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Articles

  1. Fishing for Stories: What "Big Two-Hearted River" is Really About
  2. Robert Paul Lamb
  3. pp. 161-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0322
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  1. Marlow's Rhetoric of (Self-) Deception in Heart of Darkness
  2. Barry Stampfl
  3. pp. 183-196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0454
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  1. "This Obsessive Reinvention of the Real": Speculative Narrative in Philip Roth's the Counterlife
  2. Debra Shostak
  3. pp. 197-215
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0586
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  1. The Re-Humanization of Art: Pictorial Aesthetics in John Fowles's The Ebony Tower and Daniel Martin
  2. Lynne S. Vieth
  3. pp. 217-233
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0719
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Notes and Discussion

  1. Covering a Debt: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Francis Cugat
  2. D. Mesher
  3. pp. 235-239
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0852
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  1. Raymond Carver's Monologic Imagination
  2. Miriam Marty Clark
  3. pp. 240-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0985
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Book Reviews

  1. Writing the American Classics (review)
  2. Linda Wagner-Martin
  3. p. 253
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0270
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  1. Cather Studies, Volume I, and: The Humanization of Willa Cather: Classicism in an American Classic, and: After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser, and: Willa Cather's Modernism: A Study of Style and Technique (review)
  2. Loretta Wasserman
  3. pp. 254-256
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0402
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  1. The Dramatic Landscape of Steinbeck's Short Stories, and: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck, and: New Essays on "The Grapes of Wrath", and: Inside Cannery Row: Sketches from the Steinbeck Era (review)
  2. Joseph R. Millichap
  3. pp. 256-259
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0533
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  1. Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951 (review)
  2. Albert E. Kalson
  3. pp. 259-261
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0666
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  1. Gertrude Stein, and: Reading Gertrude Stem: Body, Text, Gnosis (review)
  2. Michael J. Hoffman
  3. pp. 261-263
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0799
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  1. Hemingway in Italy and Other Essays (review)
  2. Albert J. DeFazio III
  3. pp. 263-264
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0932
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  1. Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life (review)
  2. George Hendrick
  3. pp. 264-265
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0216
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  1. Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren, and: To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones (review)
  2. Allen D. Boyer
  3. pp. 266-267
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0349
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  1. Vietnam in American Literature, and: Doing Time in American Prisons: A Study of Modern Novels (review)
  2. Thomas Myers
  3. pp. 268-270
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0481
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  1. Conversation with Raymond Carver (review)
  2. Patricia Henley
  3. pp. 270-271
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0613
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  1. Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power, and: The Gnostic Pynchon (review)
  2. Steven Weisenburger
  3. pp. 271-273
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0746
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  1. The Crime of Innocence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison, and: Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker (review)
  2. P. Jane Splawn
  3. pp. 274-275
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0879
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  1. Inter/View: Talks with America's Writing Women (review)
  2. Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. pp. 275-276
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1012
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  1. Regression and Apocalypse: Studies in North American Literary Expressionism, and: In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age (review)
  2. Lois Parkinson Zamora
  3. pp. 276-279
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0297
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  1. Vicente Leñero: The Novelist as Critic, and: García Márquez: 100 Years of Solitude, and: García Márquez: The Man and His Work, and: Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts (review)
  2. Pamela Finnegan
  3. pp. 280-283
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0429
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  1. Knives and Angels: Women Writers in Latin America, and: Women's Voice in Latin American Literature, and: Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabel Allende (review)
  2. Sharon Magnarelli
  3. pp. 284-287
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0561
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  1. Brazilian Fiction: Aspects and Evolution of the Contemporary Narrative (review)
  2. Paul Dixon
  3. pp. 287-288
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0694
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 288-291
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0827
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  1. The Language of Thomas Hardy, and: Hardy the Writer: Surveys and Assessments, and: Thomas Hardy and His God: A Liturgy of Unbelief, and: Thomas Hardy (review)
  2. Linda M. Austin
  3. pp. 291-295
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0960
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  1. Darkness at Heart: Fathers and Sons in Conrad, and: Joseph Conrad: Narrative Technique and Ideological Commitment (review)
  2. John Halperin
  3. pp. 295-296
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0244
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  1. W. H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise, and: In the Spirit of Powys: New Essays (review)
  2. John Walker
  3. pp. 296-298
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0376
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  1. Narcissis and the Novel (review)
  2. Harold H. Watts
  3. p. 299
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0508
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  1. Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence (review)
  2. Harold H. Watts
  3. pp. 299-300
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0640
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  1. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work, and: Who Killed Virginia Woolf?: A Psychobiography, and: Virginia Woolf: A Study of the Short Fiction, and: Virginia Woolf: Strategist of Language (review)
  2. Roger Poole
  3. pp. 300-305
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0773
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  1. "Ulysses" as a Comic Novel, and: Joyce Studies Annual: 1990, and: Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium (review)
  2. Michael Patrick Gillespie
  3. pp. 306-308
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0906
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  1. On Miracle Ground: Essays on the Fiction of Lawrence Durrell (review)
  2. Reed Way Dasenbrock
  3. p. 309
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1038
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  1. In Pursuit of Doris Lessing: Nine Nations Reading, and: Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark (review)
  2. Margaret Moan Rowe
  3. pp. 310-311
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0323
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Other Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 312-313
