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  1. The Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize
  3. p. 190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1503
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  1. D. M. Thomas' The White Hotel: Mirrors, Triangles, and Sublime Repression
  2. Robert D. Newman
  3. pp. 193-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0817
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  1. Hardy's Laodicean Narrative
  2. Linda M. Austin
  3. pp. 211-222
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0950
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  1. Jewish-American Literature's Lost-and-Found Department: How Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick Reimagine Their Significant Dead
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. 223-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0234
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  1. Two Letters from John Gardner
  2. Robert Randolph
  3. pp. 237-240
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0366
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  1. Roger's Version: Updike's Negative-Solid Model of The Scarlet Letter
  2. Raymond J. Wilson III
  3. pp. 241-250
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0498
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  1. No God in the Sky and No God in Myself: "Godliness" and Anderson's Winesburg
  2. Joseph Dewey
  3. pp. 251-259
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0630
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  1. Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 1, 1853-1866, and: At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia (review)
  2. Louis J. Budd
  3. pp. 265-266
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0763
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  1. The Library of Henry James, and: The Book World of Henry James: Appropriating the Classics, and: Henry James: The Indirect Vision, and: The Language of a Master: Theories of Style and the Late Writing of Henry James (review)
  2. Charles Caramello
  3. pp. 267-270
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0896
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  1. American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties (review)
  2. Grant Webster
  3. pp. 270-272
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1029
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  1. The Letters of Jack London (review)
  2. Tony Williams
  3. pp. 272-274
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0314
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  1. Dos Passos' "U.S.A.": A Critical Study, and: A Storyteller and a City: Sherwood Anderson's Chicago, and: Theodore Dreiser: Journalism. Vol. 1, Newspaper Writings, 1892-1895 (review)
  2. Russell J. Reising
  3. pp. 275-277
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0446
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  1. From Biography to History: The Historical Imagination and American Fiction, 1880-1940 (review)
  2. John Rohrkemper
  3. pp. 278-279
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0578
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  1. A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example, and: Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature (review)
  2. Michael Hoffman
  3. pp. 279-281
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0711
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  1. On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner, and: William Faulkner: The Art of Stylization in his Early Graphic and Literary Work (review)
  2. James G. Watson
  3. pp. 281-283
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0844
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  1. The Yoknapatawpha Chronicle of Gavin Stevens, and: Faulkner and Race: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1986, and: Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism (review)
  2. Victor Strandberg
  3. pp. 283-286
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0977
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  1. In the Shadow of the Giant: Thomas Wolfe—Correspondence of Edward C. Aswell and Elizabeth Nowell, 1949-1958 (review)
  2. Leslie Field
  3. pp. 287-288
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0262
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  1. World Without Heroes: The Brooklyn Novels of Daniel Fuchs, and: The Monological Jew: A Literary Study (review)
  2. Leslie Field
  3. pp. 288-290
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0394
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  1. Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson, and: Ellen Glasgow's Reasonable Doubts: A Collection of Her Writings (review)
  2. Nancy Walker
  3. pp. 290-292
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0525
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  1. Writing to Survive: The Private Notebooks of Conrad Richter (review)
