... it. This essay hypothesizes that postmodern theories of truth and concomitant transformations in reader sensibilities partly account for the legitimization and now dominance of biofiction. The essay analyzes a 1968 literary debate among Ralph Ellison, William Styron, and Robert Penn Warren, which on the surface...

... Publishing in Two Centuries”; Herbert M. Schueller, “An American in Rome: The Experiments of W. W. Story”; Frederick J. Hoffman, “The Cure of ‘Nothing The Fiction of William Styron”; Ray B. Browne, “Zsruel Potter: Metamorphosis of Superman”; James Sandoe, “Charlie, a Little Fellow...

..., “An American in Rome: The Experiments of W. W. Story”; Frederick J. Hoffman, “The Cure of ‘Nothing The Fiction of William Styron”; Ray B. Browne, “Zsruel Potter: Metamorphosis of Superman”; James Sandoe, “Charlie, a Little Fellow”; Leslie A. Fiedler, “The New Western: or, The Return...

... theater. The suggestion of a bed into which to jump, after a due ritual of preparations, has been abandoned to Achard, Marceau, and the new boulevardiers. Or else, as in Tennessee Williams and other Anglo-Saxons who seem to be terrified by “the lineaments of gratified desire” once praised...