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Articles

  1. Telling Lies and Stories: Peter Carey's Bliss
  2. A. J. Hassall
  3. pp. 637-653
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1440
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  1. The Compositional Self in William Gaddis' JR
  2. Joseph Tabbi
  3. pp. 655-672
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1449
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  1. An American Messiah: Myth in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep
  2. Lynn Altenbernd
  3. pp. 673-687
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1458
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  1. Minimalism and the American Dream: "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and "Preservation" by Raymond Carver
  2. Barbara Henning
  3. pp. 689-698
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1467
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  1. Toward Bliss: Barthes, Lacan, and Robbe-Grillet
  2. Ben Stolzfus
  3. pp. 699-706
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1416
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Notes and Discussion

  1. In Our Time as Self-Begetting Fiction
  2. Elizabeth D. Vaughn
  3. pp. 707-716
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1426
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  1. John Kennedy Toole, The Neon Bible, and A "Confederacy" of Friends and Relatives
  2. Pat Carr
  3. pp. 716-718
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1436
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  1. Response to MFS Review of Reading Joyce's "Ulysses"
  2. Daniel R. Schwarz, Monika Fludernik
  3. pp. 719-723
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1445
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Book Reviews

  1. The Pop World of Henry James: From Fairy Tales to Science Fiction, and: Order and Design: Henry James' Titled Story Sequences, and: Sexuality and Textuality in Henry James: Reading Through the Virginal, and: "The Turn of the Screw": Bewildered Vision (review)
  2. Sarah B. Daugherty
  3. pp. 729-732
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1454
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  1. Realism and the Drama of Reference. Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James, and: Selected Letters of Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 1882-1915 (review)
  2. Motley Deakin
  3. pp. 733-734
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1463
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  1. Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America, and: The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, and: Art for Social Justice: The Major Novels of Upton Sinclair (review)
  2. Tom H. Towers
  3. pp. 734-739
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1412
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  1. Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of a Mind, and: Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America, and: Twain's Heroes, Twain's Worlds (review)
  2. Richard B. Hauck
  3. pp. 739-741
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1422
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  1. Gender, Race and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and Kate Chopin (review)
  2. Malini Schueller
  3. pp. 741-742
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1432
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  1. The Form of American Romance, and: Fiction and Historical Consciousness: The American Romance Tradition, and: Modern American Fiction: Form and Function, and: Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present (review)
  2. James W. Tuttleton
  3. pp. 743-746
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1442
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  1. The Public is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein (review)
  2. Michael J. Hoffman
  3. pp. 746-747
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1451
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  1. Ernest Hemingway Rediscovered (review)
  2. W. J. Stuckey
  3. pp. 747-748
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1460
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  1. Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice: Speech and Writing in Faulkner, and: The Crossing of the Ways: William Faulkner, the South, and the Modern World, and: Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art on Adaptation (review)
  2. André Bleikasten
  3. pp. 748-750
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1469
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  1. Fascination: Faulkner's Fiction, 1919-1936 (review)
  2. Melvin Backman
  3. pp. 751-752
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1418
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  1. James M. Cain (review)
  2. David Geherin
  3. pp. 752-753
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1428
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  1. "The Grapes of Wrath": Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, and: Looking For Steinbeck's Ghost, and: Working Days: The Journals of "The Grapes of Wrath" (review)
  2. Joseph R. Millichap
  3. pp. 753-756
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1438
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  1. Pearl S. Buck: The Final Chapter (review)
  2. Dennis W. Petrie
  3. pp. 756-757
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1447
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  1. Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structure, and: Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire" (review)
  2. Charles Ross
  3. pp. 757-758
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1456
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  1. Saul Bellow, and: The Novels of Bernard Malamud (review)
  2. Keith Opdahl
  3. pp. 759-760
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1465
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  1. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, and: The Novels of William Styron, and: Following Percy: Essays on Walker Percy's Work, and: Domestic Particulars: The Novels of Frederick Busch (review)
  2. Eugene Carroll
  3. pp. 761-764
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1414
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  1. Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and: Plays of Passion, Games of Chance: Jerzy Kosinski and His Fiction, and: The American Writer and the University (review)
  2. Stan Fogel
  3. pp. 764-767
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1424
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  1. Au-delà du soupçon: La nouvelle fiction américaine de 1960 à nos jours (review)
  2. André Bleikasten
  3. pp. 767-768
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1434
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  1. Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915, and: Stealing the Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin, and: The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (review)
  2. Keith Byerman
  3. pp. 768-771
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1444
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  1. John Updike, and: Updike's America: The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike's Rabbit Trilogy (review)
