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Contributors

  1. Contributors
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1172
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Articles

  1. The Problem of Pattern: Nabokov's Defense
  2. Brian Boyd
  3. pp. 575-604
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1208
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  1. Sister Carrie and Industrial Life: Objects and the New American Self
  2. Stanley Corkin
  3. pp. 605-619
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1244
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Announcements

  1. Announcements
  3. p. 620
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1537
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Article

  1. Autobiography as Fiction: The Example of Stop-time
  2. John Haegert
  3. pp. 621-638
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1281
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Notes and Discussion

  1. Art and Life in James's "The Middle Years"
  2. Christof Wegelin
  3. pp. 639-646
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1318
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  1. Floating Signifiers in John Barth's Sabbatical
  2. Gordon E. Slethaug
  3. pp. 647-656
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1121
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Book Reviews

The Americas

  1. In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America (review)
  2. Richard B. Hauck
  3. pp. 661-662
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1157
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  1. Stephen Crane, and: New Essays on "The Red Badge of Courage", and: Realism, Writing, Disfiguration on Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane (review)
  2. Thomas Kent
  3. pp. 662-665
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1193
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  1. "The Tools of My Trade": Annotated Books in Jack London's Library, and: Jack London: Adventures, Ideas, and Fiction (review)
  2. Sam S. Baskett
  3. pp. 665-667
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1229
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  1. Fancy's Craft: Art and Identity in the Early Works of Djuna Barnes, and: Henry Miller: Full of Life. A Memoir of America's Uninhibited Literary Genius (review)
  2. Michael J. Hoffman
  3. pp. 668-670
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1266
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  1. The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism, and: Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice (review)
  2. Clare Colquitt
  3. pp. 670-672
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1303
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  1. The Structure of Obscurity: Gertrude Stein, Language, and Cubism (review)
  2. Anita Helle
  3. pp. 672-673
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1340
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  1. Ernest Hemingway in Holland, 1925-1981: A Comparative Analysis of the Contemporary Dutch and American Critical Reception of his Work, and: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway (review)
  2. Raymond S. Nelson
  3. pp. 674-675
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1143
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  1. Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America (review)
  2. Joan L. Wilcox
  3. pp. 675-677
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1179
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  1. Heart in Conflict: Faulkner's Struggles with Vocation, and: Faulkner and/or Writing: On "Absalom, Absalom!", and: Figures of Division: William Faulkner's Major Novels, and: Faulkner and Women: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1985 (review)
  2. Stephen M. Ross
  3. pp. 677-680
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1215
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  1. Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, and: The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe (review)
  2. Leslie Field
  3. pp. 681-683
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1252
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  1. John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land (review)
  2. Joseph R. Millichap
  3. pp. 683-684
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1289
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  1. Lillian Smith: A Southerner Confronting the South: A Biography (review)
  2. Dennis W. Petrie
  3. pp. 684-685
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1326
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  1. From Exile to Redemption: The Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer (review)
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. 686-687
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1129
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  1. Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction, and: Mailer's America (review)
  2. J. Michael Lennon
  3. pp. 688-690
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1165
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  1. Gone in October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac, and: Beats & Company: A Portrait of a Literary Generation, and: The Adding Machine: Selected Essays, and: The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Study of the Fiction (review)
  2. Brooke K. Horvath
  3. pp. 690-695
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1201
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  1. Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction, and: God the Artist: American Novelists in a Post-Realist Age, and: Journey into the Past: The Historical and Mythical Imagination of Barth and Pynchon (review)
  2. Robert D. Newman
  3. pp. 696-699
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1237
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  1. Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s (review)
  2. Wendy L. Schissel
  3. pp. 699-700
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1274
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  1. Suspended Fictions: Reading Novels by Manuel Puig, and: Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa, and: Social Realism in the Argentine Narrative, and: Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance (review)
  2. Claudette Kemper Columbus
  3. pp. 701-705
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1311
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  1. Mario Vargas Llosa, and: Spanish American Writing Since 1941: A Critical Survey, and: Wilson Harris and the Modern Tradition: A New Architecture of the World (review)
  2. Tim Brennan
  3. pp. 705-708
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1348
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Other Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 708-711
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1151
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British and Irish

