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Articles

  1. Veldtanschauung: Doris Lessing's Savage Africa
  2. Eve Bertelsen
  3. pp. 647-658
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0829
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  1. A Story in Love's Default: André Brink's States of Emergency
  2. Madeleine Sorapure
  3. pp. 659-675
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0962
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  1. The "Octopus" in McTeague: Frank Norris and Professionalism
  2. David Heddendorf
  3. pp. 677-688
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0246
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  1. Graham Greene and the Hounds of Brighton Rock
  2. Elliott Malamet
  3. pp. 689-703
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0378
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Notes and Discussion

  1. Reinscribing a Dead Author in If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
  2. Melissa Watts
  3. pp. 705-716
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0510
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  1. Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
  2. William M. Burke
  3. pp. 716-724
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0642
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Book Reviews

  1. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, and: California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times (review)
  2. Jeane Harris
  3. pp. 729-731
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0775
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  1. After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather (review)
  2. Loretta Wasserman
  3. pp. 731-732
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0908
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  1. Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition, and: American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner (review)
  2. Barbara Eckstein
  3. pp. 733-735
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1040
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  1. Jean Toomer's Years With Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist, 1923-1936 (review)
  2. Isaac Johnson
  3. pp. 735-736
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0325
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  1. 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)
  2. Edna L. Steeves
  3. pp. 737-738
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0457
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  1. 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)
  2. Albert J. DeFazio III
  3. pp. 739-743
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0589
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  1. 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)
  2. Arthur F. Kinney
  3. pp. 743-752
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0722
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  1. Conversations with Bernard Malamud (review)
  2. Daniel Walden
  3. pp. 752-753
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0855
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  1. Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, and: Serious Daring from Within: Female Narrative Strategies in Eudora Welty's Novels, and: Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered (review)
  2. Victor A. Kramer
  3. pp. 754-756
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0988
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  1. The Muses of John Barth: Tradition and Metafiction from Lost in the Funhouse to Tidewater Tales (review)
  2. John Z. Guzlowski
  3. pp. 756-757
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0273
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  1. Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, and: Daughters of Time: Creating Woman's Voice in Southern Story (review)
  2. Dianne Chambers
  3. pp. 757-759
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0405
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  1. The Modern American Urban Novel: Nature as "Interior Structure" (review)
  2. Blanche H. Gelfant
  3. p. 760
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0536
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  1. New Readings of the American Novel: Narrative Theory and its Application (review)
  2. Janet Gabler-Hover
  3. pp. 761-762
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0669
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  1. 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)
  2. Alan Nadel
  3. pp. 763-766
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0802
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  1. The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel (review)
  2. Leslie Field
  3. pp. 766-767
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0935
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  1. The Achievement of American Sport Literature: A Critical Appraisal (review)
  2. Ross Dawson
  3. pp. 768-769
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0219
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  1. 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)
  2. Arnold Davidson
  3. pp. 769-772
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0352
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  1. Confessional Fictions: A Portrait of the Artist in the Canadian Novel (review)
  2. J. David Stevens
  3. pp. 772-773
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0484
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  1. Richard Wright: Books and Writers (review)
  2. John M. Reilly
  3. pp. 773-774
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0616
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  1. The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Vol. I: 1863-1880 (review)
  2. John Halperin
  3. pp. 775-777
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0749
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  1. 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)
  2. Mark Bourdeau
  3. pp. 778-781
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0882
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  1. 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)
  2. Lydia Blanchard
  3. pp. 781-785
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1015
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  1. A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War, and: English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918-39 (review)
  2. Joseph Heininger
  3. pp. 786-789
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0300
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  1. The English Novel at Mid-Century: From the Leaning Tower (review)
  2. David Leon Higdon
  3. pp. 789-790
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0432
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  1. 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)
  2. Brian Murray
  3. pp. 790-792
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0564
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  1. Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge (review)
  2. David Leon Higdon
  3. pp. 793-794
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0697
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  1. Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of The Raj Quartet (review)
  2. Harveen Sachdeva Mann
  3. pp. 794-796
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0830
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  1. 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)
  2. Philip O'Leary
  3. pp. 796-799
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0963
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  1. The Spanish Civil War in Literature (review)
  2. Patricia Hart
  3. pp. 800-801
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0247
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  1. Yuri Trifonov's The Moscow Cycle: A Critical Study (review)
  2. Irina H. Corten
  3. pp. 801-802
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0379
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  1. Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modemist Fiction (review)
  2. Mary Burgan
  3. pp. 802-803
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0511
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  1. Katherine Mansfield: A Study of the Short Fiction (review)
  2. Cherry Hankin
  3. pp. 804-805
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0643
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  1. Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: Existential Themes in His Writings (review)
  2. Nada Elia
  3. pp. 805-807
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0776
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  1. The Culture of Redemption, and: After Theory: Postmodernism/Postmarxism (review)
  2. James F. Knapp
  3. pp. 808-809
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0909
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  1. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern, and: Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change, and: Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure (review)
  2. Marianne Dekoven
  3. pp. 810-813
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1041
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  1. An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction, and: Murder Off The Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters (review)
  2. John M. Reilly
  3. pp. 813-815
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0326
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  1. 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)
  2. Claire Kahane
  3. pp. 816-818
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0458
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  1. Versions of Pygmalion (review)
  2. Robert D. Newman
  3. pp. 818-819
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0590
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  1. Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex, and: Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James: The Impossible Romance (review)
  2. Steven G. Kellman
  3. pp. 819-821
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0723
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  1. Flights from Realism: Themes and Strategies in Postmodernist British and American Fiction, and: Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction, Mimesis, and the Reader (review)
  2. Mark Osteen
  3. pp. 822-823
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0856
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  1. In Quest Of The Other Person: Fiction As Biography, and: Exile And The Writer: Exoteric And Estoeric Experiences, A Jungian Approach (review)
  2. Philip Stevick
  3. pp. 824-825
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0989
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  1. The Spirit of Biography, and: Novelists in Their Youth (review)
  2. Michael Wutz
  3. pp. 826-827
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0248
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  1. Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction, and: Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature (review)
  2. Thomas Myers
  3. pp. 828-830
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0380
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Index

  1. Modern Fiction Studies Volume 37: 1991
  3. pp. 831-832
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1406
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Contributors

  1. Contributors
  3. p. 646
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0696
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