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1. Asian Encounters: Hybridity, Female Inheritance, and Intertextuality in Fiona Kidman's Songs from the Violet Café.

Author

D'CRUZ, DOREEN

Subjects
*FICTION
Abstract

A literary criticism of the book "Songs from the Violet Café" by Fiona Kidman is presented. Topics include considered that the fascination with China and the occasional Chinese character fill the backdrop to Songs from the Violet Café, yet the actual Asian setting the novel features is Cambodia after the fall of the Pol Pot regime.

Published
2021

2. The Automobile as an Epistemological Question in John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra.

Author

JUAREZ, LUIGI A.

Subjects
*PROBABILITY in literature, *AUTOMOBILES in literature, *THEORY of knowledge, *FICTION
Abstract

The article discusses the verisimilitude of automobiles in the 1934 novel "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara. Topics include the views of George J. Becker on the realist novel, the sociological realism of O'Hara by focusing his narrative attention to the car in his novel, and how his fiction tested the readers' knowledge about automobiles.

Published
2020

3. Letting In the Right Let the Right One In: Sympathy for the Making of Fictional Sympathy.

Author

LEWIS, MICHAEL JAY

Subjects
*FICTION, *METAPHYSICS, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article comments on the book "The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of Ethical and Emotional Persuasion," by Howard Sklar. Topics include the conflation (or close comparison) of fictional and nonfictional narrative reflects an equivocation of fictionalities that appear to operate on discrete discursive (if not metaphysical) planes, and the accession of fiction's distinction as integral to the interpretation of sympathetic depiction.

Published
2018