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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.

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.

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.

The article reviews the exhibition "Henry James and American Painting" at the Morgan Library in New York on June 9 to September 10, 2017.

A critique is presented of the book "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason, focusing on themes of the therapeutic aspects of memory, the unconscious mind, and the idea of the talking cure in psychotherapy. Vietnam veteran characters in the novel, a trip to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and repressed memories are discussed, as well as themes of trauma, self-healing, and symbols in the novel.

The article presents information on the literary works of Jean Rhys, a writer. Her texts deals the issue of alcoholism which was a dominant issue in the early-twentieth-century society and the status of women in the society. Her novels suggests that women drinkers might choose addiction and refuse a recovery that would only return them to the circumstances against which they were protesting in the first place. She had a drinking problem throughout her adult life. Indeed, she could hardly have avoided it.

The article presents information on the literary works of Algernon Blackwood, a writer. He is celebrated as one of the most prolific and erudite authors of his generation, he was a writer of great subtlety and skill. He wrote several short stories, novels, poems, plays, a well received autobiography, several children's books, and even early radio and television scripts. He was particularly successful at conveying the mystery and terror of a strange world. It also presents information on some of his very popular literary works.

The article presents information on the novel "Fools of Fortune," by William Trevor. The novel portrays the return of Willie Quinn, a character, to the remnants of his ancestral home Kilneagh in County Cork, Ireland, burnt by British Black and Tan soldiers some 60 years before. The final, two-page section of the novel opens with an another character, Imelda's parents walking past the mulberry trees at Kilneagh, talking mostly about their former classmates, but, significantly, they were not speaking of other matters.

Presents a literary analysis of the book "Salome," by Oscar Wilde, which focuses on the status of Salome as an object of desire. Description of the character Salome; Desire of Salome for Jokanaan; Comparison between Wilde's novels "Salome" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

Explores the Satanic and serpentine imagery surrounding the character in the book "The Confidence-Man," by Herman Melville. Comparison of the novel's protagonist with John Milton's Satan; Significance of Milton's book "Paradise Lost"; References to Milton in Melville's fiction.

Presents information on the influence of author William Faulkner to the work of Elias Canetti. Awards received by Canetti; Elements of his work that are anticipated in Faulkner's writing; Information on Canetti's theory of social interaction; Examples of Faulkner's novels.

Examines how the interplay between visual and tactile knowledge both stimulates and constitutes masculine desire in several novels. 'Metamorphoses,' by Ovid; 'Pandosto,' by Robert Greene; 'The Winter's Tale.'

Examines the connection between 'Charlotte Temple' and the 'Legend of Inkle and Yarico'. Comparison on the theme of the novels; Criticisms on the 'Legend of Inkle and Yarico'; Details on the development of the legend to a play.

Looks at Cranfordism in the novel `The Scraps, Patches, and Rags of Daily Life,' by Elizabeth Gaskell. Examples of Cranfordism in the novel; Rasselas as the oriental context of the novel; Cranford and the domestication of the oriental other.

Discusses ethical exegesis in the novel `The Rise of Silas Lapham,' by William Dean Howells. Assessment of the central character, Silas Lapham; Character tests on Lapham; Moral evaluation of the novel.

Focuses on the novel `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which deals with the society. Importance of considering culture in using the historicism approach to interpret the novel; Significance of religious and social milieux in Stowe's works; Explanation on American individualism.

Analyzes the use of letter form by author Eliza Haywood in eighteenth century which contributed to the evolution of English prose fiction into novel. Haywood's most significant early epistolary work; Evidence of narrative technique provided by Haywood's use of letters; Theme explored in the fiction 'Familiar Letters.'

Analyzes psychoanalytical aspects of the relationship between protagonists Lady Chatterley and Bolton in D. H. Lawrence's fiction 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.' Reasons why the erotics of Chatterley-Bolton affair has not provoked comments similar to those evoked by Chatterley's relationship with Oliver Mellors; Manifestation of Freudian pattern in progress of Chatterley-Bolton affair.

Presents the dramatic method used by Virginia Woolf in the novel 'Between the Acts.' Description of the novel's final episode; Impression of inner distance and alienation in the novel; Opposition of Woolf against materialism in fiction.

Deals with the gothic fiction works of William Styron. Theme underlying Styron's fiction; Comparison of imagery in the endings of his novels; Problem posed by his thematic hopes; Presence of fiction guilt over Styron's world.

Explores the unpublished short novel 'Blankenship,' by William Styron. Components of the autobiographical basis of the novel; Background of the novel; Similarities of 'Blankenship' with his other novel 'The Long March'; Themes underlying Styron's literary works.

