... UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BLACKBURN The Living Novel: A Symposium. Edited by Granville Hicks. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. xii, 230. $4.50. Three Views of the Novel. By Irving Stone, John O Hara, and MacKinlay Kantor. Washington: The Library of Congress, 1957. Pp. 41. $0.25. The novel is ordinarily...

...Julia Hell Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Julia Hell Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival Perhaps a dead father would have been A better father. The best father Is a stillborn father. Heiner Muller, 1959 iA few months before the German...

...Masao Miyoshi Masao Miyoshi Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the Postmodern West1 Every experience of reading a marginal text is at least potentially upsetting. When a third world text is read in the first world, the sense of unfamiliarity is often marked, and the reader s...

...Marianna De Marco Torgovnick Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Marianna De Marco Torgovnick The Godfather as the World s Most Typical Novel Godfather appeared in March of 1969 and made publishing history: it rose quickly on the best-seller lists and stayed on those lists...

...Daniel R. Schwarz Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Importance of E. M. Forster s Aspects of the Novel Daniel R. Schwarz E. M. Forster s Aspects of the Novel (Vffl) remains a cornerstone of Anglo-American novel criticism. Forster s study helped define the values and questions...

...Philip D. Beidler Truth-Telling and Literary Values in the Vietnam Novel Philip D. Beidler The most successful novels of the Vietnam war, works such as David Halberstam s One Very Hot Day, Josiah Bunting s The Lionheads, William Eastlake s The Bamboo Bed, and Charles Durden s No Bugles, No Drums,1...

...John M. Aden Epic to Novel . By Maresca Thomas E. . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1974 . Pp. 238 . $11.00 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 267 graces of style did not incorporate so many aggressively and awk­ wardly split infinitives...

...Lodwick Hartley Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England . By Spacks Patricia Myer . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. 342 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 258 South Atlantic Quarterly Gallaher concludes...

...Michael F. Shugrue Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Sincerest Form of Flattery Imitation in the Early Eighteenth-Century Novel Michael F. Shugrue On television, in motion pictures, and in a flood of paperback books media as recently acquired by today s mass audience...

...Roger Bowen The Nature Novel From Hardy to Lawrence . By Alcorn John . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . Pp. x , 139 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 252 The South Atlantic Quarterly ethnic but rather those who were intellectually superior...

... that it forms a unity. It is many-sided, challenging, sometimes dense, always stimulating. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PARDON E. TILLINGHAST The Myth of the Picaro: Continuity and Transformation in the Pic­ aresque Novel, 1554-1954. By Alexander Blackburn. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. x...

...Peter W. Graham George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation . By Mintz Alan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1978 . Pp. 193 . $11.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 118 The South Atlantic Quarterly of Faulkner have known that from the beginning; so...

...Arlin Turner Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers . By Smith Henry Nash . New York : Oxford University Press , 1978 . Pp. viii , 204 . $13.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 530 The South Atlantic Quarterly stores; yet...

...James Olney Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The African Novel in Transition: Chinua Achebe James Olney Chinua Achebe, who is probably the most highly regarded novelist of West Africa and perhaps of all of black Africa, presents the student of African literature...

...David K. Kirby Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Novel of Manners in America . By Tuttleton James W. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1972 . Pp. [ xvi ], 304 . $10.00 . Book Reviews 169 The Poetry of John Crowe Ransom. By Miller...

...Lionel Stevenso The Classic British Novel , edited by Harper Howard M. Jr. Edge Charles ( Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press , 1972 , $10.00 ) Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews m that this transfigured beauty had foundation...

...Terence Martin The Early American Novel . By Petter Henri . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1971 . Pp. xiii , 500 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 438 The South Atlantic Quarterly the poet. This full scholarly biography is an eloquent...

...Robert F. Durden Marie: or slavery in the united states. A Novel of Jacksonian America . By de Beaumont Gustave . Translated by Chapman Barbara with an introduction by Alvis L. Tinnin. Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1958 . Pp. xvii , 252 . $4.95 . Copyright © 1959...

...B. R. Jordan Balzac and the Novel . By Rogers Samuel . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1953 . Pp. 206 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews Balzac and the Novel. By Samuel Rogers. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1953...

...Grover Smith Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel. By Robert Humphrey. Perspectives in Criticism: No. 3 . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1954 . Pp. viii , 127 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 154 The South Atlantic...