...David Quint In its retrospect on the history of the European novel, Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo identifies the figure of the aristocratic male libertine as a particular novelistic object of erotic attraction and repulsion. The nobleman's sexual dominance and whip-wielding brutality...

...Paul A. Bové Since Bruce Robbins's Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State deals with the novel, readers will rightly place it next to Lukacs and more recent historians and theoreticians of the genre. Critically, however, I believe it is also important...

...Mariano Siskind In this essay I propose two different but complementary models with which to think about the relation between the novel and the historical process of globalization. The first— the globalization of the novel —works not with particular textual formations, but with the historical...

...Stefano Ercolino This article seeks to define a new genre of the contemporary novel: the maximalist novel . It is an aesthetically hybrid genre that developed in the United States in the early 1970s and then spread to Europe at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The aim of this article...

...Ayelet Ben-Yishai Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel . By Baker Geoffrey . Columbus : The Ohio State University Press , 2010 . 246 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Gregory Erickson Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel . By Lewis Pericles . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . 236 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS PARALLELS, INTERACTIONS...

...John Plotz Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel . By Arac Jonathan . New York : Fordham University Press , 2011 . xiii, 184 p . © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 462...

...Anna A. Berman Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel . By Kuzmic Tatiana . Northwestern University Press , 2016 . 248 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS...

... as axiomatic that the case has to be made if we are to continue to care about the lyric, the drama, the novel, or any of their companionable literary forms the way we did when the arts were considered, as they apparently no longer are, a source of cultural as well as personal enrichment. Guido Mazzone’s...

...Sushil Sivaram Abstract This article reasons that the Jaipur Literature Festival between 2008 and 2011 attempted to institute via polemics, judgment, and celebration the category of the Pakistani novel in India by importing an alterity industry. By failing to contextualize alterity in a South Asian...

...Anna A. Berman Abstract What is a family novel ? Russian literary scholars—who use the term frequently—claim that it is originally an English genre, yet in English scholarship the term has virtually disappeared. This article recovers the lost history of the family novel, tracing two separate...

... critics argue that the novel either takes up or evades the task of ethical instruction, this article shows that the text disputes the basic assumptions of ethical literary criticism. Elizabeth Costello makes a powerful case for the difference of the novel vis-à-vis other forms of ethical discourse. What...

... be considered as a response to formal problems of the novel and the lyric in midcentury Hindi literature. Despite acknowledging these long poems as his most important contribution, literary critics display a marked discomfort with what they see as their excesses. Muktibodh’s writings, however, reflect his...

...Timothy Wright [email protected] The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing , by Jeanne-Marie Jackson . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 223 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023...

...Margaret Litvin Abstract Visualizing Soviet internationalism as a student dormitory, this essay identifies a new transnational subgenre, the Soviet dormitory novel, and analyzes four examples: Nazim Hikmet’s Life’s Good, Brother (Turkish, 1964); Ismail Kadare’s Twilight of the Eastern Gods...

... factors. In contrast, this article examines China as a trope in Congo Inc. (2014) by In Koli Jean Bofane. Congo Inc. is one of the first African novels to take the Africa-China relationship as central theme, depicting how Congolese actors negotiate the PRC’s presence in the Democratic Republic...

.... This article analyzes how the novel subverts its conte philosophique form to criticize common Enlightenment views on reason, universalism, and colonialism. Holberg’s philosophical “agonism of difference,” inferred from Niels Klim ’s themes, is then used to evaluate four contemporary cosmopolitanisms: Appiah’s...

... Of Postcolonial Entanglement and Durée: Reflections on the Francophone African Novel Introduction: Afropessimism and temporality One fundamental consequence of the tragic failure of the postcolonial nation- state in Africa has been the elaboration of discursive positions...

...: Cornell University Press, 1993 . ____. The Spanish Picaresque Novel . Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979 . Gilman, Stephen. “An Introduction to the Ideology of the Baroque in Spain.” Symposium 1 ( 1946 ): 82 -107. González Echevarría, Roberto. Celestina's Brood: Continuities...

... pensée du roman . Paris: Gallimard, 2003 . Quint, David. Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of “Don Quijote.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 . ____. Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993...