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Can fiction become fact? The fiction-to-fact transition in recent theories of fiction.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... Most recent theories of fiction adopt pragmatic-contextual approaches that incorporate "fiction" as a historically variable category. Accordingly, the semantic composition or stylistic properties of a given text are less essential in...
Camus's The Fall: the dynamics of narrative unreliability.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... When Wayne Booth coined the term unreliable narration, he deemed the reader's role in identifying an unreliable narrator unproblematic (esp. 158-59). For him, the implied reader shared with the implied author an ironic distance from the norms...
Postmodernist Manichaean Allegory in William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... The richness of allegorical content in William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic is evident in the first paragraph of the novel, where "a kind of battered shuttlecock," actually a dead dove, is being hit "over a bough," "caught and flung," and "hit...
Margaret Edson's Wit and the art of analogy.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... Margaret Edson's play Wit (1993) dramatizes in a simultaneously heart-rending and humorous way the suffering and illumination of Vivian Bearing, a professor of seventeenth-century English poetry who is dying of advanced ovarian cancer. The play...
Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart, eds. Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media.
December 22, 2006... Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart, eds. Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media. Studies in Intermediality 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. vii + 482 pp. $135.00 hardback.
Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media collects sixteen...
Carolynn Van Dyke. Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative.
December 22, 2006... Carolynn Van Dyke. Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. 371 pp. $63.00 cloth.
Carolynn Van Dyke explores, in Chaucer's works, the ambiguity of agency,...
Patrick Colin Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Cognitive Science.
December 22, 2006... Patrick Colin Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Cognitive Science. Spec. issue of College Literature 33.1 (2006): 1-255.
The complex and mutually beneficial interaction between literary...
Stephen J. McKenna. Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety.
December 22, 2006... Stephen J. McKenna. Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. ix + 184 pp. $71.50 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Stephen McKenna's book discusses the rhetorical theory of Adam Smith, the same Adam Smith...
Reuven Tsur. "Kubla Khan"--Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style: A Study in Mental, Vocal, and Critical Performance.
December 22, 2006... Reuven Tsur. "Kubla Khan"--Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style: A Study in Mental, Vocal, and Critical Performance. Human Cognitive Processing 16. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. xii + 252 pp. $132.00 cloth.
Reuven...
T. R. Wright, ed. Thomas Hardy on Screen.
December 22, 2006... T. R. Wright, ed. Thomas Hardy on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 216 pp. $75.00 cloth. $29.99 paper.
Over the last several years, Cambridge University Press has been steadily growing its list in the...
William Barillas. The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland.
December 22, 2006... William Barillas. The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. vii + 258pp. $39.95 cloth.
As the winner of the Midwestern Studies Book Award, sponsored by the...
Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis, eds. Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four.
December 22, 2006... Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis, eds. Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. x + 249 pp. $74.50 cloth; $24.95 paper.
This volume brings together an...