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  1. A Symbolic Center in a Conceptual Country: A Gassian Rubric for The Sound and the Fury
  2. Paul M. Hedeen
  3. pp. 623-643
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1217
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  1. Edifying the Reader: Ionesco's "The Colonel's Photograph"
  2. Gemma M. Galli
  3. pp. 645-657
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1254
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  1. The Sadly Rejoycing Slave: Beckett, Joyce, and Destructive Parody
  2. Michael Valdez Moses
  3. pp. 659-674
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1291
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  1. Ends and Loose Ends: The Triptych Conclusion of Light in August
  2. Ronald Wesley Hoag
  3. pp. 675-690
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1328
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  1. Authority/Author-ity: Representation and Fictionality in Huckleberry Finn
  2. Joseph Sawicki
  3. pp. 691-702
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1131
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  1. Being in the Midst: Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
  2. Madeleine Sorapure
  3. pp. 702-710
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1167
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  1. Lawrence's Mr. Noon
  2. Jeffrey Meyers
  3. pp. 710-715
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1203
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  1. Correction
  2. William T. Stafford
  3. p. 721
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1239
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  1. Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction, and: Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story (review)
  2. William C. Hamlin
  3. pp. 721-723
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1276
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  1. The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James, and: Henry James: Fiction as History (review)
  2. J. A. Ward
  3. pp. 723-725
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1313
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  1. Marietta Holley: Life with "Josiah Allen's Wife" (review)
  2. Sharon Spencer
  3. pp. 725-726
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1116
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  1. The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr., and: Pearl Buck: A Woman in Conflict, and: Saroyan: A Biography (review)
  2. Dennis W. Petrie
  3. pp. 727-730
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1152
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  1. Dust Tracks on a Road, and: Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation, and: Down Home and Uptown: The Representation of Black Speech in American Fiction, and: Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals, and: Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (review)
  2. Keith Byerman
  3. pp. 730-735
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1188
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  1. Hemingway (review)
  2. Valerie Meyers
  3. pp. 735-736
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1224
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  1. Vision in Spring, and: The Origins of Faulkner's Art, and: Genius of Place: William Faulkner's Triumphant Beginnings, and: Faulkner: International Perspectives, and: Faulkner Studies in Japan (review)
  2. Stephen M. Ross
  3. pp. 737-739
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1261
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  1. The Two Worlds of William March, and: A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life, and: Selected Notebooks 1960-1967, and: Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian, and: Saul Bellow's Moral Vision. A Critical Study of the Jewish Experience (review)
  2. Jeanne Braham
  3. pp. 740-745
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1298
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  1. John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America, and: Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase, and: After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism, and: Edith Wharton's New York Quartet (review)
  2. Thomas A. Gullason
  3. pp. 745-748
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1335
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  1. Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor, and: Walker Percy and the Old Modern Age: Reflections on Language and the Telling of Stories, and: Flannery O'Connor's Library: Resources of Being (review)
  2. W. J. Stuckey
  3. pp. 749-751
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1138
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  1. The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, and: Edmund Wilson's America (review)
  2. Richard Hauer Costa
  3. pp. 751-753
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1174
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  1. American Silences: The Realism of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Edward Hopper (review)
  2. Victor A. Kramer
  3. pp. 753-754
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1210
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  1. Los Angeles in Fiction: A Collection of Original Essays (review)
  2. William J. Palmer
  3. pp. 755-757
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1247
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  1. The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov, and: Vladimir Nabokov: The Velvet Butterfly, and: Vladimir Nabokov: Life, Work, and Criticism (review)
  2. J. P. Shute
  3. pp. 757-758
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1284
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  1. Fictional Space in the Modernist and Postmodernist American Novel, and: Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, and: The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation, and: IN FORM: Digressions on the Act of Fiction (review)
  2. Alan Nadel
  3. pp. 759-763
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1321
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  1. Voicelust: Eight Contemporary Fiction Writers on Style, and: Conversations with American Writers, and: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction (review)