  2. William T. Stafford
  3. pp. 771-772
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1453
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  1. William Gaddis (review)
  2. Tom LeClair
  3. p. 773
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1462
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  1. Beyond and Beneath the Mantle: On Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", and: The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey (review)
  2. John M. Krafft
  3. pp. 774-776
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1411
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  1. The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists, and: Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (review)
  2. Joseph Dewey
  3. pp. 776-778
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1421
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  1. Reflections/Refractions: Reading Luisa Valenzuela, and: Pop Cultures into Art: The Novels of Manuel Puig, and: Metamorphosis to Animal Form in Modern Latin American Narrative (review)
  2. Patricia Hart
  3. pp. 778-781
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1431
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  1. Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms, and: An Other I: The Fictions of Clark Blaise (review)
  2. Wendy L. Schissel
  3. pp. 781-783
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1441
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 783-785
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1450
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  1. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Vol. 3, 1903-1907 and; Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness": A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism (review)
  2. John Halperin
  3. pp. 786-788
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1459
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  1. The Artist in Conrad's Fiction: A Psychocritical Study (review)
  2. John Feaster
  3. pp. 789-790
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1468
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  1. George Gissing at Work: A Study of His Notebook "Extracts from My Reading" (review)
  2. Hans-Peter Breuer
  3. pp. 792-793
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1427
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  1. George Moore on Parnassus: Letters (1900-1933) to Secretaries, Publishers, Printers, Agents, Literati, Friends, and Acquaintances (review)
  2. W. Eugene Davis
  3. pp. 794-795
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1437
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  1. Eros and Androgyny: The Legacy of Rose Macaulay (review)
  2. Alice R. Bensen
  3. pp. 795-796
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1446
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  1. The Novels of Neil M. Gunn: A Critical Study (review)
  2. Marilyn Reizbaum
  3. pp. 796-797
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1455
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  1. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Culture: Chronicles of Disorder, and: Missed Understandings: A Study of Stage Adaptions of the Works of James Joyce (review)
  2. Daniel R. Schwarz
  3. pp. 798-800
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1464
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  1. Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (review)
  2. Corinna Del Greco Lobner
  3. pp. 801-802
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1413
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  1. Virginia Woolf: Dramatic Novelist, and: "To The Lighthouse" and Beyond: Transformations in the Narratives of Virginia Woolf, and: Virginia Woolf: The Frames of Art and Life, and: The Sisters' Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume II (review)
  2. Steve Ferebee
  3. pp. 802-806
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1423
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  1. Lawrence at Tregerthen (review)
  2. Kingsley Widmer
  3. p. 807
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1433
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  1. E. M. Forster, and: The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 (review)
  2. John Haegert
  3. pp. 808-810
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1443
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  1. The Legacy of Olaf Stapledon: Critical Essays and an Unpublished Manuscript (review)
  2. John Huntington
  3. pp. 810-811
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1452
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  1. The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952 (review)
  2. Brian W. Shaffer
  3. pp. 811-812
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1461
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  1. Beckett and Proust, and: Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition, and: Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text (review)
  2. Adele King
  3. pp. 812-815
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1470
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  1. God, the Quest, the Hero: Thematic Structures in Beckett's Fiction, and: The Humour of Samuel Beckett (review)
  2. Philip H. Solomon
  3. pp. 815-817
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1419
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  1. Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist (review)
  2. Keith Wilson
  3. pp. 817-818
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1429
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  1. The Art of John Fowles (review)
  2. Claire Sprague
  3. pp. 818-819
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1439
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  1. Barbara Pym (review)
  2. Laura L. Doan
  3. pp. 820-821
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1448
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  1. The Alien Mind of Raymond Williams (review)
  2. Patrick Parrinder
  3. pp. 821-822
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1457
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  1. Doris Lessing (review)
  2. Nalini Iyer
  3. pp. 822-823
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1466
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  1. The Quest for le Carré (review)
  2. David Monaghan
  3. pp. 823-824
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1415
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 824-825
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1425
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  1. Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance, and: Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
  2. Richard Heinemann
  3. pp. 826-828
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1435
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  1. On the Threshold of a New Kabbalah: Kafka's Later Tales (review)
  2. Clayton Koelb
  3. pp. 828-829
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1511
