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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Weber -- Physics disarmed : probabilistic knowledge in the works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot / Tina Young Choi -- Herder's unsettling of the distinction between fact and fiction / John K. Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. …”
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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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Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

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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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The Rhetoric of Fictionality : Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction / by Walsh, Richard, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The pragmatics of narrative fictionality -- Fictionality and mimesis -- Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory -- The narrator and the frame of fiction -- The rhetoric of representation and narrative voice -- The narrative imagination across media -- Narrative creativity : the novelist as medium -- Reader involvement : why we wept for Little Nell.…”
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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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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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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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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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Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction : Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 / by Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Plotting financial speculation : the making of stock-market villains -- Silver-fork speculation and the making of financial fiction -- The sensational stock-market novel -- Speculators abroad -- Speculators at home.…”
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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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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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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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The Body of Writing : An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction / by Chevaillier, Flore, 1979-

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Elusive Childhood : Impossible Representation in Modern Fiction / by Honeyman, Susan

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