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  1. Announcements
  3. p. 214
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1501
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  1. The Art of Projective Thinking: Franz Kafka and the Paranoid Vision
  2. Bernard McElroy
  3. pp. 217-232
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0042
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  1. Germinal James: The Lesson of the Apprentice
  2. Stuart Johnson
  3. pp. 233-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0069
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  1. Announcements
  3. p. 248
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1473
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  1. The Coup: John Updike's Modernist Masterpiece
  2. Kathleen Lathrop
  3. pp. 249-262
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0096
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  1. Reading a Wordless Statement: The Structure of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook
  2. Patrocinio P. Schweickart
  3. pp. 263-279
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0123
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  1. The Paradoxes of Belonging: The White West Indian Woman in Fiction
  2. Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell
  3. pp. 281-293
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0150
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  1. Crane's Coxcomb
  2. George Monteiro
  3. pp. 295-305
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0175
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  1. The Real Woman Inside the Fence in "The Chrysanthemums"
  2. Stanley Renner
  3. pp. 305-317
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0032
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  1. Nicole Warren Diver and Alabama Beggs Knight: Women on the Threshold of Freedom
  2. Sarah Beebe Fryer
  3. pp. 318-326
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0059
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  1. The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (review)
  2. Daniel R. Schwarz
  3. pp. 331-332
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0086
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  1. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Volume Four: 1909-1913 (review)
  2. John Halperin
  3. pp. 336-338
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0140
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  1. "O Beloved Kids": Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children, and: Robert Louis Stevenson and "The Beach of Falesá": A Study in Victorian Publishing with the Original Text, and: The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm (review)
  2. Hans-Peter Breuer
  3. pp. 338-341
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0165
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  1. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Volume One (1874-1888) (review)
  2. Harold H. Watts
  3. pp. 341-343
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0191
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  1. H. G Wells: Aspects of a Life, and: The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of H. G. Wells, and: Fairy Tale and Romance in Works of Ford Madox Ford, and: The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (review)
  2. Harold H. Watts
  3. pp. 343-347
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0048
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  1. A Companion to Joyce Studies, and: The Aesthetics of Dedalus and Bloom (review)
  2. Richard M. Kain
  3. pp. 347-349
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0075
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  1. Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant, and: Virginia Woolf: Centennial Essays, and: Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, and: The Short Season between Two Silences: The Mystical and the Political in the Novels of Virginia Woolf (review)
  2. Margaret Moan Rowe
  3. pp. 349-352
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0102
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  1. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five, 1936-1941, and: Virginia Woolf: A Centenary Perspective (review)
  2. Marvin Magalaner
  3. pp. 352-354
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0129
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  1. A "Strange Sapience": The Creative Imagination of D. H. Lawrence, and: D. H. Lawrence and the Devouring Mother: The Search for a Patriarchal Ideal of Leadership, and: The Development of D. H. Lawrence's Prose Themes, 1906-1915 (review)
  2. John Burt Foster Jr.
  3. pp. 354-357
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0155
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  1. D. H. Lawrence's "Lady": A New Look at "Lady Chatterley's Lover, and: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Volume 3: October 1916-June 1921 (review)
  2. Jeffrey Meyers
  3. pp. 357-361
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0180
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  1. The Short Fiction of D. H. Lawrence (review)
  2. Jeffrey Meyers
  3. pp. 361-363
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0037
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  1. E. M. Forster: Our Permanent Contemporary, and: C. P. Snow: An Oral Biography (review)
  2. John V. Knapp
  3. pp. 363-365
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0064
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  1. Literature of Crisis, 1910-22: "Howards End," "Heartbreak House," "Women in Love," and "The Waste Land", and: The English Novel of History and Society, 1940-80, and: Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction, and: Interviews with Britain's Angry Young Men (review)
  2. Robert C. Schweik
  3. pp. 365-369
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0091
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  1. Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation, and: A Companion to "Under the Volcano" (review)
  2. Mary Beth Pringle
  3. pp. 370-372
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0118
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  1. The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction, and: Samuel Beckett and the Meaning of Being: A Study in Ontological Parable (review)
  2. S. E. Gontarski
  3. pp. 372-374
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0145
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  1. Guilt and Glory. Studies in Margaret Drabble's Novels 1963-80, and: Iris Murdoch's Comic Vision, and: The Divided Heroine: A Recurrent Pattern in Six English Novels (review)
  2. Jean Pickering
  3. pp. 375-377
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0170
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  1. A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers, and: The Irish Short Story: A Critical History (review)
  2. K. Marre
  3. pp. 377-380
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0027
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  1. Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces", and: Through the Open Door: A New Look at C. S. Lewis (review)
  2. Brian Murray
  3. pp. 380-382
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0054
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  1. Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle: From Practitioner to Sherlock Holmes and Beyond, and: The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, and: The Baker Street Reader: Cornerstone Writings about Sherlock Holmes, and: Sherlock Holmes through Time and Space, and: Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, and: The Agatha Christie Companion: The Complete Guide to Agatha Christie's Life and Work, and: Twelve Englishmen of Mystery (review)
  2. Edward S. Lauterbach
  3. pp. 382-389
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0081
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  1. A Woman's Place in the Novels of Henry James, and: Henry James's American Girl: The Embroidery on the Canvas, and: Henry James: Interviews and Recollections (review)
  2. Christof Wegelin
  3. pp. 391-395
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0135
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  1. The Authentic Mark Twain: A Literary Biography of Samuel L. Clemens (review)
  2. John S. Tuckey
  3. pp. 395-396
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0160
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  1. The Bang and the Whimper: Apocalypse and Entropy in American Literature (review)
  2. Joe Dewey
  3. pp. 396-397
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0186
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  1. Jack London —An American Radical? (review)
  2. Sam S. Baskett
  3. pp. 398-399
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0043
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  1. The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable (review)
  2. M.E. Grenander
  3. pp. 399-400
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0070
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  1. Caroline Gordon as Novelist and Woman of Letters, and: Another Generation: Southern Fiction since World War II, and: Conversations with Eudora Welty (review)
