This article presents an interview with the noted Nepali American fiction writer Samrat Upadhyay. Samrat Upadhyay's fiction is mostly about his native country of Nepal, but he writes mainly for an Anglo-American audience. In the interview, Upadhyay not only discusses his own work, but he also examines samples of prose by other Asian or Asian…

A syntax of fiction would be concerned with the semantics, stylistics, and syntactics of extended fictive utterances. (JH)

Traditionally, we English faculty have warned our students against simply identifying with a literary work's characters. For us, such attachments constitute "reading badly." But we engage in identifications, too, including ones with the work's author. A consideration of critical responses to "Benito Cereno" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" enables us to…

Barthes'"S/Z: An Essay" offers ways of approaching critical problems not well dealt with in Anglo-American criticism.

Scenes and plots wear out in three distinct stages: Innocence, Plausibility, and Decadence. Examines westerns, spy stories, nurse novels, detective stories, science fiction, pornography, avant-garde fiction, etc. (Author/RB)

Shows how English teachers can use film to upgrade the literary consciousness of theatre goer and reader alike. (RL)

Even the best university students reject serious modern literature in favor of science fiction and other popular fictions that present favorable, heroic versions of mankind. (JH)

An analysis of novels within novels. (DD)

The focus story forms are differentiated by their characteristic uses of time and space and by the psychological processes they engage.

Successful fantasies may either force us to look freshly at everyday things or expand our capacity to believe.

Organizes fiction by providing plot models for romances, high mimetic works, low mimetic works, and ironic works. (DD)

The function of fiction is to entertain, not to analyze philosophical, political, or psychological concepts and attitudes. (DD)