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  9. Language of Fiction
    David Lodge
    2026
  10. History of Ancient Greek Literature
    Franco Montanari
    2022
  11. Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
    Ingo Berensmeyer
    2019
  12. A Theory of the Literary Text
    Antonio García-Berrio
    2016
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    Eric Rasmussen, A. West
    2016
  14. Handbook of Narratology
    Peter Hühn, Jan Christoph Meister, John Pier, Wolf Schmid
    2014
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    Sandra Heinen, Roy Sommer
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    Kris Sonek
    2009
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    Stephen Mulhall
    2008
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    Ralf Schneider, Jane Potter
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    William Leahy
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    Sanford Schwartz
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    Heinrich F. Plett
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    Celena Kusch
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    Mario Klarer
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    Stuart Hall
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    Michael Ryan
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