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The Gnomonics of Dubliners

Bernard Benstock
pp. 519-539
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0627
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The Grotesque Rose: Medieval Romance and The Great Gatsby

Jerome Mandel
pp. 541-558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0760
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Italic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in Invisible Cities

Laurence A. Breiner
pp. 559-573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0893
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Stingo's Complaint: Styron and the Politics of Self-Parody

Ralph Tutt
pp. 575-586
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1026
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The Two Narrators and Happy Ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four

Richard K. Sanderson
pp. 587-595
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0311
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E. M. Forster's A Passage to India: What Really Happened in the Caves

Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran
pp. 596-604
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0443
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Correspondence

Charlotte Spivack, Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
p. 605
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0575
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Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men, and: The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War, and: From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America, and: Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels, and: Gender and the Writer's Imagination: From Cooper to Wharton, and: American Historical Romance (review)

Gary Scharnhorst
pp. 611-616
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0708
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Henry James and the Evolution of Consciousness: A Study of "The Ambassadors", and: Searching for the Figure in the Carpet in the Tales of Henry James: Reflections of an Ordinary Reader, and: Henry James: Selected Letters (review)

Rosalie Hewitt
pp. 617-619
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0841
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Sherwood Anderson (review)

David Stouck
pp. 619-620
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0974
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Hemingway's Craft of Omission: Four Manuscript Examples, and: The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him (review)

W.J. Stuckey
pp. 621-622
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0259
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William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist: A Biography, and: William Faulkner: Letters and Fictions, and: Reading Faulknerian Tragedy (review)

Arthur F. Kinney
pp. 622-628
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0391
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Thomas Wolfe and His Editors, and: A Thomas Wolfe Companion (review)

John S. Phillipson
pp. 628-630
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0522
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The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate, and: T. S. Stribling: Pioneer Realist in Modern Southern Literature, and: Welty: A Life in Literature, and: Southerners and Europeans: Essays in a Time of Disorder (review)

Victor A. Kramer
pp. 631-633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0655
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Ishmael Reed and the New Black Aesthetic Critics, and: The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston, and: New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Biracial and Bicultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison, and: New Essays on Invisible Man, and: Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (review)

Keith Byerman
pp. 634-638
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0788
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Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism, and: The Fiction of Walker Percy, and: Conversations with Peter Taylor (review)

Joseph R. Millichap
pp. 638-641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0921
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Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations, and: Truman Capote: Conversations, and: With All My Might, and: William Styron, and: The Southern Vision of Andrew Lytle (review)

Margaret Jones Bolsterli
pp. 642-643
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0205
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Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford (review)

Joseph J. Firebaugh
p. 644
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Reading Philip Roth, and: Shadows Within: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers (review)

Leslie Field
pp. 645-646
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0470
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Leon Edel and Literary Art (review)

William H. Epstein
pp. 646-647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0602
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Conversations with John Cheever (review)

Lynne M. Waldeland
pp. 648-649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0735
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Contemporary American Fiction, and: Facing Texts: Encounters between Contemporary Writers and Critics, and: Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, and: Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (review)

Brooke K. Horvath
pp. 649-654
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0868
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The Light of Imagination: Mavis Gallant's Fiction (review)

Karen Dwyer
pp. 654-655
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1001
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All the Polarities: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Canadian Novels in French and English (review)

Arnold E. Davidson
pp. 655-656
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0286
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The Web of Tradition: Uses of Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's Fiction (review)

Harveen Sachdeva Mann
pp. 656-658
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0418
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Treading the Ebony Path: Ideology and Violence in Contemporary Afro-Colombian Prose Fiction, and: García Márquez: Writer of Colombia (review)

Pamela Finnegan
pp. 658-660
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0549
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Middle Grounds: Studies in Contemporary American Fiction, and: In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and: The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon, and: At the Field's End: Interviews with 20 Pacific Northwest Writers (review)

Steven Weisenburger
pp. 660-664
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0682
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Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to "Gravity's Rainbow", and: The Style of Connectedness: "Gravity's Rainbow" and Thomas Pynchon (review)

Joseph W. Slade
pp. 665-666
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0815
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Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America: High Noon to Midnight (review)

Larry D. Harred
pp. 667-668
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0948
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The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Volume 6: 1920-1925, and: The Unknown Thomas Hardy: Lesser-Known Aspects of Hardy's Life and Career (review)

John Halperin
pp. 672-674
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0364
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Thomas Hardy: The "Dream-Country" of His Fiction, and: Hardy's Influence on the Modern Novel (review)

W. Eugene Davis
pp. 675-676
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0496
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years (review)

Hans-Peter Breuer
pp. 677-678
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0628
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Culture and Irony: Studies in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels (review)

David Leon Higdon
pp. 679-680
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0761
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The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies, and: Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (review)

Molly Hite
pp. 680-682
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0894
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Regions of the Imagination: The Development of British Rural Fiction (review)

Robin Inboden
pp. 682-683
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1027
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Vico and Joyce, and: Joyce's Uncertainty Principle, and: James Joyce (review)

