Figures and Facts

  • David E. Shi
    Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920. Oxford University Press
  • David Fishelov
    Metaphors of Genre: The Role of Analogies in Genre Theory. University of Pennsylvania Press
Reviewed by Diane Stiles
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This review “Figures and Facts” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 126-128.

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