...Lionel Stevenson The Living Novel: A Symposium . Edited by Hicks Granville . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1957 . Pp. xii , 230 . $4.50 . Three Views of the Novel . By Stone Irving O’Hara John Kantor MacKinlay . Washington : The Library of Congress , 1957...

...Jale Parla 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Jale Parla Car Narratives: A Subgenre in Turkish Novel Writing It is possible to talk about a literary preoccu- pation with cars, along with other vehicles...

...Sibel Irzık 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Sibel Irzık Allegorical Lives: The Public and the Private in the Modern Turkish Novel In Lying Down to Die [Ölmeye Yatmak], Adalet Ağaoğlu’s first novel, published in the pro...

...Nurdan Gürbilek 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Nurdan Gürbilek Dandies and Originals: Authenticity, Belatedness, and the Turkish Novel Let’s start with an impasse in our reading prac- tices. Criticism in Turkey—not only social...

...Masao Miyoshi Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D. Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 An Ancient Roman Novel By Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in Randolph-Macon College Fiction is the all-prevailing form of literature today. There is hardly a civilized nation whose literature is not now dominated...

...Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D. Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Is the Novel Decadent ? By Edwin W. Bowen, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in Randolph-Macon College The suggestion implied in the above heading will probably be regarded as little short of heresy in certain literary circles...

...W. Rolfe Brown Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Gorgo : A Great Historical Novel W. Rolfe Brown* Duke University I A personal contact with old Athens in the heyday of her glory and in the days of her waning power, a real and thrilling experience in the hard-fought battles...

...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...

...Robert L. Shurter Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE UTOPIAN NOVEL IN AMERICA, 1888-1900 ROBERT L. SHURTER PERHAPS no other type of literature records the extent of popular discontent so accurately as does the utopian novel, which has generally flourished during depression pe­...

...Morris Golden Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel . By Adams Percy G. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1983 . Pp. xi , 368 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 442 The South Atlantic Quarterly University of South Carolina...

...Lewis Leary The American Historical Novel . By Leisy Ernest E. . Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press , 1950 . Pp. x , 280 . $3.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 550 The South Atlantic Quarterly account now stands, the section on Voltaire seems...

...H. T. Parker Biography of a War Novel: Zola’s “La Débâcle” By Rufener Helen La Rue . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1946 . Pp. ix , 125 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 BOOKS Biography of a War Novel: Zola s La Debacle By Helen La Rue Rufener. New...

...Alexander Cowie Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE VOGUE OF THE DOMESTIC NOVEL 1850-1870 ALEXANDER COWIE IN 1842 William Gilmore Simms referred to Cooper s Precaution as a very feeble work, a second or third rate imitation of a very inferior school of writings, known...

...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...

...Lewis Leary The Rise of the American Novel . By Cowie Alexander . New York : The American Book Company , 1948 . Pp. xii , 877 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 147 A footnote on page 120 represents me as appearing to doubt that a large part...

...Clarence A. Manning Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 SOCIALIST REALISM AND THE AMERICAN SUCCESS NOVEL CLARENCE A. MANNING WITH LOUD BEATING of the official drums of Moscow the Soviet Union has proclaimed that the new doctrine of socialist realism is offering to the readers...