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Citation from Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu)
Kaufmann, M. "The Textual Coffin and the Narrative Corpse of As I Lay Dying." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 49, no. 1, 1993, pp. 99-116. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/arq.1993.0007.
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