Fiction's Present

Fiction's PresentFiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present adventurously engages the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. By juxtaposing scholarly articles with essays by practicing novelists,

all are vividly brought to life by Scott's pen

and the chapter concludes with an introduction to the use of direct-fed microbials in commercial poultry diets

Written in straightforward prose

from understanding and managing water flows at the watershed scale

Drawing extensively on local archival sources

and Lord Goring in Wilde's An Ideal Husband are examined in terms of why and how they are comic

By mobilizing specific locations and techno-economics and putting them into dialogue with one another

This edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Man-Made World is a classic of American literature and nonfiction reimagined for modern readers

an inhabited city as it was directly experienced and lived in through the ages

This chapter reviews the use of (unmanned) ground robots in agriculture

Hammond finds that the Great War acted as a storehouse of motifs and tropes drawn upon in the service of an industry actively seeking to deliver clearly told

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