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...Paul Giles Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing . By Susan Manning. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. viii + 339 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Paul Giles is reader in American literature and director of the Rothermere American Institute at...

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...David Huntsperger Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes . By David LeHardy Sweet. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Department of Romance Languages, 2003. 318 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005...

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...Paul Giles Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . By Wai Chee Dimock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 243 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Paul Giles is professor of American literature at Oxford University. His most recent book...

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