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  Heroism in Contemporary LiteratureMetaheroisms, Minor Heroisms, and the Civic Function of Storytelling

  Maria Christou

  Contemporary Literature, August 2026, 67 (2) 153-179; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.67.2.153

  Maria Christou

  University of Manchester

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  “Back from the Dead, with News”James Robertson’s Secrets

  Penny Fielding

  Contemporary Literature, August 2026, 67 (2) 180-204; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.67.2.180

  Penny Fielding

  University of Edinburgh

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  A. E. Stallings’s RecompositionsMyth, Form, Translation

  Sophia Gatzionis

  Contemporary Literature, August 2026, 67 (2) 205-225; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.67.2.205

  Sophia Gatzionis

  Harvard University

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  Lives Hidden from History in Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait

  Mara Reisman

  Contemporary Literature, August 2026, 67 (2) 226-252; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.67.2.226

  Mara Reisman

  Northern Arizona University

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  Invisible Pain and the Grotesque in Dylan Krieger’s Soft-Focus Slaughterhouse

  Caitlin Simmons

  Contemporary Literature, August 2026, 67 (2) 253-279; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.67.2.253

  Caitlin Simmons

  Southern University and A&M College

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