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JournalISSN: 0026-7724

Modern Fiction Studies 

Johns Hopkins University Press
About: Modern Fiction Studies is an academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Narrative & Modernism (music). It has an ISSN identifier of 0026-7724. Over the lifetime, 1755 publications have been published receiving 15473 citations. The journal is also known as: MFS & MFS: Modern Fiction Studies.


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TL;DR: The essay was originally intended to be one of the Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews, and it was, in abbreviated form, delivered there in 1938 as mentioned in this paper. But it was never published.
Abstract: This essay was originally intended to be one of the Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews, and it was, in abbreviated form, delivered there in 1938. To be invited to lecture in St. Andrews is a high compliment to any man; to be allowed to speak about fairy-stories is (for an Englishman in Scotland) a perilous honor. I felt like a conjuror who finds himself, by mistake, called upon to give a display of magic before the court of an elf-king. After producing his rabbit, such a clumsy performer may consider himself lucky, if he is allowed to go home in proper shape, or indeed to go home at all. There are dungeons in fairyland for the overbold.

373 citations

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TL;DR: Do social struggles give rise to new forms of literature, or is there more a question of the adequacy of their representation in existing narrative forms like the short story or the novel as in, for example, Gayatri Spivak's articulations of the stories of the Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi or the debate around Fredric Jameson's notion of national allegory in Third World writing?
Abstract: Do social struggles give rise to new forms of literature, or is there more a question of the adequacy of their representation in existing narrative forms like the short story or the novel as in, for example, Gayatri Spivak's articulations of the stories of the Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi or the debate around Fredric Jameson's notion of national allegory in Third World writing?2 What happens when, as in the case of Western Europe since the Renaissance, there has been a complicity between the rise of \"literature\" as a secular institution and the development of forms

202 citations

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TL;DR: This article argued that it is necessary to think anew about words and images and their expressivity in the specific cultural and historical context of the 'war on terror' by reading Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Art Speigelman's In the Shadow of No Towers.
Abstract: Recently Marianne Hirsch has argued it is necessary to think anew about words and images and their expressivity in the specific cultural and historical context of the 'war on terror'. Here Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Art Speigelman's In the Shadow of No Towers are read in terms of 'autographics': the distinctive technology and aesthetics of life narrative that emerges in the comics. Unique mediations of cultural difference occur in the grammar of comics, which make demands on the reader to navigate across gutters and frames, and shuttle between words and images, in an active process of imaginative engagement with others.

174 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202332
202252
20213
202021
201933
201829