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Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990Table of Contents

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View "It all depends on what story you hear": Historiographic Metafiction and Colin Johnson's Dr. Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World and Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch
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View Miscegenation and "the Dicta of Race and Class": The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen's Passing
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View Thinking in Henry James, and: Henry James and the "Woman Business", and: Desire and Love in Henry James: A Study of the Late Novels, and: Eurydice Reclaimed: Language, Gender, and Voice in Henry James (review)
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View A Henry James Encyclopedia, and: Ghosts, Demons, and Henry James: "The Turn of the Screw" at the Turn of the Century, and: A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915, and: The Magic Circle of Henry James: Essays in Honour of Darshan Singh Maini (review)
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View Henry James's Portrait of the Writer as Hero, and: New Essays on "The Portrait of a Lady" (review)
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View The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells, and: Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market, and: Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, and: The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane (review)
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View Sherwood Anderson: Early Writings, and: Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters, and Correspondence to Ernest Hemingway, and: A Moving Picture Feast: The Filmgoer's Hemingway, and: The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and: Paris in American Literature (review)
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View Sherwood Anderson's Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, and: The Modern American Novel 1914-1945 (review)
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View The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference, and: Reading Faulkner, and: Faulkner's Fables of Creativity (review)
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View Women on the Color Line, and: Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region, and: From Satire to Subversion: The Fantasies of James Branch Cabell (review)
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View Understanding Carson McCullers, and: Art and the Accidental in Anne Tyler, and: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates (review)
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View "Slaughterhouse-Five ": Reforming the Novel and the World, and: The Gift of the Other: Gabriel Marcel's Concept of Intersubjectivity in Walker Percy's Novels, and: The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor (review)
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View Carnival of Repetition: Gaddis's "The Recognitions" and Postmodern Theory, and: Alternate Worlds: A Study of Postmodern Antirealistic American Fiction (review)
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View A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon, and: Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional Analysis (review)
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View Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea, 1945-1962, and: Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency (review)
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View Interviews with Latin American Writers, and: José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision: A Study of "Paradiso" and Other Prose Works, and: Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (review)
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View H. G. Wells Under Revision: Proceedings of the International H. G. Wells Symposium London, July 1986 (review)
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View The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: Volume V: 1924-27, and: D. H. Lawrence: A Literary Life, and: The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence, and: D. H. Lawrence in the Modern World (review)
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View D. H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination: Essays on Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading, and: States of Estrangement: The Novels of D. H. Lawrence, 1912-1917, and: D. H. Lawrence: Modes of Fictional Style (review)
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View From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh, and: Aspects of the Novelist: E. M. Forster—Rhetoric, Pattern and Rhythm (review)
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View The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell, and: Orwell and the Politics of Despair, and: George Orwell: A Reassessment (review)
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View C. S. Lewis: A Biography, and: The C. S. Lewis Hoax, and: Letters to Lalage: The Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims (review)
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View A Female Vision of the City: London in the Novels of Five British Women, and: Happily Ever After? Women's Fiction in Postwar Britain 1945-60 (review)
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View Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership, and: Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists (review)
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View The UAB Marcel Proust Symposium: In Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of "Swann's Way" (1913-1988) (review)
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View Modernity and the Text: Revisions of German Modernism, and: After Kafka: The Influence of Kafka's Fiction, and: Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading, and: Thomas Mann's Short Fiction: An Intellectual Biography (review)
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View The Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism, and: Writers from South Africa: Culture, Politics and Literary Theory and Activity in South Africa Today, and: Countries of the Mind: The Fiction of J. M. Coetzee (review)
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View Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman, and: The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings (review)
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View Narrative as Communication, and: Narrative Perspective in Fiction: A Phenomenological Mediation of Reader, Text, and World (review)
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View The Tragicomic Novel: Studies in a Fictional Mode from Meredith to Joyce, and: Elegiac Fictions: The Motif of the Unlived Life (review)
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ISSN | 1080-658X |
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Print ISSN | 0026-7724 |
Launched on MUSE | 2009-01-01 |
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