.... Another problem is that some of the selections make no connectionno selectionswith make the of thatsome is problem Another The Book History Reader The BookHistory , with , David Lodge, Consciousness and the Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University...

...Lori Baker Duke University Press 2010 not for sale FICTION and poetry from The Glass Ocean A Novel in Progress Lori Baker Giorgio looks thoughtful for a moment, and then he says, Yes, this is a very good example...

...Daniel McKay This article surveys the Far East prisoner of war novel from its inception in English public school narratives and racially inflected character profiles to the more critically engaged publications of the last two decades. During the latter period, linear reconstructions of imprisonment...

... that scholars identify retrospectively as the first French novels. This essay focuses on two of the most popular and influential of these novels, César Vichard de Saint-Réal's Dom Carlos (1672) and the Countess of La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves (1678), as responses to the devaluation of the marriage...

...Thomas Pavel Goldman Alan H. , Philosophy of the Novel . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 ), 209 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...William M. Chace MacKay Marina , Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic ( London : Oxford University Press , 2018 ), 228 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 3 5 5apprehension of exposing their blank ignorance of material they dismiss...

...J. R. Morgan Whitmarsh Tim , Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 ), 201 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 4 3 8 things to happen, only not necessarily so. The tricky part...

...Megan Weiler In town she first went to the bookstore. She bought two novels by Robert Walser and a volume of poems by Joachim Ringelnatz. Her father had recited one of his poems a few days ago, about a boomerang which, because it was a little too long on one side, flew off never to return. Her...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Donoghue Emma , The Wonder: A Novel ( New York : Little, Brown , 2016 ), 304 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

...Marjorie Perloff Phillips Tom , A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel , 6th ed. ( London : Thames and Hudson , 2017 ), 384 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

... action or of decent human relations—in containing and civilizing force is an idea that informs the novel's conception of what constitutes and ensures civilized life. Forster regarded propriety and convention as expressions of force and so applauded any assault on conventional feeling as an act of moral...

... is open to alternatives. Although he did not use the term “casuistry,” which Toulmin revived, Tolstoy saw ethics as a matter of case-based reasoning irreducible to a system; and both thinkers regarded the realist novel as the natural home of ethics viewed this way. Anna Karenina also contains an argument...

...Daniel Grausam This essay compares “expert” attempts, commissioned by the US government, to imagine future nuclear risk with the attempt made by Lydia Millet in her novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005). During the Cold War, nuclear attack was conceptualized primarily as a matter of instantaneous...

.... Finally, this article presents a critique of Edward Said's understanding of intellectuals in his Representations of the Intellectual . The author argues that Said's book misrepresents Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons . Cohen suggests that there are radical differences between Said's description...

...Matthew Mutter Abstract J. M. Coetzee's trilogy of novels with Jesus in their titles, published between 2013 and 2019, has bewildered many reviewers. This essay review proposes that that bewilderment stems from a misconception of the novels’ allegorical dimension and of the possible meanings evoked...

... on doubly held commitments to radical empirical curiosity about, on the one hand, events of science and culture, and, on the other hand, promises of conceptual speculation for collective learning. This work is highly important for the novel perplexities of the Anthropocene, but not quite in the way...

... as her main case Augusta Jane Evans's novels Beulah and St. Elmo . She argues that feminist critics, in concentrating on questions about the marriage or independence of Evans's characters miss Evans's central concern, which was the loss and recovery of her characters' faith. The feminist critics (given...

.... Subsequently, it touches on some contradictions of quietism and politics, which Zadie Smith also considers in her essay, “Speaking in Tongues.” Finally, the essay dwells on David Malouf's novel, An Imaginary Life , as a fully achieved parable of quietism, applicable to all places and ages. Throughout...

... The Marriage of Figaro to The Guilty Mother— is seen as an attempt to bypass not only the conventional opposition of comedy and tragedy but also the even more fundamental polarity of epic and dramatic through the infusion of elements of the new bourgeois novel into works for the theater. Roles and situations...