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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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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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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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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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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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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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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

Subjects: “…Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. nli 148256…”
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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

Subjects: “…Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. nli 148256…”
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Tactics of the Human : Experimental Technics in American Fiction / by Shackelford, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: Retracing Digital Cultures through American Fiction; 1. Literary Turns at the Scene of Digital Writing; 2. …”
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Interpretive Conventions : The Reader in the Study of American Fiction / by Mailloux, Steven

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

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: Retracing Digital Cultures through American Fiction; 1. Literary Turns at the Scene of Digital Writing; 2. …”
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Interpretive Conventions : The Reader in the Study of American Fiction / by Mailloux, Steven

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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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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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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…All at one point conveys the point, period: or, black science fiction is bursting out all over -- Imaginative encounters / Hortense J. …”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…All at one point conveys the point, period: or, black science fiction is bursting out all over -- Imaginative encounters / Hortense J. …”
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The Form of American Romance / by Dryden, Edgar A.

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The Form of American Romance / by Dryden, Edgar A.

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