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Veldtanschauung: Doris Lessing's Savage Africa

Eve Bertelsen
pp. 647-658
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0829
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A Story in Love's Default: André Brink's States of Emergency

Madeleine Sorapure
pp. 659-675
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0962
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The "Octopus" in McTeague: Frank Norris and Professionalism

David Heddendorf
pp. 677-688
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0246
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Graham Greene and the Hounds of Brighton Rock

Elliott Malamet
pp. 689-703
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0378
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Reinscribing a Dead Author in If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Melissa Watts
pp. 705-716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0510
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Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

William M. Burke
pp. 716-724
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0642
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Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, and: California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times (review)

Jeane Harris
pp. 729-731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0775
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After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather (review)

Loretta Wasserman
pp. 731-732
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0908
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Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition, and: American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner (review)

Barbara Eckstein
pp. 733-735
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1040
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Jean Toomer's Years With Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist, 1923-1936 (review)

Isaac Johnson
pp. 735-736
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0325
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Down from the Mountain Top: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989, and: Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination, and: Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels (review)

Edna L. Steeves
pp. 737-738
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0457
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Hemingway: Essays of Reassessment, and: New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, and: Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny, and: Less Than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris, and: Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa as Evolutionary Narrative: Helix and Scimitar (review)

Albert J. DeFazio III
pp. 739-743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0589
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Vision and Revisions: Essays on Faulkner, and: The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August, and: Sutpen's Design: Interpreting Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and: William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Fiction, and: Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting (review)

Arthur F. Kinney
pp. 743-752
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0722
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Conversations with Bernard Malamud (review)

Daniel Walden
pp. 752-753
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0855
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Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, and: Serious Daring from Within: Female Narrative Strategies in Eudora Welty's Novels, and: Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered (review)

Victor A. Kramer
pp. 754-756
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0988
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The Muses of John Barth: Tradition and Metafiction from Lost in the Funhouse to Tidewater Tales (review)

John Z. Guzlowski
pp. 756-757
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0273
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Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, and: Daughters of Time: Creating Woman's Voice in Southern Story (review)

Dianne Chambers
pp. 757-759
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0405
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The Modern American Urban Novel: Nature as "Interior Structure" (review)

Blanche H. Gelfant
p. 760
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0536
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New Readings of the American Novel: Narrative Theory and its Application (review)

Janet Gabler-Hover
pp. 761-762
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0669
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Likely Stories: Essays on Political Philosophy and Contemporary American Literature, and: The Character of Truth: Historical Figures in Contemporary Fiction, and: Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction (review)

Alan Nadel
pp. 763-766
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0802
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel (review)

Leslie Field
pp. 766-767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0935
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The Achievement of American Sport Literature: A Critical Appraisal (review)

Ross Dawson
pp. 768-769
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0219
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Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, and: The Dominion of Women: The Personal and the Political in Canadian Women's Literature, and: Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec (review)

Arnold Davidson
pp. 769-772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0352
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Confessional Fictions: A Portrait of the Artist in the Canadian Novel (review)

J. David Stevens
pp. 772-773
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0484
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Richard Wright: Books and Writers (review)

John M. Reilly
pp. 773-774
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0616
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The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Vol. I: 1863-1880 (review)

John Halperin
pp. 775-777
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0749
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Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Skepticism, and: The French Face of Joseph Conrad, and: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes: Beginnings, Revisions, Final Forms: Five Essays (review)

Mark Bourdeau
pp. 778-781
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0882
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Rethinking Lawrence, and: Metaphor and Meaning in D. H. Lawrence's Later Novels, and: The Language of D. H. Lawrence, and: Pictures and Fictions: Visual Modernism and the Pre-War Novels of D. H. Lawrence, and: D. H. Lawrence and the Trembling Balance (review)

Lydia Blanchard
pp. 781-785
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1015
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A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War, and: English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918-39 (review)

Joseph Heininger
pp. 786-789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0300
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The English Novel at Mid-Century: From the Leaning Tower (review)

David Leon Higdon
pp. 789-790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0432
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William Golding Revisited: A Collection of Original Essays, and: Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, and: Time and Anthony Powell: A Critical Study (review)

Brian Murray
pp. 790-792
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0564
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Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge (review)

David Leon Higdon
pp. 793-794
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0697
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Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of The Raj Quartet (review)

Harveen Sachdeva Mann
pp. 794-796
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0830
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Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer, and: Contemporary Irish Novelists, and: Brian Moore: A Critical Study, and: Frank O'Connor at Work (review)

Philip O'Leary
pp. 796-799
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0963
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The Spanish Civil War in Literature (review)

Patricia Hart
pp. 800-801
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0247
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Yuri Trifonov's The Moscow Cycle: A Critical Study (review)

Irina H. Corten
pp. 801-802
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0379
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Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modemist Fiction (review)

Mary Burgan
pp. 802-803
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0511
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Katherine Mansfield: A Study of the Short Fiction (review)

Cherry Hankin
pp. 804-805
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0643
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Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: Existential Themes in His Writings (review)

Nada Elia
pp. 805-807
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0776
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The Culture of Redemption, and: After Theory: Postmodernism/Postmarxism (review)

James F. Knapp
pp. 808-809
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0909
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Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern, and: Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change, and: Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure (review)

Marianne Dekoven
pp. 810-813
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1041
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction, and: Murder Off The Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters (review)

John M. Reilly
pp. 813-815
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0326
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Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing, and: Telling Tales: The Hysteric's Seduction in Fiction and Theory (review)

Claire Kahane
pp. 816-818
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0458
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Versions of Pygmalion (review)

Robert D. Newman
pp. 818-819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0590
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Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex, and: Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James: The Impossible Romance (review)

Steven G. Kellman
pp. 819-821
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0723
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Flights from Realism: Themes and Strategies in Postmodernist British and American Fiction, and: Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction, Mimesis, and the Reader (review)

Mark Osteen
pp. 822-823
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0856
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In Quest Of The Other Person: Fiction As Biography, and: Exile And The Writer: Exoteric And Estoeric Experiences, A Jungian Approach (review)

Philip Stevick
pp. 824-825
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0989
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The Spirit of Biography, and: Novelists in Their Youth (review)

Michael Wutz
pp. 826-827
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0248
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Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction, and: Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature (review)

Thomas Myers
pp. 828-830
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0380
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Modern Fiction Studies Volume 37: 1991

pp. 831-832
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1406
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Contributors

p. 646
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0696
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