Cheryl Herr
pp. 684-687
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0312
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Reading Joyce's "Ulysses", and: "A Portrait of the Artist" in Different Perspective (review)

Monika Fludernik
pp. 687-689
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0444
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Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (review)

Pat Carr
pp. 690-691
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0576
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The Novel as Family Romance: Language, Gender and Authority from Fielding to Joyce (review)

Mary Power
p. 691
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0709
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Virginia Woolf for Beginners, and: To the Lighthouse: The Marriage of Life and Art, and: Virginia Woolf: Feminist Destinations (review)

Jane Elizabeth Fisher
pp. 692-695
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0842
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Pillar of Flame: The Mythological Foundations of D. H. Lawrence's Sexual Philosophy, and: Domestic Disharmony and Industrialization in D. H. Lawrence's Early Fiction, and: Lawrence and Nietzsche: A Study in Influence, and: Memoir of Maurice Magnus (review)

Jeffrey Meyers
pp. 695-699
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0975
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British Writers of the Thirties (review)

Lisa M. Schwerdt
pp. 700-701
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0260
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C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement (review)

Brian Murray
pp. 701-702
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0392
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The Short Narratives of E. M. Forster, and: George Orwell (review)

Richard J. Voorhees
pp. 702-704
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0523
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Graham Greene's Childless Fathers (review)

A. A. DeVitis
pp. 704-705
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0656
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Aldous Huxley and Film (review)

Jerome Meckier
pp. 705-707
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0789
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Rereading Doris Lessing: Narrative Patterns of Doubling and Repetition, and: The Theme of Enclosure in Selected Works of Doris Lessing (review)

Margaret Moan Rowe
p. 708
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0922
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Doris Lessing: The Alchemy of Survival (review)

Betsy Draine
pp. 709-710
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0206
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Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (review)

Bruce A. Beatie, Phyllis W. Powell
pp. 712-713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0471
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Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks, and: Georg Lukács and Thomas Mann (review)

Kurt Fickert
pp. 714-716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0603
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Kafka's Prussian Advocate: A Study of the Influence of Heinrich von Kleist on Franz Kafka (review)

Clayton Koelb
pp. 716-717
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0736
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Novel Configurations: A Study of French Fiction (review)

Philip H. Solomon
pp. 717-718
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0869
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Paris: A Literary Companion (review)

Kari Weil
pp. 718-719
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1002
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Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company, and: Samuel Beckett's New Worlds: Style in Metafiction (review)

Frederik N. Smith
pp. 719-721
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0287
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Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett (review)

S. E. Gontarski
pp. 722-723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0419
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Six Memos for the Next Milllenium, and: Alienation in Giuseppe Berto's Novels (review)

Anthony J. Tamburri
pp. 723-726
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0550
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Psychology, Religion, and Ethics in Galdós' Novels: The Quest for Authenticity (review)

Theodore Alan Sackett
pp. 726-727
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0683
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The Return of the Reader: Reader-response Criticism, and: Words About Words About Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text, and: The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850 (review)

William E. Cain
pp. 729-731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0949
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History, Politics, and the Novel (review)

Marilyn Sibley Fries
p. 732
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0233
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The Current in Criticism: Essays on the Present and Future of Literary Theory (review)

John Fekete
pp. 736-738
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0497
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The Self-conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon, and: The Dark and Light Gods: Essays on the Self in Modem Literature (review)

Marvin Magalaner
pp. 738-739
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0629
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Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, and: Pieces of Resistance (review)

Robert Newsom
pp. 740-741
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0762
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Anzia Yezierska: A Writer's Life, and: The Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914 (review)

Strother B. Purdy
pp. 742-743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0895
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The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge (review)

Steven G. Kellman
pp. 743-744
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1028
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Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction, and: Consuming Fiction (review)

Jean E. Kennard
pp. 745-747
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0313
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No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Volume 1: The War of the Words, and: Women Reading Women's Writing (review)

Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
pp. 747-749
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0445
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Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass Market Fiction for Women (review)

Kate Ellis
pp. 749-750
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0577
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Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction (review)

Bonnie Lyons
pp. 750-751
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0710
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The Vietnamese Novel in French: A Literary Response to Colonialism (review)

Thomas Myers
pp. 752-753
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0843
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Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun, and: The Odyssey of Shen Congwen (review)

Perry Link
pp. 753-755
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0976
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Reading the African Novel (review)

Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan
pp. 755-756
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0261
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The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside (review)

Timothy Brennan
pp. 756-757
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0393
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Modern Fiction Studies Volume 34: 1988

pp. 760-762
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1408
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Contributors

p. 518
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Other Books Received

pp. 668-671
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0232
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Other Books Received

pp. 710-711
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Other Books Received

p. 728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0816
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Contemporary Political Satire: Narrative Strategies in the Post-Modern Context, and: Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy, and: Postmodernist Fiction (review)

E. Ann Kaplan
pp. 733-735
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0365
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Other Books Received

pp. 758-759
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0524
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