... Mitchell Trust's accusation of copyright infringement took advantage of the fair use doctrine in US copyright law, which protects the literary communication of free, political speech. While Houghton Mifflin was ultimately successful—insofar as it won a favorable verdict from a court of appeals, settled out...

...: Wesleyan UP, 1994 . 21 –58. Dubey , Madhu . Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003 . Griffin , Farah Jasmine . “Who Set You Flowin’?”: The African-American Migration Narrative . New York: Oxford UP, 1995 . Lemire , Elise . “‘The Murders...

...Clemens Spahr As closely as the issues of representation, ethics, and politics were connected in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the scholarly debate over its literary representations soon shifted to questions of trauma and commemoration, a shift in emphasis that often displaced concerns...

...PAUL GILES JOHN CARLOS ROWE, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 377, cloth, $55.00, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Imperial Literary Culture JOHN CARLOS...

.... This article focuses on literary portraiture in the Jesus novel, a genre of historical fiction that emerged independently in different national literatures from the 1830s onward alongside several parallel developments, including the secularization of biblical scholarship, the rediscovery of early Christian...

... , Hsuan L. “Literature and Regional Production.” American Literary History 17 . 1 (Spring 2005 ): 36 –69. ———. “New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development.” A Companion to the Modern American Novel . Ed. Matthews , John T. . Oxford: Blackwell, 2009 . 218 –39. Jameson...

... American fiction, alongside his claim that a certain form of affective fallacy is at play within Native American literary criticism, Treuer seems relatively disinterested in real-world situations or contexts. In response, the essay examines his particular emphasis on “artistry” and “style” and questions...

.... and trans. Wolff Kurt H. . New York : Free Press , 1950 . Reviews Reading Culture through a Literary Lens cynthia tolentino, America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009), pp. 200, cloth...

...David Chioni Moore JAY PAUL , Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2010 ), pp. 248 , cloth, $65.00 , paper, $19.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Full-Spectrum Global Literary Studies PAUL...

... of constraining narrative frames that have limited the reception of African novels written by women. A transformative intervention in African literary historiography, this trailblazing study simultaneously attends to the political dimension of novels, which Andrade illuminates in the tension between feminist...

... Women's Fiction purports to interweave two stories. The one pointed out by the clause after the colon is easier to phrase: the volume seeks to relate the rise of Hebrew women's fiction. With only a handful of writers to boast for much of the twentieth century, marginalized and belittled by literary...

...Maurizia Boscagli The way cultural theory, literary textuality, and historical analysis merge on page after page is perhaps the most striking quality of Dini's book. Because of the extensive repertoire of texts it considers, “All-Electric” Narratives is an invaluable source for current...

... . New York : Anchor , 2012 . Smith Zadie . “Two Paths for the Novel.” New York Review of Books 18 Nov. 2008 < http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/nov/20/two-paths-for-the-novel/ >. Literary Merit, Authenticity, and the Contemporary Canon NICK TURNER, Post...

... Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2010 . Reviews Literary and/as Literacy Studies BIRGIT BRANDER RASMUSSEN, Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Litera­ ture (Durham...

...Monica F. Cohen This essay seeks to situate Anthony Trollope's short 1866 novel Nina Balatka in the context of the market conditions that characterized Victorian literary entertainment. These market conditions, which included a proliferating number of reprinting vehicles, accommodated copying...

... it was recovered, published in book form, and lauded as an original and meritorious text. One year later, a front-page article in the weekly Le nationaliste (Montreal, 1904–24) revealed that Le manoir mystérieux was a plagiarism of Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Since then, few literary historians have...

...Rosemary Marangoly George This essay argues that tracking Kamala Markandaya's literary career enables us to see, in retrospect, some of the blind spots of the postcolonial literary critical frame within which we have situated novels produced by third-world writers in the twentieth century...

...Peter D. McDonald When J. Hilllis Miller first coined the phrase “the ethics of reading” in the mid-1980s, it constituted a decisive intervention in the overheated debates about the merits of deconstruction, inaugurating the so-called ethical turn within Anglo-American literary studies. Yet it also...

... noted the significance for the novel, for American letters, and for literary and critical studies, even as black women writers like Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, and Gayl Jones—together with a rising body of black feminist scholars and critics—had been engaged...

.... The article also poses the question of what it would mean to approach literary artifacts as forms of language-in-use similar to talk, finding inspiration in Proust's Recherche for elaborating an answer to that question. Attention to nonsemantic, pragmatic, indexical features of talk (habits of pronunciation...