  2. Edwin W. Gaston Jr.
  3. pp. 292-293
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0658
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  1. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Sojourner at Cross Creek, and: Invasion of Privacy (review)
  2. Kevin M. McCarthy
  3. pp. 293-295
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0791
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  1. Freud and Nabokov, and: Understanding Vladimir Nabokov, and: Desperate Storytelling: Post-Romantic Elaborations of the Mock-Heroic Mode, and: Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov, and: Nabokov's "Ada": The Place of Consciousness (review)
  2. Charles Ross
  3. pp. 295-297
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0924
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  1. Jean Stafford: A Biography (review)
  2. Mary V. Davidson
  3. pp. 297-299
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0208
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  1. In Search of J. D. Salinger (review)
  2. John Whalen-Bridge
  3. pp. 299-300
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0341
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  1. Frontier's End: The Life and Literature of Harvey Fergusson (review)
  2. Joseph J. Wydeven
  3. pp. 300-301
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0473
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  1. John Cheever: A Biography (review)
  2. Lynne M. Waldeland
  3. pp. 301-302
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0605
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  1. Conversations with Norman Mailer (review)
  2. Philip Bufithis
  3. pp. 302-304
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0738
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  1. The Novels of John Gardner: Making Life Art as a Moral Process (review)
  2. Robert A. Morace
  3. pp. 304-305
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0871
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  1. A "Gravity's Rainbow" Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (review)
  2. Molly Hite
  3. pp. 305-306
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1004
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  1. Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970, and: In the African-American Grain, and: Self-Discovery in Afro-American Narrative, and: The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined (review)
  2. Norman Harris
  3. pp. 307-310
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0289
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  1. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist, and: Studies in Black American Literature, Volume III: Black Feminist Criticism and Critical Theory, and: Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America, and: The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition (review)
  2. Edna L. Steeves
  3. pp. 310-313
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0421
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  1. "Borges and the Kabbalah" and Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry, and: Gabriel García Márquez and the Powers of Fiction, and: Lives on the Line: The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors (review)
  2. Lance Olsen
  3. pp. 314-316
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0552
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  1. Lord Jim, and: Joseph Conrad: Consciousness and Integrity (review)
  2. Daniel R. Schwarz
  3. pp. 318-320
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0818
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  1. Conrad and Religion (review)
  2. Richard F. Peterson
  3. p. 321
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0951
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  1. The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (review)
  2. Edward Lauterbach
  3. pp. 322-323
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0235
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  1. Let Me Be Lost: Codebook for "Finnegans Wake", and: James Joyce's Letters to Sylvia Beach, 1921-1940, and: Joyce's "Ulysses": The Larger Perspective, and: Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (review)
  2. Laurent Milesi
  3. pp. 323-328
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0367
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  1. Dreamscheme: Narrative and Voice in "Finnegans Wake", and: The Language of the Devil: Texture and Archetype in "Finnegans Wake", and: Joyce's "Ulysses": An Anatomy of the Soul (review)
  2. Paul Van Caspel
  3. pp. 328-331
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0499
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  1. Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture (review)
  2. Bernard Benstock
  3. pp. 331-332
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0631
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  1. D. H. Lawrence's Non-Fiction: Art, Thought and Genre, and: Lady Chatterley: The Making of the Novel (review)
  2. Kingsley Widmer
  3. pp. 332-334
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0764
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  1. The Spirit of D. H. Lawrence; Centenary Studies (review)
  2. Joseph Voelker
  3. pp. 334-336
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0897
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  1. The Enemy Opposite: The Outlaw Criticism of Wyndham Lewis (review)
  2. Bonnie Kime Scott
  3. pp. 336-337
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1030
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  1. Graham Greene: On the Frontier. Politics and Religion in the Novels, and: Greene and Kierkegaard: The Discourse of Belief, and: An Underground Fate: The Idiom of Romance in the Later Novels of Graham Greene (review)
  2. Hans-Peter Breuer
  3. pp. 337-341
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0315
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  1. Beckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach (review)
  2. Melvin J. Friedman
  3. pp. 341-342
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0447
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  1. Independent Women: The Function of Gender in the Novels of Barbara Pym (review)
  2. Mary Knochel
  3. pp. 342-343
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0579
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  1. Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text (review)
  2. Diane M. McPherson
  3. pp. 343-344
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0712
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  1. No, Not Bloomsbury (review)
  2. John V. Knapp
  3. p. 345
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0845
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  1. Diagnosis and Detection: The Medical Iconography of Sherlock Holmes, and: Comic Crime, and: The Sleuth and the Scholar: Origins, Evolution, and Current Trends in Detective Fiction (review)
  2. Edward Lauterbach
  3. pp. 346-349