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0455
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  1. Drieu La Rochelle and the Picture Gallery Novel: French Modernism in the Interwar Years (review)
  2. Nada Elia
  3. pp. 313-314
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0587
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  1. Albert Camus, and: Albert Camus (review)
  2. Thomas M. Hines
  3. pp. 314-317
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0720
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  1. Dürrenmatt: Reinterpretation in Retrospect (review)
  2. Keith Bullivant
  3. pp. 317-318
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0853
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  1. Responses to Christa Wolf: Critical Essays (review)
  2. Kathleen L. Komar
  3. pp. 318-320
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0986
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  1. Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance, and: Calvino and the Age of Neorealism: Fables of Estrangement (review)
  2. JoAnn Cannon
  3. pp. 320-322
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0271
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  1. Worlds within Worlds: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, and: Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative, and: The Genesis of "The Brothers Karamazov": The Aesthetics, Ideology, and Psychology of Text Making (review)
  2. Gary R. Jahn
  3. pp. 322-324
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0403
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  1. Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography. Vol. I, 1890-1928, and: Four Contemporary Russian Writers, and: Soviet Literature in the 1980s: Decade of Transition (review)
  2. Walter F. Kolonosky
  3. pp. 325-328
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0534
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  1. Images of the Sign: Semiotic Consciousness in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós, and: Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos (review)
  2. Nina L. Molinaro
  3. pp. 329-330
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0667
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 330-331
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0800
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  1. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (review)
  2. Kanishka Chowdhury
  3. pp. 331-332
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0933
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  1. Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death (review)
  2. Tim Brennan
  3. pp. 333-334
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0217
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  1. The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980s (review)
  2. Nalini Iyer
  3. pp. 334-335
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0350
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  1. Suicidal Narrative in Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu (review)
  2. Marvin Marcus
  3. pp. 335-336
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0482
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 337
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0614
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  1. Short Story Theory at a Crossroads, and: Re-reading the Short Story (review)
  2. Wendell Aycock
  3. pp. 337-338
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0747
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  1. Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe, and: Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches, and: Science Fiction in the Real World (review)
  2. Donald M. Hassler
  3. pp. 339-340
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0880
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  1. Modern Allegory and Fantasy: Rhetorical Stances of Contemporary Writing (review)
  2. E. Ann Kaplan
  3. pp. 340-342
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1013
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  1. Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates: Copyright and Conan Doyle in America 1890-1930, and: Mother of Detective Fiction: The Life and Works of Anna Katharine Green, and: John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study, and: Eric Ambler, and: The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers (review)
  2. Edward S. Lauterbach
  3. pp. 343-348
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0298
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  1. The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory (review)
  2. Larry D. Harred
  3. pp. 348-349
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0430
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  1. The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction (review)
  2. Malini Schueller
  3. pp. 349-350
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0562
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 350
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0695
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  1. Reading Narrative Discourse: Studies in the Novel from Cervantes to Beckett (review)
  2. Mark Osteen
  3. pp. 351-352
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0828
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  1. Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall (review)
  2. Thomas Dukes
  3. pp. 352-353
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0961
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  1. Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology (review)
  2. Nada Elia
  3. pp. 353-354
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0245
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  1. European Literature and Theology in the Twentieth Century: Ends of Time (review)
  2. Michael Beehler
  3. pp. 354-355
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0377
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  1. Frivolity Unbound: Six Masters of the Camp Novel, and: Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years (review)
  2. Susan J. Leonardi
  3. pp. 356-357
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0509
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  1. Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel. Robert Stone/Isabel Allende/Charles McCarry/Marge Piercy/Gore Vidal (review)
  2. Mark Osteen
  3. pp. 357-358
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0641
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  1. Circus of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism and the Comic Vision (review)
  2. Robert D. Newman
  3. p. 359
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0774
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  1. Strategies of Reticence: Silence and Meaning in the Works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion (review)
  2. Sharon Felton
  3. pp. 360-361
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0907
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  1. Covert Relations: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Henry James, and: Self & Form in Modern Narrative, and: Afterimages of Modernity: Structure and Indifference in Twentieth-Century Literature (review)
  2. Bonnie Kime Scott
  3. pp. 361-364
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1039
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  1. In Her Own Write: Twentieth Century Women's Fiction, and: Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women (review)
  2. Andrea J. Krause
  3. pp. 364-366
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0324
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 367
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0456
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Index

  1. Announcement
  3. p. 369
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1479
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Award

  1. Award
  3. pp. 158-159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1471
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Contributors

  1. Contributors
  3. p. 160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1037
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Erratum

  1. Correction
  3. p. 370
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0588
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