... move inevitably towards closure, which in the realist novel involves some dissolution or resolution of the enigma: the murderer is caught, the case is solved, and the hero marries the girl. The realist novel drives toward the final re-establishment of harmony and thus re-assures the reader that the value system of signs and cultural practices which he or she ... ...

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... in vocabulary; and de Kruif's courtly attempts to recognize the wives of the scientists for their loving supportiveness and good clerical skills would probably not go over big at the next AWIS meeting either. Perhaps the biggest change, however, is an ironic consequence of the microbe hunters' work: young people in the post-industrial nations are growing up without personal knowledge ... ...

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