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Volume 33 - 1987


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editors: Brooke K. Horvath and William J. Palmer
Special Issue: Modern Sports Fiction

Author Title Pages
  Contributors 2
Brooke K. Horvath and William J. Palmer Preface 3-8
Michael Oriard From Jane Allen to Water Dancer: A Brief History of the Feminist (?) Sports Novel 9-20
Allen Guttmann Faustian Athletes? Sports as a Theme in Modern German Literature 21-34
William Hutchings The Work of Play: Anger and the Expropriate Athletes of Alan Sillitoe and David Storey 35-48
Eric Solomon Counter-Ethnicity and the Jewish-Black Baseball Novel: The Cases of Jerome Charyn and Jay Neugeboren 49-64
Alfred F. Boe Street Games in J. D. Salinger and Gerald Green 65-72
Wiley Lee Umphlett The Black Man as Fictional Athlete: Runner Mack, the Sporting Myth, and the Failure of the American Dream 73-84
Christian K. Messenger Norman Mailer: Boxing and the Art of His Narrative 85-104
Thomas LeClair Deconstructing the Logos: Don DeLillo's End Zone 105-124
David L. Vanderwerken Dan Jenkins' Needle 125-134
Richard Alan Schwartz Postmodernist Baseball 135-150
Robert Cochran Bang the Drum Differently: The Southpaw Slants of Henry Wiggen 151-160
Roy C. Caldwell, Jr. Of Hobby-Horses, Baseball, and Narrative: Coover's Universal Baseball Association 161-172
Neil Randall Shoeless Joe: Fantasy and the Humor of Fellow-Feeling 173-182
Brooke K. Horvath and William J. Palmer Three On: An Interview with David Carkeet, Mark Harris, and W. P. Kinsella 183-195

 

Issue 2

Editor: William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author Title Pages
  Contributors 200
Richard Cronin The Indian English Novel: Kim and Midnight's Children 201-214
Biyot K. Tripathy End-Game: Terminal Configurations in Bellow's Novels 215-232
Martin Bock De Quincey, Rifacimento, and the Fictionalizing of Malcolm Lowry 233-244
Lorraine Liscio Burger's Daughter: Lighting a Torch in the Heart of Darkness 245-262
Milton J. Bates Tim O'Brien's Myth of Courage 263-380
Michele Frucht Levy D. H. Lawrence and Dostoevsky: The Thirst for Risk and the Thirst for Life 281-289
Jon Wallace Speaking against the Dark: Style as Theme in Thomas McGuane's Nobody's Angel 289-298
  Correspondence 299-302
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 303-404

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor: Clayton Koelb
Special Issue: Narrative Theory

Author Title Pages
  Contributors 406
Clayton Koelb Preface 407-412
Liliane Weissberg Editing Adventures: Writing the Text of Julius Rodman 413-430
Karen McPherson Absalom, Absalom! Telling Scratches 431-450
Peter Hühn The Detective as Reader: Narrativity and Reading Concepts in Detective Fiction 451-466
Steven G. Kellman The Cinematic Novel: Tracking a Concept 467-478
Eric Heyne Toward a Theory of Literary Nonfiction 479-490
Thomas M. Leitch For (Against) a Theory of Rereading 491-508
Clayton Koelb The Story in the Image: Rhetoric and Narrative Invention 509-522
Nilli Diengott The Mimetic Language Game and Two Typologies of Narrators 523-534
Ian MacKenzie Narratology and Thematics 535-544
Virgil L. Lokke Narratology, Obsolescent Paradigms, and "Scientific" Poetics; or, Whatever Happened to PTL? 545-558
Suresh Raval Recent Books on Narrative Theory: An Essay-Review 559-570

 

Issue 4

Editor: William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author Title Pages
Brian Boyd The Problem of Pattern: Nabokov's Defense 575-604
Stanley Corkin Sister Carrie and Industrial Life: Objects and the New American Self 605-620
John Haegert Autobiography as Fiction: The Example of Stop-time 621-638
Christof Wegelin Art and Life in James's "The Middle Years" 639-646
Gordon E. Slethaug Floating Signifiers in John Barth's Sabbatical 647-656
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 657-772
  Author and Subject Index, Volume 33 773-776

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