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Brown girl, brownstones
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Paule Marshall |
"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious … |
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The Haunted dusk
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Charles L. Crow,Howard Kerr,John William Crowley |
Contents:
Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story • essay by G. Richard Thompson [as by G. R. Thompson ]
Phantasms and Death in Poe's Fiction • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy
Philanthropy and… |
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On moral fiction
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John Gardner |
Argues that great moral fiction has open-mindedly tested human values in an attempt to discover what best promotes human fulfillment and that current fiction fails to do so and, thus, undermines our … |
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Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
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Roberta L. Salper |
"This book is a collection of eleven essays devoted to the work of Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Long the recipient of critical analyses from various perspectives, Valle-Inclan's writing has ne… |
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Narrative fiction
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Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan |
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan provides a synthesis of contemporary approaches to narrative fiction, consideri… |
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Astrid Lindgren
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Eva-Maria Metcalf |
In this first book-length study intended for American readers of the Swedish author - and the first to compare story line, character development, and narrative style in the original Swedish and in En… |
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Kerouac's spontaneous poetics
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Regina Weinreich |
"While a legend has developed about the man Jack Kerouac, there has not been a thorough study of what he wrote. This is the first book to explore his place in American literature by establishing the … |
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Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
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Paula Gallant Eckard |
"Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power h… |
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Contemporary fiction
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Jago Morrison |
The last twenty-five years have seen an extraordinary renaissance in contemporary fiction in the English language. Jago Morrison's Contemporary Fiction provides a much-needed accessible introduction … |
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