  2. B.H.
  3. pp. 763-766
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1124
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  1. Passionate Virtuosity: The Fiction of John Barth, and: Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self and Postmodern American Fiction (review)
  2. Marianne Dekoven
  3. pp. 766-768
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1160
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  1. Saint with a Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye, and: Dashiell Hammett: A Life, and: Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett (review)
  2. Peter Wolfe
  3. pp. 769-773
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1196
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  1. Thurber's Anatomy of Confusion (review)
  2. Martin Light
  3. pp. 773-775
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1232
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  1. Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative, and: The Craft of an Absolute Winner: Characterization and Narratology in the Novels of Machado de Assis, and: Isla a su vuelo fugitiva: ensayos críticos sobre literatura hispanoamericana (review)
  2. Paul B. Dixon
  3. pp. 775-778
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1269
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  1. "Ulysses": A Critical and Synoptic Edition (review)
  2. Marvin Magalaner
  3. pp. 782-784
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1343
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  1. Joyce's Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation, and: An Anatomy of "Penelope", and: Joyce the Creator, and: James Joyce (review)
  2. Bernard Benstock
  3. pp. 784-789
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1146
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  1. Stephen and Bloom at Life's Feast: Alimentary Symbolism and the Creative Process in James Joyce's "Ulysses", and: Joyce's Catholic Comedy of Language, and: Children's Lore in "Finnegans Wake" (review)
  2. Richard M. Kain
  3. pp. 789-793
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1182
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  1. Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties, and: Modernism and Authority: Strategies of Legitimation in Flaubert and Conrad (review)
  2. Daniel W. Ross
  3. pp. 793-795
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1218
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  1. Paradox and Polarity in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad, and: "I'd Have My Life Unbe": Thomas Hardy's Self-Destructive Characters (review)
  2. Roger K. Anderson
  3. pp. 795-797
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1255
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  1. The English Short Story, 1880-1945: A Critical History (review)
  2. Mary Rohrberger
  3. pp. 802-804
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1329
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  1. H. G. Wells (review)
  2. John R. Reed
  3. pp. 805-806
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1168
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  1. C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (review)
  2. Brian Murray
  3. pp. 806-807
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1204
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  1. Lawrence in Oaxaca: A Quest for the Novelist in Mexico (review)
  2. Daniel R. Schwarz
  3. pp. 808-810
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1240
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  1. George Orwell and the Problem of Authentic Existence, and: The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology (review)
  2. Richard J. Voorhees
  3. pp. 810-812
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1277
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  1. Saints, Sinners and Comedians: The Novels of Graham Greene (review)
  2. A. A. Devitis
  3. pp. 812-813
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1314
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  1. Samuel Beckett's Novel "Watt" (review)
  2. Frederik N. Smith
  3. pp. 813-814
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1117
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  1. Muriel Spark: An Odd Capacity for Vision, and: Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City, and: Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West (review)
  2. Margaret Moan Rowe
  3. pp. 815-816
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1153
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  1. Ten Modern Scottish Novels, and: A Blasphemer and Reformer: A Study of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (review)
  2. Alan T. Mckenzie
  3. pp. 816-819
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1189
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  1. The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka, and: Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life, and: A Proliferation of Prophets: Essays in Modern German Literature (review)
  2. Clayton Koelb
  3. pp. 822-823
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1262
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  1. Dostoevsky and the Healing Art: An Essay in Literary and Medical History, and: Tryant and Victim in Dostoevsky, and: Dostoëvski et l'autre (review)
  2. Laurence M. Porter
  3. pp. 824-826
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1299
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  1. Robert Musil and the Culture of Vienna (review)
  2. Gertrud B. Pickar
  3. pp. 826-828
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1336
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  1. Exile from the Kingdom: A Political Rereading of Albert Camus, and: Sartre: Literature and Theory, and: Reflections on Malraux: Cultural Founding in Modernity (review)
  2. Ben Stoltzfus
  3. pp. 829-832
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1139
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  1. Witnessing André Malraux: Visions and Re-Visions, and: Intimate Memoirs, Including Marie-Jo's Book (review)
  2. Verena Andermatt Conley
  3. pp. 832-835
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1175
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  1. Italian Literary Icons (review)
  2. Joann Cannon
  3. pp. 835-836
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1211
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  1. Money and Fiction: Literary Realism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, and: Disease and the Novel, 1880-1960 (review)
  2. Philip Stevick
  3. pp. 838-840
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1285
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  1. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative, and: Time and Narrative (review)
  2. Jonathan Arac
  3. pp. 840-841
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1322
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  1. Criticism and Critical Theory, and: Fictional Narrative and Truth: An Epistemic Analysis (review)
  2. Donald Morton
  3. pp. 842-844
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1125
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  1. The Poetics of Protest: Literary Form and Political Implication in the Victim-of-Society Novel (review)
  2. Murray Sperber
  3. pp. 844-845
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1161
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  1. The Realist Fantasy: Fantasy and Reality since "Clarissa", and: Motives for Fiction (review)
  2. William B. Bache
  3. pp. 846-847
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1197
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  1. The Scope of the Fantastic —Theory, Technique, Major Authors: Selected Essays from the First International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, and: Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, and: In Defense of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945, and: The Comedy of the Fantastic: Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel, and: The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction (review)
  2. Lionel Basney
  3. pp. 848-852
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1233
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  1. The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, and: The Transcendent Adventure: Studies of Religion in Science Fiction/Fantasy, and: Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (review)
  2. Don D. Elgin
  3. pp. 852-855
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1270
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  1. "A White Heron" and the Question of Minor Literature, and: Popular Fiction and Social Change, and: Society in the Novel, and: The Role of Place in Literature (review)
  2. J. Michael Lennon
  3. pp. 855-858
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1307
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  1. Different Drummers: A Study of Cultural Alternatives in Fiction, and: Afro-American and East German Fiction: A Comparative Study of Alienation, Identity, and the Development of Self (review)
  2. Raymund A. Paredes
  3. pp. 858-860
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1344
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  1. Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction, and: The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations (review)
  2. Sanford Goldstein
  3. pp. 861-863
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1147
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  1. At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S. J. Agnon (review)
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. 863-864
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1183
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  1. (Alternative) Literary Publishing: Five Modern Histories (review)
  2. Joseph R. Millichap
  3. pp. 864-865
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1219
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  1. Diary Fiction: Writing as Action, and: Writing beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers, and: Unbodied Hope: Narcissism and the Modern Novel (review)
  2. Laura L. Doan
  3. pp. 866-868
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1256
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  1. Modern Fiction Studies Volume 31: 1985
  3. pp. 871-873
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1407
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 779-781
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1306
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  1. Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers, and: Joseph Conrad's Bible, and: The Deceptive Text: An Introduction to Covert Plots (review)
  2. Roderick Davis
  3. pp. 798-802
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1292
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  1. H. G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography (review)
  2. John Huntington
  3. pp. 804-805
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1132
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 820-821
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1225
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 836-837
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1248
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 869-870
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1293
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  1. Contributors
  3. p. 876
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1330
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