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Formative Fictions Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

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Fictions of Evidence Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

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Science Fiction in Argentina Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse / by Page, Joanna, 1974-

Subjects: “…LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy. bisacsh…”
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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 / by Machor, James L.

Table of Contents: “…"These days of double dealing": informed response, reader appropriation, and the tales of Poe ; Multiple audiences and Melville's fiction: receptions, recoveries, and regressions ; Response as (re)construction: the reception of Catharine Sedgwick's novels ; Mercurial readings: the making and unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'-- Conclusion: American literary history and the historical study of interpretive practices.…”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Contemporary African American Fiction New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.…”
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Arc and the Sediment a Novel / by Allen-Yazzie, Christine Diane

Subjects: “…Deserts Fiction.…”
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Hear Him Roar A Novel / by Wingfield, Andrew, 1966-

Subjects: “…Puma Fiction.…”
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Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field by Gould, Claudia

Subjects: “…Protestants North Carolina Fiction.…”
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The Body of Writing An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction / by Chevaillier, Flore, 1979-

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Tactics of the Human Experimental Technics in American Fiction / by Shackelford, Laura

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Scenes of Sympathy Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction / by Jaffe, Audrey

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Interpretive Conventions The Reader in the Study of American Fiction / by Mailloux, Steven

Subjects: “…American fiction History and criticism.…”
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Frankenstein Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds / by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

Subjects: “…Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) Fiction.…”
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The Treacherous Imagination Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction / by McGill, Robert, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…A short history of transgression -- Biographical desire -- Fiction's betrayals, intimacy's trials -- In bed with an author.…”
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A Body of Individuals The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction / by Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise -- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark -- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman -- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.…”
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Privately Empowered Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

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Novel Translations The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730 / by Wiggin, Bethany, 1972-

Subjects: “…European fiction 18th century History and criticism.…”
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The Folklore Muse Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists /

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Hard Sayings The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction / by Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.…”
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