  1. The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below, and: Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel, and: The Novel in the Victorian Age: A Modern Introduction (review)
  2. Wayne Templeton
  3. pp. 711-714
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1187
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  1. Kipling and Orientalism, and: The Death of the German Cousin: Variations on a Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920, and: John Galsworthy's Life and Art, and: The Paradox of Gissing (review)
  2. Hans-Peter Breuer
  3. pp. 714-718
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1223
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  1. Victorian Bloomsbury: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group, and: The Victorian Heritage of Virginia Woolf: The External World in her Novels (review)
  2. Daniel R. Schwarz
  3. pp. 718-721
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1260
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  1. Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Four Dubliners, and: The Mechanic Muse (review)
  2. Marvin Magalaner
  3. pp. 721-723
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1297
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  1. Assessing the 1984 "Ulysses", and: An Anglo-Irish Dialect Glossary for Joyce's Works, and: Joyce's Anatomy of Culture, and: James Joyce: The Centennial Symposium (review)
  2. K. E. Marre
  3. pp. 723-726
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1334
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  1. "Finnegans Wake": A Plot Summary, and: Joyce's Book of the Dark: "Finnegans Wake" (review)
  2. Morris Beja
  3. pp. 726-729
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1137
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  1. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall (review)
  2. Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. pp. 729-730
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1173
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  1. Chesterton, A Seer of Science (review)
  2. Richard Voorhees
  3. pp. 730-731
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1209
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  1. The British Novel Since the Thirties: An Introduction (review)
  2. Lisa M. Schwerdt
  3. pp. 731-733
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1245
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  1. Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910-1927, and: Waugh on Women (review)
  2. A. A. DeVitis
  3. pp. 733-734
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1282
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  1. William Golding: A Structural Reading of His Fiction (review)
  2. Harold H. Watts
  3. pp. 735-736
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1319
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  1. Orwell x 8, and: The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom (review)
  2. Richard Voorhees
  3. pp. 736-738
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1122
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  1. The Pleasure of Miss Pym (review)
  2. Laura L. Doan
  3. pp. 738-739
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1158
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  1. The Life and Work of Barbara Pym, and: Something to Love: Barbara Pym's Novels (review)
  2. Jill Rubenstein
  3. pp. 739-741
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1194
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Other Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 742-744
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1230
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Continental

  1. Fiction in the Historical Present: French Writers and the Thirties, and: Three Decades of the French New Novel, and: Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body (review)
  2. Laurence M. Porter
  3. pp. 744-746
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1267
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  1. The Uses of Literature, and: Beautiful Fables: Self-consciousness in Italian Narrative From Manzoni to Calvino (review)
  2. Joann Cannon
  3. pp. 747-749
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1304
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  1. Moral Apostasy in Russian Literature (review)
  2. Andrew R. Durkin
  3. pp. 749-750
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1341
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  1. The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma, and: The German Historical Novel in Exile after 1933: Calliope Contra Clio (review)
  2. Marilyn Sibley Fries
  3. pp. 750-753
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1144
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  1. After the Fires: Recent Writing in the Germanies, Austria, and Switzerland (review)
  2. Myra N. Love
  3. pp. 754-755
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1180
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  1. The Power of Aries: Myth and Reality in Karen Blixen's Life (review)
  2. Mary Beth Pringle
  3. pp. 755-756
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1216
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Other Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1253
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Miscellaneous

  1. Fictions of Nuclear Disaster (review)
  2. Joe Dewey
  3. pp. 758-759
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1290
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  1. Resisting Novels, Ideology and Fiction (review)
  2. Tim Brennan
  3. pp. 759-761
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1327
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  1. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 (review)
  2. Clare Colquitt
  3. pp. 761-762
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1130
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  1. Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature (review)
  2. Nicholas O. Warner
  3. pp. 762-763
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1166
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  1. Patrick White's Fiction: The Paradox of Fortunate Failure (review)
  2. Manly Johnson
  3. pp. 764-765
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1202
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  1. After the Raj: British Novels of India Since 1947, and: Major Indian Novels: An Evaluation (review)
  2. Harveen Sachdeva Mann
  3. pp. 765-768
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1238
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  1. Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women, and: Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women, and: Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy, and: Forbidden Fruit: On the Relationship between Women and Knowledge in Doris Lessing, Selma Lagerlöf, Kate Chopin, and Margaret Atwood (review)
  2. Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. pp. 768-770
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1275
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Other Books Received

  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 771-772
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1312
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Modern Fiction Studies Volume 33

  1. Modern Fiction Studies Volume 33: 1987
  3. pp. 773-776
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1528
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