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This paper will analyse the construction of childhood in three post-disaster texts for young readers: Ruth Hooker's Kennaquhair, Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah, and Hugh Scott's Why Weeps the [...]

I want to begin with a claim so basic it scarcely needs to be made: Hemingway's early stories--those of In Our Time and Men Without Women--are full of sick and [...]

IN HIS 2003 ARTICLE 'IS THE NOVEL DEAD?' MARK Mordue put forward the thesis that fiction is in trouble and literary nonfiction is taking its place. I have edited both [...]

In 1672 a pseudonymous author, Philaquila, published The History of the Golden Eagle, a short work of prose fiction that was republished in 1677 and again in 1700. For all [...]

Les Fous de Bassan was published in 1982 and won Anne Hebert the Prix Femina, previously awarded to Gabrielle Roy for her novel Bonheur d'occasion. Hebert's novel is about the [...]

In 1998, Editions Lemeac (in a co-publication with Actes Sud) reissued Ying Chen's highly regarded Les Lettres chinoises, which it had originally published in 1993. This reissue, which carries the [...]

Reading contemporary American fiction, one may assume that great innovators such as Donald Barthelme, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein, among others, have made a negligible impact on the form, which [...]

Not a just image, just an image.--Jean-Luc Godard Already with its puzzling title, Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things poses the question of the relations between two categories of [...]

The Russian production novel, featuring construction of factories, bridges, and socialist skyscrapers, was a Soviet favourite of the late 1920s and 1930s. This essay rejects the binary model commonly applied [...]

Though Baudelaire's 'Dedicace Arsene Houssaye' provides a dubious manifesto of the prose poem genre, (1) it more importantly builds a network of repeated images and allusions from which, along with [...]

In 1885 the Congo Free State was established by King Leopold of Belgium, with himself as absolute monarch and principal stockholder of the company that would exploit the territory's extraordinary [...]

This article discusses the writing of ethnographic and creative fiction in sociological sport. The author examines why researchers would want to write ethnographic or creative fiction and some of the risks it poses, maintaining fictional representation is a response to postmodern perspectives and offers something new and refreshing to the field, however, risks being not credible.

This article discusses the manner in which politics, science, and biography were portrayed in the fiction of C.P. Snow. Topics include imagery, communism, and academia.

Cynthia Ozick established the prevailing critical context for interpreting her fiction when she rather controversially claimed that no fiction produced by Jews in the Diaspora has had lasting value except [...]

From the seventies onwards, francophone African women writers have published a steady stream of novels exploring the highs and lows of the human condition. With good reason, critics have seen [...]

This article discusses the manner in which women are portrayed in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Topics include New England history, social class, sex role, and internal narrative.

What ghosts can say- Even the ghosts of fathers--comes obscurely. What if the terror stays without the meaning? --Adrienne Rich, 'What Ghosts Can Say' No justice [...] seems possible or [...]

Sociological research shows that individuals attempt to make sense of the meaning of the ageing process in the course of conversations with other people. The social construction of ageing is therefore an interactive process during which ideas and beliefs about ageing are negotiated and exchanged. Novels arc a rich and easily accessible source of data on the social construction of the meaning of ageing during the course of social interaction and this paper explores the imaginative contribution of the English novelist Stanley Middleton to our awareness of these subtle processes. It is suggested that Middleton's fiction provides a particularly rewarding example of the contribution of the novelist to our understanding of the origins of the experience of growing older as a product of social interaction. KEY WORDS -- Fictional images, social interaction, narratives, age consciousness.

IN A RECENT (1996) INTERVIEW WITH HILIT YESHURUM, an Israeli journalist and translator, Mahmud Darwish, a leading Palestinian poet, discussed the indefinable borderlines between Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab identities. […]

In the five years since Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace (1996) appeared, a number of readers have been attracted to the implications of the quilting trope. Each of the novel's [...]

In several of her novels, Margaret Atwood offers a clear picture of Toronto. That picture is so accurate that, when the Modern Language Association met in Toronto in 1997, The [...]

Issues concerning Indian novelist R.K. Narayan are discussed from an Indian point of view. Narayan's works and his characters are examined and his contribution to Indian literature is described.

(Translated from the Dutch by Bernd Jager, Universite du Quebec a Montreal) ABSTRACT The author draws attention to a modern technique of narration that inverts the meaning of ancient myths [...]

An introduction to the fiction and poetry in this issue is presented. A discussion of the material's arrangement, thematic interpretation, and categorization is also presented.

The fiction of David Foster Wallace as antidote to postmodern irony is examined, focusing on Wallace's admiration of 19th-century English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who created original poetic forms within a disciplined structure. Topics include the responsibility writers owe readers and Wallace's novel, 'The Infinite Jest.'

'Harlequin,' C.G. Jung wrote, 'gives me the creeps,' due to the ambiguous nature of the archetype. As a result, Jung was unable to determine whether or not Harlequin as an [...]

This article defines 'literary materiality' and discusses how it is portrayed Martial's fiction. Topics include irony, social criticism, genre, poetics, and satire.

Among the several ways of looking at Alexandria, one is represented by Edmund Keeley's critical book, Cavafy's Alexandria, which condemns the city as 'squalid.' Another approach, even less generous and [...]

Part of the resonance of John Updike's Rabbit saga comes from the cast of characters that continues to reappear in the novels, either directly or through flashback. By braiding and [...]

The question of blame in Emilia Pardo Bazan's La madre naturaleza is considered in the light of Foucault's opposition between a society based on spectacle and one based on panopticism. According to Discipline and Punish, the spectacle yielded to the panopticism as the bourgeoisie wrested power from the monarchy. Don Pedro, 'king' of the Pazos de Ulloa, it is argued, runs his estate in accordance with Foucault's account of monarchical spectacle and although Pardo Bazan depicts this affectionately, it is shown to contribute to the protagonists' misfortunes. Thus, the author gives fictional form to her ambivalence towards Spain's need to modernize itself., The role played by propositions in Michel Foucault's notion of panopticism in Discipline and Punish, is examined., La madre naturaleza is the story of a no-win situation: Manuela and Perucho's love is doomed and even if Gabriel Lage had never gone to the Pazos and brought matters [...]

A resume is presented of the best-selling novel 'Shitsurakuen' by Watanabe Junichi, in which the two main protagonists have an adulterous affair, and which gave adultery a fashionable prestige.

Narrative 'voice' in the novel is discussed, focusing on how voice can illuminate differences between narrative theory and novel theory in literary criticism. Writers discussed include Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Christa Wolf, and Gustav Flaubert, and critics discussed include Georg Lukacs, M.M. Bakhtin, and Fredric Jameson.

An analysis is presented on the contextual sophistication of children's literature, such as contradiction, conflict and ambiguity, which explains the literature's continued appeal once readers become adults. Also included is a discussion on the subjective and perceptual complexity of children.

An argument is presented supporting a redefinition of the novel as a genre to allow a broader interpretation of narrative, or metanarrative, which encompasses a wide range of social values, cultures, and points of view.

An analysis is presented on the novel both as a literary genre and as a simple format of writing, using defining traits evinced by Ian Watt in 'The Rise of the Novel'. Topics include character development, audience demand and value of content versus market strategy.