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John Buchan (1875-1940) has a literary reputation as a minor novelist, based mainly on his success as a popular fiction writer, the inventor of the spy thriller in his best-known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Although there has been considerably increased scholarly intere…

A typological reading of Rudy Wiebe's My Lovely Enemy and A Discovery of Strangers reveals an implicit witness to the Christ of the Incarnation and a sustained critique of both church and state. His method of indirection favours parabolic form in a promotion of meaning. The diss…