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| Preface |
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| Writing about Fiction |
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1 | (7) |
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8 | (13) |
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Related: Atwood, Why Do You Write? |
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21 | (23) |
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44 | (5) |
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Related: Bambara, What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? |
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49 | (2) |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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51 | (7) |
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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote |
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58 | (8) |
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66 | (9) |
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75 | (11) |
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Related: Carver, From On Writing |
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86 | (15) |
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Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's Case |
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101 | (9) |
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110 | (13) |
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Related: Chekhov, Letter to D. V. Grigorovich |
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843 | (1) |
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Chekhov, Letter to A. S. Suvorin |
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123 | (3) |
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126 | (61) |
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Related: Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' |
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845 | (3) |
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Conrad, Letter to Barrett H. Clark |
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848 | (51) |
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Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness |
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899 | (10) |
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C. P. Sarvan, Racism and the Heart of Darkness |
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187 | (2) |
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189 | (18) |
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Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard |
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849 | (48) |
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Allan Gurganus on The Open Boat |
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897 | (18) |
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Charles C. Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] |
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207 | (12) |
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219 | (9) |
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228 | (8) |
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Related: Ellison, An Interview |
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236 | (13) |
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249 | (13) |
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262 | (7) |
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Related: Faulkner, An Interview |
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269 | (16) |
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285 | (12) |
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Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's The Management of Grief |
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The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World |
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297 | (5) |
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302 | (12) |
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314 | (11) |
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325 | (10) |
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Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales |
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Hills Like White Elephants |
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335 | (5) |
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Related: Frederick Busch on Hills Like White Elephants |
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The Conscience of the Court |
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340 | (11) |
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351 | (4) |
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355 | (31) |
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Related: C. C. Loomis, Jr., Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' |
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386 | (32) |
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418 | (8) |
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Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor |
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Kafka, Letter to Max Brod |
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426 | (3) |
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429 | (2) |
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter |
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431 | (12) |
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443 | (11) |
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Related: Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas |
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454 | (5) |
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459 | (8) |
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Disorder and Early Sorrow |
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467 | (23) |
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Related: Mann, Letter to Paul Amann |
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490 | (10) |
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500 | (11) |
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511 | (6) |
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Related: Maupassant, The Novel |
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517 | (12) |
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529 | (27) |
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Related: Leo Marx, Melville's Parable of the Walls |
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556 | (13) |
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Related: Richard Ford on The Management of Grief |
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Mukherjee, A Fout-Hundred-Year-Old Woman |
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569 | (17) |
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Related: Munro, What Is Real? |
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586 | (5) |
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How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again |
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591 | (12) |
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Related: Oatesx, The Art and Craft of Revision |
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603 | (13) |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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616 | (11) |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge |
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627 | (12) |
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Related: O'Connor, The Nature and Aim of Fiction |
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870 | (44) |
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Lee Smith on A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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639 | (9) |
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Related: Edward P. Jones on Guests of the Nation |
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648 | (13) |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
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661 | (14) |
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Related: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition |
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871 | (36) |
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Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales |
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907 | (9) |
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Richard Wilbur, The House of Poe |
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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675 | (7) |
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Related: Porter, An Interview |
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The Conversion of the Jews |
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682 | (11) |
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693 | (11) |
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704 | (8) |
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712 | (8) |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
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720 | (5) |
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Related: Thurber, An Interview |
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875 | |
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725 | (40) |
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Related: Gary Saul Morson, The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction |
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765 | (6) |
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Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells Medal |
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771 | (5) |
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776 | (7) |
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783 | (16) |
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799 | (7) |
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Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn Path |
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806 | (4) |
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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs |
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810 | (9) |
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819 | (6) |
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man |
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825 | (10) |
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835 | (47) |
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836 | (1) |
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What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? |
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836 | (1) |
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837 | (3) |
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840 | (3) |
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Letter to D.V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886 |
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843 | (2) |
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Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888 |
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844 | (1) |
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Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' |
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845 | (3) |
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Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918 |
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848 | (1) |
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Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895 [?] |
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849 | (1) |
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849 | (3) |
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852 | (4) |
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856 | (3) |
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Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 |
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859 | (1) |
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860 | (2) |
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Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 |
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862 | (1) |
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862 | (2) |
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A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman |
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864 | (2) |
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866 | (3) |
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The Art and Craft of Revision |
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869 | (1) |
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The Nature and Aim of Fiction |
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870 | (1) |
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The Philosophy of Composition |
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871 | (1) |
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872 | (3) |
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875 | (1) |
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876 | (3) |
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Accepting the Howells Medal |
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879 | (1) |
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880 | (2) |
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882 | (10) |
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892 | (26) |
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Willa Cather's ``Paul's Case'' |
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892 | (1) |
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Ernest Hemingway's ``Hills Like White, Elephants'' |
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893 | (1) |
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Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor |
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894 | (1) |
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Eudora Welty's ``A Worn Path'' |
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895 | (1) |
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Bharati Mukherjee's ``The Management of Grief'' |
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896 | (1) |
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Stephen Crane's ``The Open Boat'' |
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897 | (2) |
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
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899 | (1) |
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Frank O'Connor's ``Guests of the Nation'' |
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900 | (1) |
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Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' |
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901 | (4) |
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Melville's Parable of the Walls |
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905 | (2) |
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The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction |
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907 | (1) |
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Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales |
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907 | (2) |
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Racism and the Heart of Darkness |
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909 | (5) |
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Flannery O'Connor's ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' |
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914 | (1) |
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[Stephen Crane: Naturalist] |
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915 | (1) |
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916 | (2) |
| Glossary of Critical Terms |
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918 | (7) |
| Permissions Acknowledgments |
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925 | (6) |
| Index of Titles |
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931 | |
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