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Articles

  1. Borges and the Idea of Woman
  2. Bella Brodzki
  3. pp. 149-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0555
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  1. The Dark Side of Magical Realism: Science, Oppression, and Apocalypse in One Hundred Years of Solitude
  2. Brian Conniff
  3. pp. 167-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0821
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  1. "A Piercing Virtue": Emily Dickinson in Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall
  2. Harriet F. Bergmann
  3. pp. 181-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0954
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  1. D. H. Lawrence's Mother as Sleeping Beauty: The "Still Queen" of His Poems and Fictions
  2. Judith Farr
  3. pp. 195-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0238
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Notes and Discussion

  1. James, "The Aspern Papers," and the Ethics of Literary Biography
  2. Gary Scharnhorst
  3. pp. 211-217
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0370
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  1. Shrike as the Modernist Anti-Hero in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts
  2. Beverly Jones
  3. pp. 218-224
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0502
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Book Reviews

  1. The Correspondence of Stephen Crane (review)
  2. George Monteiro
  3. pp. 229-231
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0634
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  1. Cheap Rooms and Restless Hearts: A Study of Formula in the Urban Tales of William Sydney Porter, and: Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy (review)
  2. Michael T. Marsden
  3. pp. 231-233
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0767
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  1. The Social Construction of American Realism (review)
  2. George Monteiro
  3. pp. 233-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0900
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  1. After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow (review)
  2. James Woodress
  3. pp. 235-236
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1032
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  1. Scott Fitzgerald: The Promises of Life (review)
  2. Bruce Michelson
  3. pp. 236-237
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0317
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  1. William Faulkner, and: Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha (review)
  2. James G. Watson
  3. pp. 238-239
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0449
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  1. The Trinidad Awakening: West Indian Literature of the Nineteen-Thirties (review)
  2. Ewart Skinner
  3. pp. 239-240
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0581
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  1. Caroline Gordon: A Biography, and: Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love (review)
  2. Lisa Honaker
  3. pp. 240-242
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0714
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  1. An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles (review)
  2. Lawrence D. Stewart
  3. pp. 243-244
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0847
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  1. A Rhetorical Analysis of "Under the Volcano": Malcolm Lowry's Design Governing Postures (review)
  2. Brian W. Shaffer
  3. pp. 244-245
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0980
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  1. Words in Search of Victims: The Achievement of Jerzy Kosinski (review)
  2. Jerome Klinkowitz
  3. pp. 245-246
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0265
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  1. The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain (review)
  2. Jeanne Braham
  3. pp. 246-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0397
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  1. Saul Bellow in the 1980s: A Collection of Critical Essays, and: Inevitable Exiles: Cynthia Ozick's View of the Precariousness of Jewish Existence in a Gentile Society, and: Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature (review)
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. 247-249
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0528
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  1. Controlling the Uncontrollable: The Fiction of Alice Munro (review)
  2. Paul W. Rogalus
  3. pp. 249-250
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0661
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  1. Listen to the Voices: Conversations with Contemporary Writers, and: Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature, and: Reminiscence and Recreation in Contemporary American Fiction, and: The Modern American Novella (review)
  2. Alan Nadel
  3. pp. 251-254
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0794
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  1. Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, and: The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction (review)
  2. Jerry A. Varsava
  3. pp. 255-257
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0927
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  1. Reading Mavis Gallant (review)
  2. Karen Dwyer
  3. pp. 257-258
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0211
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  1. New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon (review)
  2. Joseph J. Wydeven
  3. pp. 258-259
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0344
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Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 259-261
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0476
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  1. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Volume VII: 1926-1927, and: Hardy and the Erotic, and: Hardy and the Creator: A Textual Biography, and: Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? Hardy's Religious Biography and Its Influence on His Novels, and: Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology (review)
  2. John Halperin
  3. pp. 262-264
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0608
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  1. Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life, and: Conrad's Narrative Method (review)
  2. Mark A. Wollaeger
  3. pp. 265-267
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0741
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  1. The Road to Armageddon: The Martial Spirit in English Popular Literature, 1870-1914, and: Mark of the Beast: Death and Degradation in the Literature of the Great War (review)
  2. Joseph Heininger
  3. pp. 267-269
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0874
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  1. Crimes Against Fecundity: Joyce and Population Control, and: Writing Joyce: A Semiotics of the Joyce System, and: Joyce and the Law of the Father (review)
  2. Ellen Carol Jones
  3. pp. 270-273
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1007
