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The Riddling Effect: Rules and Unruliness in the Work of Harry Mathews

Michael Boyden reflects on the stubborn and idiosyncratic fiction of Harry Mathews and introduces a new ebr gathering of work on and by Mathews.

The Gesture of Explanation Without Intelligibility: Ronald Schleifer’s Analogical Thinking

The Database, the Interface, and the Hypertext: A Reading of Strickland’s V

Black Postmodernism

Amy J. Elias reviews Madhu Dubey's second book Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism and gauges the argument that we can locate within literary history a distinctive African American strain of postmodernism.

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Perloff reviews another theorist of a different kind of ‘difficult whole,’ Franco Moretti and his Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez, in ebr 1998.

Perloff reviews another theorist of a different kind of ‘difficult whole,’ Franco Moretti and his Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez, in ebr 1998.

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Conte, who like McHale has published books on both novelistic and poetic genres, is reviewed by Joseph Tabbi in ebr 2004.

Conte, who like McHale has published books on both novelistic and poetic genres, is reviewed by Joseph Tabbi in ebr 2004.

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The generative aesthetic in fiction and poetry, and at least one example of generative writing by Paul Braffort, can be found in the ebr 1999/2000 special on Writing Under Constraint.

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