Complicit manoeuvres / Douglas Paschall -- The red badge of courage / John Conder -- The affirmative conclusion of The sun also rises / Donald A. Daiker -- The great Gatsby as well wrought urn / A.E. Elmore -- The triumph of secularism / Joseph K. Davis -- Faulkner and the symbolist novel / Carol M. Andrews -- Once more to the mirror / Julius Rowan Raper -- The power of filiation in All the king's men / James H. Justus -- Richard Wright in a moment of truth / Blyden Jackson -- The harmonies of Losing battles / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood / Martha E. Cook -- The moviegoer / Kieran Quinlan -- Beyond existentialism, or, The American novel at the end of the road / Mark Winchell.