MFS Home
Index Home

Modern Fiction Studies: A Searchable Index


Volume 27 - 1981


[Issue 1  2  3  4].

Issue 1

Guest Editor: Shaun F. D. Hughes
Special Issue: Modern New Zealand and Australian Fiction

Author Title Pages
Shaun F. D. Hughes An Editor's Preface: ". . . Scanning the Land for a Feasible Dog" 3-12
Shaun F. D. Hughes Pakeha and Maori behind the Tattooed Face: The Emergence of a Polynesian Voice in New Zealand Fiction 13-30
P. D. Evans "Farthest from the Heart": The Autobiographical Parables of Janet Frame 31-44
Helen Daniel The Aborigine in Australian Fiction Stereotype to Archetype? 45-60
John Scheckter The Lost Child in Australian Fiction 61-72
Brian Kiernan Frank Moorhouse: A Retrospective 73-94
John B. Beston The Theme of Reconciliation in Stow's To the Islands 95-108
Marian Arkin Literary Transvestism in Eve Langley's The Pea-Pickers 109-120
Thomas L. Warren Patrick White: The Early Novels 121-140
Susan A. Wood The Power and Failure of "Vision" in Patrick White's Voss 141-158
Manly Johnson Twyborn: The Abbess, the Bulbul, and the Bawdy House 159-172
Shaun F. D. Hughes Neat Books, Eh! Recent Academic Forays into Antipodean Fiction 173-188
Rose Marie Beston and John B. Beston Critical Writings on Modern New Zealand and Australian Fiction: A Selected Checklist 189-204

 

Issue 2

Editors: Margaret Church and William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author Title Pages
D. H. Fussell "Do You Like Poe, Mr. Hardy?" 211-224
Victor Strandberg Passion and Delusion in A Book of Common Prayer 225-242
Arnold E. Davidson Canadian Gothic and Anne Hébert's Kamouraska 243-254
Thomas E. Connolly Point of View in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! 255-272
Lawrence D. Joiner and Joseph W. Zdenek Art, Renunciation, and Religious Imagery in Proust and Azorin 273-277
Maria Banerjee "The American Revolver": An Essay on Dostoevsky's The Devils 278-283
Eleanor B. Wymard "A New Version of the Midas Touch": Daniel Martin and The World According to Garp 284-286
Jeffrey L. Meikle "Other Frequencies": The Parallel Worlds of Thomas Pynchon and H. P. Lovecraft 287-294
John V. Knapp Orwell's Fiction: Funny but not Vulgar 294-301
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 303-424

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor: A. A. DeVitis
Special Issue: Anthony Burgess

Author Title Pages
A. A. DeVitis Editor's Preface 427-428
Samuel Coale An Interview with Anthony Burgess 429-452
Samuel Coale The Ludic Loves of Anthony Burgess 453-464
Timothy R. Lucas The Old Shelley Game: Prometheus & Predestination in Burgess' Works 465-478
Philip E. Ray Alex Before and After: A New Approach to Burgess' A Clockwork Orange 479-488
James I. Bly Sonata Form in Tremor of Intent 489-504
John J. Stinson Better to Be Hot or Cold: 1985 and the Dynamic of the Manichean Duoverse 505-516
Geoffrey Aggeler Faust in the Labyrinth: Burgess' Earthly Powers 517-532
Samuel Coale Criticism of Anthony Burgess: A Selected Checklist 533-536

 

Issue 4

Editors: Margaret Church and William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author Title Pages
Ben Stoltzfus Dead, Desacralized, and Discontent: Robbe-Grillet's New Man 543-554
Timothy Steele The Structure of the Detective Story: Classical or Modern? 555-570
Morton P. Levitt The Novels of B. S. Johnson: Against the War against Joyce 571-586
Thomas LeClair William Gaddis, JR, & the Art of Excess 587-600
Kulwant Singh Gill Aldous Huxley: The Quest for Synthetic Sainthood 601-612
Frederick Ramey Words in the Service of Silence: Preverbal Language in Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent 613-621
Thomas L. Kent Epistemological Uncertainty in The Red Badge of Courage 621-628
Joseph Allen Boone The Meaning of Elvedon in The Waves: A Key to Bernard's Experience and Woolf's Vision 629-637
Walter F. Kolonosky Perception and Perspectives: The Function of Windows in Doctor Zhivago 638-646
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 647-770
  Author and Subject Index: Volume 27 771-774

MFS Home
Index Home