Presents information on the representation of the novel 'The Sisters,' by James Joyce as an introduction to his other novel 'Dubliners.' Genre of the two novels; Background of the characters; Overview of the openendedness of a literal ellipsis.

Examines the effect on art of different temperaments realistically projecting visions of life through the same environment as portrayed in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding. Genre of their novels; Background of their characters; Career background of the two authors.

Focuses on the literary significance of the perceived incomplete novel ' The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,' by Edgar Allan Poe. Genre of the story; Revelation of horrific and supernatural occurrences in the novel; Linkage of the details of Pym's adventures to some mythic structure.

Examines the structure of the novel 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveller,' by Italo Calvino. Discussion of the narrative order of the book; Difficulty faced by readers in establshing the beginning of a story.

Focuses on the deliberate sharing of images, characters and incidents between the novels 'Brideshead Revisited' and 'Sword of Honour' trilogy. Discussion of the literary techniques of 'Brideshead Revisited'; Analysis of the portrayal of the 'Sword of Honour' of the figure of Sir Roger; Liturgical imagery within the novels.

Focuses on the novel 'Tom Jones,' by Fielding. Objective in writing the novel; Background on the creation of the novel; Theme of the novel.

Comments on the review of Ralph Griffiths of the novel 'The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom,' by Tobias Smollett. Description of the novel according to Griffiths; Views on the novel; Opinion on the writings of Smollett.

Examines the mystery novel 'Caleb Williams.' Overview of the novel; Opinion on the original ending of the story; Attitude of the fictitious character Williams toward Falkland.

Presents information on the novel 'The Ambassadors.' Discussion on the makeshift mythologies Strether; Details on the various kinds of talk in the novel; Importance of finding the names of things in the novel.

Examines the representation of love and courtship in the novel 'The Rainbow,' by D.H. Lawrence. Overview of the novel; Analysis of the characters of the novel; Evaluation of the portrayal of men and women in the novel.

Discusses the representation of social progress in the novel 'The Mayor of Casterbridge,' by Thomas Hardy. Overview of the novel; Analysis of the characters of the novel; Information on the conclusion of the novel.

Discusses the focus on cosmic flux in the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut. Comments on recycling characters from one novel to another; Views on Vonnegut as a writer; Relation of the cosmic flux to Heraclitus' world of cosmic flux.

Explores the effect of structure of the fiction narrative on its narrative design. Role of narrative in the human mind and experience; Characteristics of linguistic form; Relationship of subject to predicates in narrative; Cognitive purpose of the fictive narrative.

Discusses the use of the morality of desire in the novel 'Dubin's Lives,' written by Bernard Malamud. Position of Malamud on the result of moral commitment drained of desire; Effect or romantic yearning in the fiction; Other novels written by Malamud.

Discusses the use of doubletalk and doubles talk in the novel 'The Golden Notebook,' written by Doris Lessing. Description of the main characters in the novel; Views on the constants in the conception of third persons; Opinion on names used in the fiction.

Discusses the use of classical myths, mystery and mechanisms of determinism in the interpretations of human freedom in the fiction of Iris Murdoch. Opinion on the relationship between love and freedom; Description on human freedom in the essay 'Good'; Position of Murdoch on marriage.

Discusses the novel 'Edna His Wife,' written by Margaret Ayer Barnes. Plot of the novel; Characteristics of the main character of the story; Views on the portrayal of the character of the husband in the novel.

Discusses the theme of the dead father in several novels written by Charles Dickens. Version of Sigmund Freud on the affinity of the father with death; Details on the relationship between Dickens and his father; Aim of the father-son economic in the narratives.

Deals with the formal analysis of traditional fictions. Formula for the structure of mythic narratives by Levi-Strauss; Formal description of narrative structure and technique; Way to test theoretical adequacy.

Analyzes the various temporal frequencies and durations, which are prominent aspects of time, depicted in the book 'The Beast in the Jungle,' by Henry James. Definitions of duration and frequency; Examination of the interplay of frequencies in the story; Distribution of singulative sequences into specific and summary presentations in the novel.

Discusses the novels of Muriel Spark. Scope and merit of her works; Literary genealogy of her work agenda; Overview of her novel 'The Public Image.'

Discusses the allusions and quotations in the novel 'Travels With My Aunt,' by Graham Greene. Sources of the allusions and quotations; Features of the novel; Information on the allusions to the novel 'Rob Roy.'

Examines the allusions to poet Robert Browning in the novel 'The Dead,' by James Joyce. Overview of the novel; Background of the lead character Gabriel Conroy; Details on the speech delivered by Gabriel Conroy.