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differences (2017) 28 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Frances Ferguson “The Novel Comes of Age” aims to discuss the importance of conversation as Anna Laetitia Barbauld instantiates it in her Lessons for Children and Hymns in Prose for Children and in Evenings at Home , which she and her brother John Aikin jointly authored. As Barbauld lays out her...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 68–100.
Published: 01 July 1996
.... Jaggar Alison M. and Bordo Susan R. . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 1989 . 13 – 33 . Bouson J. Brooks . Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood . Amherst : U of Massachusetts P , 1993 . Butler Judith . Bodies...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in something earlier” (21). What, then, is “novel” about Freud’s text? As the editors of Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion (2018), a recent collection of new essays on Moses , write, Freud’s “new vision of history” included (at least) two key developments: the focus...
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 186–205.
Published: 01 April 1990
... . Day Geoffrey . From Fiction to the Novel . London : Routledge , 1987 . Dover K.J. Greek Homosexuality . London : Duckworth , 1978 . Foucault Michel . Le souci de soi . Paris : Gallimard , 1984 . Vol. 2 of Histoire de la sexualité. 3 vols. 1976-84...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay is a speculative reflection on literary fiction’s—and notably the contemporary French novel’s—ability to register the effects of climate change. The first half engages with Amitav Ghosh’s thinking on this question in his 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Nancy Armstrong During the 1840s, British novels suddenly abandoned the country manor house and advocated a greatly diminished, single-family household as the only way of life that was necessary, natural, desirable, and morally right. Insofar as they indicated that the unpaid labor of a wife...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 59–89.
Published: 01 December 2008
... that the essay draws out in the novel with the help of Derrida's meditations on religion and Nancy's revision of dialectical reason. The “house” of identity, the essay argues, is for Robinson less an enclosure than “a way of going outside” that reveals the negative ground of every determined or external...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 33–61.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Naomi Morgenstern Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road , depicts a decidedly masculine subject contemplating a death that is simultaneously imagined as , and as taking place at , the end of the world. As such, the novel invites its dismissal as an extravagantly solipsistic elegy for patriarchy...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 244–251.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Michael Lucey In Thoughts and Things , Bersani juxtaposes Jean Genet’s novel, Our Lady of the Flowers with some of Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking about how naming works. Bersani finds in Genet’s novel a moment of unnamability that is, for him, a challenge to the legitimating naming power of the state...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 91–116.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Mikkel Krause Frantzen This article reads William Gaddis’s 1975 novel J R as a way of probing the relation between finance and fiction in the 1970s, showing that the novel is related to the revolution of the junk bond market in the 1970s and 1980s, as personified by the junk bond king, Michael...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 122–160.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Erin A. Spampinato This essay identifies what the author terms “adjudicative reading,” a tendency in literary criticism to read novels depicting sexual violence as if in a court of law. Adjudicative reading tracks characters’ motivations and the physical outcomes of their actions as if novels can...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 32–61.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud This essay describes how women’s genitalia came to be symbolized in the hybrid beast-woman form of the “octopussy,” tracking its origins to Victor Hugo’s novel, Les travailleurs de la mer (1866). Highlighting the centrality and sensationalism of an octopus attack on a sailor...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 267–275.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Forest Pyle A radical identification predicated on unlikeness: this is how Leo Bersani understands the singular mode of desiring that Emily Brontë invents in her incomparable novel. With Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights offers new “forms of being,” untethered to the world (of society...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Through the performances of Bob Flanagan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s 1882 novel Doctor Zay, the 1991 film Misery and its source novel, and Maria Beatty’s 2009 film Bandaged , sadomedicine is situated as an engagement with symptoms that delights in surfaces but that might also exacerbate symptoms, introduce...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 111–145.
Published: 01 May 2011
...? This article approaches these questions from an unusual angle, focusing on the passing of competition and antitrust laws and the establishment of a Competition Authority in Turkey alongside the story of a fictional institute called The Clock Setting Institute in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novel of the same name...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with Jesmyn Ward’s 2011 novel Salvage the Bones , as a narrative modality that exposes the limits of queer antinormativity in contemporary queer and feminist theories. Given how black women’s sexuality serves as a resource for both premature death and surplus life, attention to its complex and contradictory...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 126–138.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Mary Beth Mader This commentary opens with an exposition of Alison Stone's novel reading of Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. This reading proposes that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference is a realist essentialism that reposes upon a general ontology of natural rhythm whose...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2010
...; but to the extent that Stone maintains the primacy of sexual duality, her revision fails to address the claims of multiplicity on their own terms. In this paper, I interpret a passage from Marcel Proust's novel, Sodom and Gomorrah , in order to develop an alternative theory of sexual difference in which sexual...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 168–189.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as these motifs have come to be agitated in various discourses of popular culture. Specifically, the author traces the manifestation of the figure of the Whisperer as it appears first in both the novel and the film The Horse Whisperer and subsequently in both The Ghost Whisperer and The Dog Whisperer, where...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 60–91.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Jenkins’s film Moonlight (2016) and James Hannaham’s novel Delicious Foods (2015) . [email protected] © 2022 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2022 Delicious Foods drug war fiction Moonlight opioid epidemic reparative reading...
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