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Creative

  1. A Brief History of Fiction
  2. Keith Leonard
  3. p. 1
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  1. Snake Alley
  2. Paisley Rekdal
  3. pp. 2-3
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  1. The Boater
  2. Victoria Chang
  3. p. 4
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  1. Barometric
  2. Sarah Johnson
  3. p. 5
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  1. The Man Who Paints Mountains and Helicopters
  2. Jamaal May
  3. pp. 6-7
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  1. A Dog’s Nose
  2. Robert Cording
  3. p. 8
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  1. The Dancing Bear
  2. Maxim Loskutoff
  3. pp. 9-17
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  1. Gutter
  2. Christa Romanosky
  3. p. 18
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  1. Casualties
  2. Margot Schilpp
  3. pp. 19-20
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  1. English Sauce
  2. Nicomedes Suárez Araúz
  3. p. 21
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  1. Reason
  2. Nicomedes Suárez Araúz
  3. p. 22
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  1. Threat from Above
  2. Austen Rosenfeld
  3. p. 23
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  1. Pop Song
  2. W. Todd Kaneko
  3. p. 24
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  1. But I Can Only Do It Once
  2. Barrett Bowlin
  3. pp. 25-41
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  1. Happy and Sad
  2. Natasha Sajé
  3. p. 42
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  1. My Father
  2. Susanna Childress
  3. p. 43
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  1. the minnesota review loves . . . Favorite things of the creative writing editors
  2. Andy Hobin, Elias Simpson
  3. pp. 44-46
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  1. Praying to Fra Lippi’s Mistress
  2. Dzvinia Orlowsky
  3. pp. 47-48
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  1. Used Boat
  2. Dzvinia Orlowsky
  3. pp. 49-50
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  1. The night you bury your father you hope he will visit your dreams
  2. B. T. Shaw
  3. pp. 51-52
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Revaluation

  1. The Political Fantastic: Žižek, Fantasy, and a New Autonomous Aesthetics
  2. Jason Berger
  3. pp. 53-77
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Surveying he Field

  1. Lyric and Its Discontents
  2. Walt Hunter
  3. pp. 78-90
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  1. The New Modernist Studies: A Response
  2. Martin Puchner
  3. pp. 91-96
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  1. Introduction: China and the Humanities Today
  2. Janell Watson
  3. pp. 97-100
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Special Focus: China and Humanities Today

  1. Translating Modernity and Reconstructing World Literature
  2. Wang Ning
  3. pp. 101-112
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  1. “Dinner Party of Discourse Owners”: China’s Intellectual Scene Today
  2. Liu Kang
  3. pp. 113-136
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  1. Reading between Images and Worlds: An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell
  2. Sheng Anfeng
  3. pp. 137-156
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  1. Books Received
  2. pp. 157-158
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 159-163
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