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... Fiction in the Twenty-First Century . By Irr Caren . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2014 . viii, 264 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; paper, $32.00 ; e-book, $31.99 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 We are at a moment in which the overview as a critical genre has a new, even...

... Hart Crane’s Poetry. By John T. Irwin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2011. xiv, 424 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $34.95. Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. By Brian M. Reed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2013. xix, 222 pp. $45.00. At the outset of his...

...Hilary E. Wyss In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery . By Kolodny Annette . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xvii , 426 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $27.95 . That Dream Shall Have...