http://www.shvoong.com// Summaries, Abstracts, Synopses Reviews, Notes & Short Essays on Literary Novel Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:18:00 GMT Literary Heart Carving Dragons has become a systematic subject calledDragon-ology with over 230 monographs and 3000 articles on it existing.Toundersta http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1606212-literary-heart-carving-dragons-china/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1606212-literary-heart-carving-dragons-china/ Wed, 26 May 2004 21:00:00 GMT Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - The Satanic Nurses and Other Literary Parodies, This book manages to parody almost all of today’s popular and literary fiction writers in their own unique styles. 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