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  1. The Berlin Novels of Alfred Döblin: "Wadzek's Battle with the Steam Turbine," "Berlin Alexanderplatz," "Men without Mercy," and "November, 1918", and: Vision and Revision: The Concept of Inspiration in Thomas Mann's Fiction, and: New Subjectivity and Prose Forms of Alienation: Peter Handke and Botho Strauss (review)
  2. Carol Bedwell
  3. pp. 829-833
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1518
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  1. Enfin Céline vint: A Contextualist Reading of "Journey to the End of the Night" and "Death on the Installment Plan", and: Camus: A Critical Examination, and: Claude Simon and the Transgressions of Modern Art, and: Michael Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction (review)
  2. Eugene F. Gray
  3. pp. 833-835
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1525
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  1. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890-1914, and: The Shape of the Apocalypse in Modem Russian Fiction, and: Alexander Zinoviev as Writer and Thinker (review)
  2. Thomas Gaiton Marullo
  3. pp. 836-839
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1478
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  1. Poverty and Power in the Early Works of Dostoevskij, and: Furnace of Doubt. Dostoevsky and "The Brothers Karamazov", and: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (review)
  2. Andrew R. Durkin
  3. pp. 839-841
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1488
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  1. Transparent Simulacra: Spanish Fiction, 1902-1926 (review)
  2. Maryellen Bieder
  3. pp. 842-843
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1498
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  1. Sigrid Undset: Chronicler of Norway (review)
  2. Jean A. Luscher
  3. pp. 843-844
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1507
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 845
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1515
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  1. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, and: Art and Desire: A Study in the Aesthetics of Fiction (review)
  2. Stuart M. Sperry
  3. pp. 845-847
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1523
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  1. The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice (review)
  2. Gregory Lucente
  3. pp. 847-849
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1476
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  1. The Transformation of the English Novel: 1890-1930, and: The Hero's Tale: Narrators in the Early Modern Novel, and: The Empathetic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self (review)
  2. Marvin Magalaner
  3. pp. 849-852
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1485
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  1. Modernist Conjectures: A Mainstream in European Literature, 1910-1940, and: Re-forming the Narrative: Toward a Mechanics of Modernist Fiction (review)
  2. Perry Meisel
  3. pp. 852-854
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1495
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  1. Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work (review)
  2. Joan L. Wilcox
  3. pp. 855-856
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1504
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  1. Contemporary Literary Theory, and: Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism (review)
  2. Bruce Robbins
  3. pp. 856-858
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1513
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  1. Postmodern Fiction in Europe and the Americas, and: Labyrinths of Language: Symbolic Landscape and Narrative Design in Modern Fiction, and: Modernist Survivors: The Contemporary Novel in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (review)
  2. Claudette Kemper Columbus
  3. pp. 858-861
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1520
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  1. Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought (review)
  2. Brooke K. Horvath
  3. pp. 861-862
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1472
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  1. Literary Gastronomy (review)
  2. Alison Armstrong
  3. pp. 863-864
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1481
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  1. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940, and: Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Writing (review)
  2. Susan Stanford Friedman
  3. pp. 864-867
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1491
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  1. Sexchanges, and: Writing a Woman's Life (review)
  2. Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. pp. 867-868
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1500
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  1. Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel (review)
  2. Jeanne Addison Roberts
  3. pp. 869-870
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1510
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  1. V. S. Naipaul (review)
  2. Harveen Sachdeva Mann
  3. pp. 870-871
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1517
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  1. Christina Stead (review)
  2. Phyllis Fahrie Edelson
  3. p. 872
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1524
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  1. Vision and Style in Patrick White: A Study of Five Novels (review)
  2. Peter Wolfe
  3. pp. 873-874
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1477
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  1. From Hardy to Faulkner: Wessex to Yoknapatawpha (review)
  2. Gary Harrington
  3. pp. 874-875
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1486
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  1. The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen (review)
  2. Mary Rohrberger
  3. pp. 875-876
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1496
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  1. Toward a New Synthesis: John Fowles, John Gardner, Norman Mailer (review)
  2. J. Michael Lennon
  3. pp. 876-877
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1505
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  1. Creativity and Reception: Toward a Theory of Third World Criticism (review)
  2. Nalini Iyer
  3. pp. 878-879
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1514
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 879-880
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1522
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  1. Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making, and: Oscar Wilde (review)
  2. Robert K. Miller
  3. pp. 790-792
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1417
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Index

  1. Modern Fiction Studies Volume 35: 1989
  3. pp. 881-883
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1536
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Errata

  1. Correction
  3. p. 886
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1475
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Contributors

  1. Contributors
  3. p. 636
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1430
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