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0978
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  1. Heinrich Böll: A German for his Time, and: The Modern German Novel, and: The Hero's Quest for the Self: An Archetypal Approach to Hesse's "Demian" and Other Novels (review)
  2. Siegried Mandel
  3. pp. 351-353
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0395
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  1. Christa Wolf's Utopian Vision: From Marxism to Feminism, and: Against the Horizon: Feminism and Postwar Austrian Women Writers (review)
  2. Kathleen L. Komar
  3. pp. 354-356
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0526
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  1. The Birth of "A la recherche du temps perdu", and: Marcel Proust (review)
  2. Laurence M. Porter
  3. pp. 356-358
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0659
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  1. Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom (review)
  2. William L. McBride
  3. pp. 358-359
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0792
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  1. Colette (review)
  2. Hela Michot-Dietrich
  3. pp. 359-360
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0925
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  1. Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers: Selected Papers from The Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literatures, 1984-1985 (review)
  2. Kitzie McKinney
  3. pp. 361-362
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0209
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  1. Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs and Modern Theory, and: Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's "The Name of the Rose" (review)
  2. Michel Viegnes
  3. pp. 362-364
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0342
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  1. The Window and the Garden: the Modernist Fictions of Ramón Pérez de Ayala (review)
  2. Patricia Hart
  3. pp. 364-365
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0474
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  1. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, and: Paul Nizan: Communist Novelist (review)
  2. Timothy Brennan
  3. pp. 367-370
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0739
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  1. The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture (review)
  2. Brooke K. Horvath
  3. pp. 370-371
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0872
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  1. Exploring Postmodernism (review)
  2. Bruce Robbins
  3. p. 372
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1005
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  1. Dictionary of Narratology, and: Who Says This? The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader (review)
  2. Wallace Martin
  3. pp. 374-376
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0422
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  1. A Likely Story: Probability and Play in Fiction (review)
  2. Beth A. Boehm
  3. pp. 376-377
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0553
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  1. History and Value, and: Perspective in British Historical Fiction Today (review)
  2. Gauri Viswanathan
  3. pp. 377-380
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0686
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  1. Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and his Contemporaries (review)
  2. Caryl Emerson
  3. pp. 380-383
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0819
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  1. Music, Archetype, and the Writer: A Jungian View, and: Beyond Modernism: Toward a New Myth Criticism (review)
  2. Philip Stevick
  3. pp. 383-385
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0952
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  1. Unsent Letters: Irreverent Notes From a Literary Life (review)
  2. Ellen Carol Jones
  3. pp. 385-386
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0236
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  1. The Raj in Fiction: A Study of Nineteenth-Century British Attitudes Towards India, and: Raja Rao and Cultural Tradition (review)
  2. K. S. Narayana Rao
  3. pp. 387-389
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0368
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  1. V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading (review)
  2. Harveen Sachdeva Mann
  3. pp. 389-391
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0500
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  1. African Literature, African Critics (review)
  2. Benedict M. Ibitokun
  3. pp. 391-393
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0632
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  1. The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel, and: Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community (review)
  2. Elizabeth Boyd Thompson
  3. pp. 393-394
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0765
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  1. Six Women Novelists, and: Women Novelists Today: A Survey of English Writing in the Seventies and Eighties (review)
  2. Laura L. Doan
  3. pp. 395-397
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0898
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  1. The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction, and: Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji (review)
  2. Marvin Marcus
  3. pp. 397-399
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1031
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  1. Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction, and: Talking Across the World: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919 (review)
  2. Curtis C. Smith
  3. pp. 400-401
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0316
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  1. Contributors
  3. p. 192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0684
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 316-318
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0685
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. pp. 349-350
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0263
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 366
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0606
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  1. Narrative Crossings: Theory and Pragmatics of Prose Fiction, and: Individuations: The Novel as Dissent, and: Semiotic and Structuralist Analyses of Fiction: An Introduction and A Survey of Applications (review)
  2. James J. Sosnoski
  3. pp. 373-374
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0290
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  1. Other Books Received
  3. p. 402
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0448
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