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Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2024

Pieter Vermeulen
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PMLA , Volume 138 , Issue 5 , October 2023 , pp. 1231 - 1236
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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Modern Language Association of America

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