0523
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  1. Graham Greene's Childless Fathers (review)
  2. A. A. DeVitis
  3. pp. 704-705
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0656
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  1. Aldous Huxley and Film (review)
  2. Jerome Meckier
  3. pp. 705-707
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0789
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  1. Rereading Doris Lessing: Narrative Patterns of Doubling and Repetition, and: The Theme of Enclosure in Selected Works of Doris Lessing (review)
  2. Margaret Moan Rowe
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0922
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  1. Doris Lessing: The Alchemy of Survival (review)
  2. Betsy Draine
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  1. Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (review)
  2. Bruce A. Beatie, Phyllis W. Powell
  3. pp. 712-713
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0471
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  1. Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks, and: Georg Lukács and Thomas Mann (review)
  2. Kurt Fickert
  3. pp. 714-716
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0603
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  1. Kafka's Prussian Advocate: A Study of the Influence of Heinrich von Kleist on Franz Kafka (review)
  2. Clayton Koelb
  3. pp. 716-717
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0736
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  1. Novel Configurations: A Study of French Fiction (review)
  2. Philip H. Solomon
  3. pp. 717-718
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0869
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  1. Paris: A Literary Companion (review)
  2. Kari Weil
  3. pp. 718-719
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1002
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  1. Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company, and: Samuel Beckett's New Worlds: Style in Metafiction (review)
  2. Frederik N. Smith
  3. pp. 719-721
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0287
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  1. Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett (review)
  2. S. E. Gontarski
  3. pp. 722-723
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0419
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  1. Six Memos for the Next Milllenium, and: Alienation in Giuseppe Berto's Novels (review)
  2. Anthony J. Tamburri
  3. pp. 723-726
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0550
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  1. Psychology, Religion, and Ethics in Galdós' Novels: The Quest for Authenticity (review)
  2. Theodore Alan Sackett
  3. pp. 726-727
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0683
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  1. Other Books Received
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0816
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  1. The Return of the Reader: Reader-response Criticism, and: Words About Words About Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text, and: The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850 (review)
  2. William E. Cain
  3. pp. 729-731
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0949
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  1. History, Politics, and the Novel (review)
  2. Marilyn Sibley Fries
  3. p. 732
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0233
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  1. Contemporary Political Satire: Narrative Strategies in the Post-Modern Context, and: Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy, and: Postmodernist Fiction (review)
  2. E. Ann Kaplan
  3. pp. 733-735
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0365
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  1. The Current in Criticism: Essays on the Present and Future of Literary Theory (review)
  2. John Fekete
  3. pp. 736-738
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0497
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  1. The Self-conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon, and: The Dark and Light Gods: Essays on the Self in Modem Literature (review)
  2. Marvin Magalaner
  3. pp. 738-739
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0629
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  1. Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, and: Pieces of Resistance (review)
  2. Robert Newsom
  3. pp. 740-741
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0762
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  1. Anzia Yezierska: A Writer's Life, and: The Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914 (review)
  2. Strother B. Purdy
  3. pp. 742-743
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0895
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  1. The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge (review)
  2. Steven G. Kellman
  3. pp. 743-744
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1028
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  1. Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction, and: Consuming Fiction (review)
  2. Jean E. Kennard
  3. pp. 745-747
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0313
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  1. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Volume 1: The War of the Words, and: Women Reading Women's Writing (review)
  2. Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. pp. 747-749
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0445
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  1. Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass Market Fiction for Women (review)
  2. Kate Ellis
  3. pp. 749-750
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0577
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  1. Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction (review)
  2. Bonnie Lyons
  3. pp. 750-751
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0710
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  1. The Vietnamese Novel in French: A Literary Response to Colonialism (review)
  2. Thomas Myers
  3. pp. 752-753
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0843
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  1. Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun, and: The Odyssey of Shen Congwen (review)
  2. Perry Link
  3. pp. 753-755
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0976
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  1. Reading the African Novel (review)
  2. Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan
  3. pp. 755-756
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0261
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  1. The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside (review)
  2. Timothy Brennan
  3. pp. 756-757
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0393
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 758-759
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0524
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Correspondence

  1. Correspondence
  2. Charlotte Spivack, Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. p. 605
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0575
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Index

  1. Modern Fiction Studies Volume 34: 1988
  3. pp. 760-762
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1408
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