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Fictions of globalization by Annesley, James

Subjects: “…American fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Cannibal fictions American explorations of colonialism, race, gender and sexuality / by Berglund, Jeff

Subjects: “…American fiction History and criticism.…”
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Fictional dialogue speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel / by Thomas, Bronwen

Subjects: “…American fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / by Hume, Kathryn, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?…”
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Fictions Inc. : the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture / by Clare, Ralph, 1975-

Subjects: “…American fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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The Chicago of fiction a resource guide / by Kaser, James A., 1960-

Subjects: “…American fiction Illinois Chicago Bio-bibliography.…”
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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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Place in American fiction excursions and explorations /

Subjects: “…American fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Masculinity in fiction and film representing men in popular genres, 1945-2000 / by Baker, Brian, 1969-

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Contemporary American fiction by Brauner, David, 1968-

Subjects: “…American fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Sylvia Plath's fiction a critical study / by Ferretter, Luke, 1970-

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The art of sympathy in fiction forms of ethical and emotional persuasion / by Sklar, Howard, 1959-

Subjects: “…American fiction History and criticism.…”
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Naturalism in American fiction : the classic phase / by Conder, John J.

Subjects: “…American fiction 19th century History and criticism.…”
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Fiction across borders imagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels / by Black, Shameem, 1976-

Subjects: “…American fiction Minority authors History and criticism.…”
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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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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Myth and the institutional construction of postmodernism in The Friday book -- Folk culture, the archive, and the work of the imaginary -- Fiction, fraud, and fakes -- Style and symptom in postmodern science fiction -- Role playing games, possible world theory, and the fictionality of assemblage -- Institutional sutures in electronic writing -- Fictionality in the public sphere.…”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

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Reading Irish-American fiction the hyphenated self / by Hallissy, Margaret

Subjects: “…American fiction Irish-American authors History and criticism.…”
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