  2. W. J. Stuckey
  3. pp. 400-402
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0097
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  1. Dos Passos: A Life (review)
  2. John Rohrkemper
  3. pp. 402-404
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0124
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  1. Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (review)
  2. Brian Straight
  3. pp. 404-405
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0151
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  1. With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, and: Hemingway in Cuba (review)
  2. Jeffrey Meyers
  3. pp. 406-408
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0176
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  1. Cassandra's Daughters: The Women in Hemingway, and: The Making of a Modernist: Gertrude Stein from "Three Lives" to "Tender Buttons" (review)
  2. Michael J. Hoffman
  3. pp. 408-410
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0033
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  1. Faulkner: A Biography (One-Volume Edition), and: Three American Originals: John Ford, William Faulkner, and Charles Ives (review)
  2. Arthur F. Kinney
  3. pp. 411-413
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0060
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  1. The Ayn Rand Companion, and: The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand (review)
  2. Lloyd Lewis
  3. pp. 413-415
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0087
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  1. John Updike's Novels, and: John Updike, and: The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike (review)
  2. William T. Stafford
  3. pp. 415-416
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0114
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  1. Salinger's Glass Stories as a Composite Novel, and: In Recognition of William Gaddis (review)
  2. Alan Nadel
  3. pp. 417-419
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0141
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  1. Home before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter (review)
  2. Donald Revell
  3. pp. 419-420
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0166
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  1. Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894—1936, and: No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction, and: Rage and Celebration: Essays on Contemporary Afro-American Writing, and: Voices from Under: Black Narrative in Latin America and the Caribbean, and: Studies in Black American Literature, Volume I: Black American Prose Theory (review)
  2. Craig Werner
  3. pp. 420-424
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0192
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  1. One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and: Yesterday's Faces, Volume Two: Strange Days (review)
  2. Brooke Horvath
  3. pp. 425-427
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0049
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  1. On Becoming a Novelist, and: Art and Ardor, and: Voices: A Memoir (review)
  2. Edward Guereschi
  3. pp. 428-430
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0076
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  1. Major Themes in the Contemporary American Novel (review)
  2. Yup Park
  3. pp. 433-434
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0130
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  1. The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction (review)
  2. Boyer Allen
  3. pp. 437-438
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0181
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  1. My Life with Mikhail Bulgakov, and: Bulgakov: Life and Work, and: A Pictorial Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (review)
  2. Phyllis W. Powell, Bruce Beatie
  3. pp. 438-440
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0038
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  1. Marguerite Yourcenar in Counterpoint, and: Marguerite Yourcenar: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey, and: Simone de Beauvoir: A Study of her Writings, and: Aspects de la narration dans les romans de Marguerite Duras (review)
  2. Alfred Cismaru
  3. pp. 441-444
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0065
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  1. The Pact: My Friendship with Karen Blixen, and: Aksel Sandemose: Exile in Search of a Home (review)
  2. Margaret C. Hunt
  3. pp. 444-446
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0092
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  1. Critical Approaches to the Writings of Juan Benet (review)
  2. Jana Sandarg
  3. pp. 446-448
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0119
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  1. Catching the Conscience: Essays on Religion and Literature, and: Tragedy as a Critique of Virtue: The Novel and Ethical Reflection (review)
  2. Daniel W. Ross
  3. pp. 452-454
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0028
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  1. The Theory of Reading, and: The Philosophy of the Novel: Lukács, Marxism and the Dialectics of Form (review)
  2. Jerry A. Varsava
  3. pp. 454-456
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0055
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  1. Character and Context: Studies in the Fiction of Abramovitsh, Brenner, and Agnon (review)
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. 457-458
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0082
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  1. Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature, and: Apertures: A Study of the Writings of Brian W. Aldiss, and: Ray Bradbury and the Poetics of Reverie: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and the Reader, and: Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction (review)
  2. Gary K. Wolfe
  3. pp. 458-462
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0109
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  1. Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy, and: The End of the World, and: The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction (review)
  2. Curtis C. Smith
  3. pp. 462-464
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0136
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  1. Apocalypse and Science Fiction: A Dialectic of Religious and Secular Soteriologies, and: The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It, and: Formula Fiction? An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940 (review)
  2. Donald M. Hassler
  3. pp. 465-466
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0161
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  1. Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature, and: Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage (review)
  2. Carole Cole
  3. pp. 467-469
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0187
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  1. Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, and: Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction (review)
  2. Victoria Aarons
  3. pp. 470-471
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0044
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  1. New Zealand Fiction, and: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Short Story, and: Australian Fiction (review)
  2. Shaun F.D. Hughes
  3. pp. 471-475
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0071
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  1. Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A Generic Study of the Novel until 1940 (review)
  2. Abdul Majid B. Nabi Baksh
  3. pp. 475-476
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0098
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  1. Contributors
  3. p. 216
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0185
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  1. The Novel in English: An Introduction, and: The Sentiment of Reality, and: Reading the Novel: From Austen to E. M. Forster (review)
  2. William J. Palmer
  3. pp. 333-336
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0113
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 389-390
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0108
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  1. Major Canadian Authors: A Critical Introduction, and: Mordecai Richler (review)
  2. Clara Thomas
  3. pp. 431-433
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0103
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 434-436
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0156
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 448
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0146
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  1. The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction, and Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction, and Style and Structure in the Novel: An Introduction
  2. Steven G. Kellman
  3. pp. 449-452
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0171
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 476
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0125
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