Search Results - Fiction.

Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa / by Rastogi, Pallavi

Table of Contents: “…Afrindian identity and fiction today -- Interviews : Deena Padayachee ; Ahmed Essop ; Farida Karodia ; Praba Moodley ; Aziz Hassim ; Bonnie Govender.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature / by Manzella, Abigail G. H.

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Fact, Fiction, and Form : Selected Essays / by Rader, Ralph Wilson, 1930-2007

Table of Contents: “…Fact, theory, and literary explanation -- The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies -- Literary permanence and critical change -- Literary constructs : experience and explanation -- Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson -- The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms -- Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications -- Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel -- The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre -- From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action -- Tom Jones : the form in history -- "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy -- The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch -- Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster -- Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel -- Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual -- The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar.…”
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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 / by Solomon, Claire

Table of Contents: “…The neo-naturalist reinvention of Jewish Argentina in contemporary historical fiction about white slavery -- Blanca metafiction : denarrativizing Jewish white slavery.…”
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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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Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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In the Presence of Audience : The Self in Diaries and Fiction / by Martinson, Deborah, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in the presence of audience : the self in diaries and fiction -- Virginia Woolf's diary : "whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" …”
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Elusive Childhood : Impossible Representation in Modern Fiction / by Honeyman, Susan

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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

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Telling the Truth : The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction / by Foley, Barbara, 1948-

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Borrowed Forms : The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction / by Lachman, Kathryn

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The Vitality of Allegory : Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Johnson, Gary, 1966-

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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the bluestocking and the schoolgirl -- A dense network of friends -- "Ces deux opiniâtres amies" : reading Colette's Le pur et l'impur as a response to Woolf's A room of one's own -- In pursuit of Woolf's 'woman's sentence' in Colette's La vagabonde, Duo, and Le toutounier -- Fathers in the first fictions of Woolf and Colette -- Reading across the Channel : the reception of Woolf's and Colette's work in England and in France -- A dining room of one's own : Woolf and Colette on food and sex -- Appendix 1. …”
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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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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassination : Recent Poetry and Fiction /

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Character Constellations : Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction / by Smeets, Roel

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A Heart Beating Hard / by Goodman, Lauren Foss

Subjects: “…American fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst00807048 2681…”
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