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Reprinted from the Nation. "Revised and in several instances greatly enlarged." ; Introduction.--The democracy of Mark Twain.--The Utopian naturalism of H. G. Wells.--The barbaric naturalism of Theodore Dreiser.--The realism of Arnold Bennett.--The aesthetic naturalism of George Moore.--The skepticism of Anatole France.--The exoticism of John Synge.--The complacent Toryism of Alfred Austin.--The aesthetic idealism of Henry James.--The humanism of George Meredith.--Shakespeare, our contemporary. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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The intention of this article is to invite readers to explore and understand how literature reviews can be conducted from a systemic and dialogical approach. After reading a paper by Montuori (2005), I considered how literature reviews could be situated systemically whereby connections and relatedness between people and ideas are identified. This opened up possibilities for me that were transformative, re-positioning a process that I had previously seen as positivist, to one which is connected to a systemic position (Barge, 2006). In this article, I discuss how I conduct literature reviews from a systemic position; each text speaking to the others as in conversation, identifying themes, connections and generating new knowledge. The concept of texts "speaking" to each other lends itself to a dialogical approach. I will discuss how the systemic, dialogical and ethical considerations should be made. (author's abstract)