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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 93–132.
Published: 01 May 2023
...—biographical fiction—seemingly plausible at times. Furthermore, numerous scholarly shortcomings and egregious misreadings and misrepresentations of W. E. B. Du Bois add to the book's failings. After reading twenty‐eight of Stewart's forty‐four chapters and “Epilogue,” this writer refused to suffer Stewart's...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 August 2010
... drive over the conservation drive,
then, is precisely what has “engineered” the rise of Queer James, along
perhaps with earlier critical schools. It has also made possible the recent
turn to the supplement of biographical fiction like that of Colm Tóibín’s The
Master, which seeks to present...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2000
... in these countries has not significantly altered ‘‘the fictions about Ire-
land being dished up in Los Angeles and elsewhere 4
6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 31 of 227 This essay focuses on a recent film, Michael Collins (1996), for the
light it sheds both...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 1–38.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... Gil Anidjar (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).
1. Jorge Luis Borges, Elogio de la sombra (Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1969). “El
etnografo” is on pages 59–61. I will read the Spanish edition along with the English trans-
lation: J. L. Borges, Collected Fictions, trans. Andrew Hurley...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 11–30.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Mark Greif The category of the “big, ambitious novel,” circumscribing works by authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace, and William Vollmann, has come to constitute one of the major forms through which postwar U.S. fiction is sorted and evaluated. A history of this form...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 27–54.
Published: 01 August 2014
...
“midwestern postmodern” literature can perhaps be found in the work of William Gass
and Richard Powers. For a more sophisticated discussion of the complex problem of
place in Wallace’s fiction, see Paul Quinn, “‘Location’s Location’: Placing David Foster
Wallace,” in A Companion to David Foster Wallace...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 169–175.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and archive afficionado who supposedly discovered a new form of nonfictional fiction. Through this method, the autobiographical is infused with the biographical through images photographs, maps, drawings and can triumph through a free association of ideas to manu- facture a seemingly rigorous documentary...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 243–246.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., the largest U.S. grant agency for federal funding of basic research in the
former second world.
244 boundary 2 / Spring 2007
Margaret Drabble, novelist and critic, was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939 and
educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is married to the biographer Michael
Holroyd...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
... them, he could barely func-
dic narrative who happens to be afraid of flying is striking, but making too much of this
biographical fact risks occluding that Wallace emphasized the systemic and institutional
grounds of his failed global vision.
64. Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of Chinese operatic performance—in which much of a fictional diegesis is supposed or posited rather than being mimetically depicted—a concept that sheds light on how fictional worlds are cocreated by actors and audiences. Suppositionality turns absence into a tool for that imaginative effort. Suppositional...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 85–101.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Yahya Elsaghe; Sina Rahmani; Yahya Elsaghe Why does W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz escape from the laws of fictionality and factuality? How do so many of the people and place names inside of it start so improbably with the letter A ? Why do so many iterations of A —as initials, as markings...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 235–240.
Published: 01 August 2009
... an author, bibliographic and textual materials, biographical details, and the scholarly apparatus of a journal, including page references and index. See boundary 2 . All poetry herein is the apparatus (ambience) of an index to its publication, i.e., all poetry is generic in its [publishable or unpublishable...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 155–161.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-time fiction writer commanding thousands for an appearance. Everything about Bob's call was welcoming, charming, unassuming. His short voice mail felt like a Creeley poem: succinct and succulent. I had first read Creeley's work in the early 1970s, after hearing Robin Blaser talk about him when...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 3–15.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . Translated by Lewin Jane E. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Hugo Victor . ( 1888 ) n.d. The Hunchback of Notre Dame . Translated by Hapgood Isabel F. . ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hugo/victor/notredame/ . James Henry . (1884) 1984 . “The Art of Fiction...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 103–132.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and Philosophy . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Finch Helen Wolff Lynn L. 2014 . Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald . Rochester, NY : Camden House . Gallagher Catherine . 2006 . “ The Rise of Fictionality .” In The Novel : Volume 1 , edited...
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Democratic Modernism: Rethinking the Politics of Early Twentieth-Century Fiction in China and Europe
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 27–65.
Published: 01 August 2011
... an invitation to present it in a seminar at the University of Hong Kong in November 2008. This essay draws inspiration from a book I recently published in French: Fictions du pouvoir chinois: Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du XX e siècle (Paris: Editions de l'EHESS, 2009), which provides...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 139–149.
Published: 01 November 2021
...”), it is that society, unequal, conflictual, engenders exclusion. The question is in fact moral, social, and political . “Certain ‘agitations’ ” cannot be ignored, even if the definition of protest (“to protest: is”) is suspended, even if “ resists ” is said to be “ in fiction .” The question, therefore, arises...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Siobhán Kilfeather Duke University Press 2004 Terrific Register: The Gothicization of
Atrocity in Irish Romanticism
Siobhán Kilfeather
Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief.
—Samuel Johnson, Lives...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 205–228.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Marjorie Perloff This essay studies the particular conjunction of documentation (“hard facts”) and highly wrought lyric verse and prose in Susan Howe's book The Midnight , a collage text consisting of historical extracts, archival fragments, biographical information, photographs, drawings, cited...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 61–72.
Published: 01 August 2006
... in the deluded culture of security.
Lionel Trilling, in a once famous essay on The Princess Casamas-
sima, invokes the trope of ‘‘the Young Man from the Provinces by which he
means that ‘‘the defining hero’’ in ‘‘the very backbone’’ of nineteenth-century
fiction may come from any class but begins his...
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