New and Selected Essays
By HOWARD NEMEROV The topic is usually literature, the state of
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The Self-Apparent Word
Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction
By JEROME KLINKOWITZ. "The novel is dead" was the cry of the
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Conviction's Net of Branches
Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry
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The Fiction of Philip Roth
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SEARLES.In many ways John Updike could be termed
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Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth–
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The Poetics of Protest
Literary Form and Political Implication
in the Victim-of-Society Novel
By GEORGE GOODIN. Using more than 20 victim-of-society novels,
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