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  1. The "Ulysses" Guide: Tours through Joyce's Dublin, and: James Joyce's Italian Connection, and: Joyce and Prose: An Exploration of the Language of "Ulysses", and: James Joyce and His Contemporaries (review)
  2. Joseph Heininger
  3. pp. 273-276
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0292
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  1. "Ulysses" Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's "Ulysses" (review)
  2. Morris Beja
  3. pp. 276-277
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0424
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  1. Joyce Cary's Creative Imagination, and: Joyce Cary Remembered (review)
  2. Brian Murray
  3. pp. 277-279
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0556
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  1. A Reader's Companion to the Novels and Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh: An Annotated Glossary of the Narratives, A Who's Who Among the Characters, A Gazetteer of the Principle Places, A Description of the Important Proper Names, and an Explanation of the Abbreviations Used in the Stories (review)
  2. Richard Wasson
  3. pp. 279-280
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0689
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  1. G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis: The Riddle of Joy (review)
  2. James E. Barcus
  3. pp. 280-281
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0822
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  1. Why Beckett (review)
  2. Philip H. Solomon
  3. p. 282
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0955
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  1. The Imperishable Empire: A Study of British Fiction on India (review)
  2. Ketu H. Katrak
  3. pp. 283-285
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0239
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  1. "Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction, and: Sherlock Holmes in London: A Photographic Record of Conan Doyle's Stories, and: On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes (review)
  2. Edward S. Lauterbach
  3. pp. 285-287
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0371
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Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 287-288
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0503
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  1. The Other Woman: Feminism and Femininity in the Work of Marguerite Duras (review)
  2. Carol J. Murphy
  3. pp. 288-289
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0635
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  1. Robert Musil, and: Robert Musil's "The Man without Qualities": A Critical Study (review)
  2. Gertrud B. Pickar
  3. pp. 290-291
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0768
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  1. Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination (review)
  2. Horst S. Daemmrich
  3. pp. 292-293
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0901
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  1. Erich Maria Remarque: A Thematic Analysis of His Novels (review)
  2. Clayton Koelb
  3. pp. 293-294
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1033
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  1. The Structure of "The Brothers Karamazov", and: Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation, and: Dostoevsky's Letters (review)
  2. Gary R. Jahn
  3. pp. 294-295
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0318
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Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 296
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0450
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  1. Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction (review)
  2. Carolyn Bliss
  3. pp. 296-297
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0582
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  1. The Novels of Anita Desai: A Study in Character and Conflict (review)
  2. Nancy L. Paxton
  3. pp. 298-299
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0715
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  1. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion (review)
  2. Charmazel Dudt
  3. pp. 299-300
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0848
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Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 300
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0981
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  1. Stories of Reading: Subjectivity and Literary Understanding, and: Poetics of Reading: Approaches to the Novel, and: Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression and the Interpretation of Narrative, and: Narrative Poetics: Innovations, Limits, Challenges, and: Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination (review)
  2. Robyn R. Warhol
  3. pp. 300-306
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0266
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  1. Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885-1925 (review)
  2. James F. Knapp
  3. pp. 307-308
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0398
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  1. Sheer Fiction, and: The Fiction of Relationship (review)
  2. Lois Parkinson Zamora
  3. pp. 307-310
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0529
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  1. I Am a Process with No Subject (review)
  2. Brian Murray
  3. pp. 310-311
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0662
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  1. Feminism and Science Fiction, and: Contemporary Women's Fiction: Narrative Practice and Feminist Theory (review)
  2. Andrea J. Krause
  3. pp. 311-313
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0795
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  1. Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society, and: Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classic American Science Fiction Short Story (review)
  2. Donald M. Hassler
  3. pp. 313-314
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0928
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Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 315
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0212
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  1. Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading (review)
  2. Ewart Skinner
  3. pp. 315-316
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0345
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  1. Orthodox Heresy: The Rise of "Magic" as Religion and Its Relation to Literature (review)
  2. Walter Kelly Hood
  3. p. 317
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0477
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Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 318
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0609
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Announcement

  1. The Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize
  3. pp. 146-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1519
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Contributors

  1. Contributors
  3. p. 148
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0688
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