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Part One: The Imagination and Its Obstacles |
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Harry Potter and the Fear of Not Flying |
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3 | (14) |
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A Book of Virtues for the Right-thinking Left |
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17 | (9) |
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Seize the Day Job: Sacrificing Saul Bellow on the Altar of One's Own Career |
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26 | (22) |
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Persecution and the Art of Painting |
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48 | (31) |
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Prophets of Profit: How Artists Slyly Critique Their Wealthy Patrons |
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79 | (5) |
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84 | (21) |
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Barbara Kingsolver's Icy Virtue |
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105 | (26) |
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131 | (8) |
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139 | (12) |
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151 | (10) |
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Part Three: Love Me Tonight? |
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D. H. Lawrence and the Romantic Option |
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161 | (9) |
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Who Is Carrie Bradshaw Really Dating? |
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170 | (12) |
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The Gay Science: Queer Theory, Literature, and the Sexualization of Everything |
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182 | (33) |
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Eyes Wide Shut: What the Critics Failed to See in Kubrick's Last Film |
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215 | (17) |
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Garcia Lorca and the Flight from Desire |
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232 | (11) |
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Part Four: Life in the Paim of Art's Hand |
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Dante and the Subversive Ego |
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243 | (17) |
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Sundays with The Sopranos |
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260 | (19) |
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A Writer Who Is Good For You |
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279 | (11) |
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Bernard Malamud and the Comprehending Heart |
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290 | (11) |
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The Second Coming of Richard Yates |
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301 | (12) |
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Chekhov's ``Cheap White Bone'' |
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313 | (10) |
| Acknowledgments |
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323 | (2) |
| Credits |
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325 | (2) |
| Index |
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