附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cloistral fiction -- The conventions -- Knowing the unknowable -- Testing the power -- The curiously receptive reader and the mysterious author -- Representative cloistral fictions.
摘要:Discusses fiction in which the arrival of a "mysterious stranger" affects the community, focusing on such works as Mark Twain's Mystersious Stranger, William Faulkner's Spotted Horses, and Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person.
