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Presidential Address 1996: Shadows of Futurity: The Literary Imagination, the MLA, and the Twenty-First Century

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Sandra M. Gilbert
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PMLA , Volume 112 , Issue 3 , May 1997 , pp. 370 - 379
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1997

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