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...Sam Plasencia [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Regents of the University of Colorado 2023 How do we narrate revolution, its actors, constitutive acts, and locations? Thinking with three recent texts on revolutionary action—in the early national Atlantic world and in our...

... of indirect speech. Dorrit Cohn, fo r example, makes the distinction between psycho-narration, a technique in which a verb o f perception introduces the character's th o ug h ts (he thought, he w ondered, he reflected) and narrated m onologue, which, by subtle contrast, dispenses w ith the verb of perception...

... Chinese leftist insurgents who sought to establish an independent Borneo state. The novel argues for a postcolonial remapping of Borneo beyond colonial statecraft and Cold War geopolitics in this contested territory, which are narrated through Chinese civilizational and Malay and British national...

... on two contemporary novels of the African diaspora: Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me . Narrating local forms of survival in post–civil war Sierra Leone, these novels use animist modes of consciousness to theorize the collective trauma...

... to describe the works’ relation-based sovereign imaginaries, this essay first follows the King Horn narrator’s depiction of Godhild’s hermetic retreat into stone when Saracens conquer her husband’s realm. Then it turns to the nameless lady of “Yonec” and her implausible escape from her jealous husband’s tower...

... and the narrator's account are introduced as a fo rm o f w it­ ness, resurrecting a catastrophic yet half-forgotten past: indeed, M ark Anderson has argued th a t Sebald h ighlights the narrator's fu n ction "to listen and bear w itn e ss " in all o f his oeu­ vre (106). It is th is te stim o n ia l d im e n sio n o...

... ultaneously civil and antisocial, Bartleby's social niceties "refuse point-blank" through "extraordinary conduct," which the firs t person lawyer-narrator view s as an unbearable im passiveness.1 Bartleby prefers to neither copy do c­ um ents nor vacate the legal chambers. A t the behest o f a new landlord...

... r even a briefly held "realised vision" opens up the space of w hat Grosz, fo l­ lowing Bergson, calls the virtu a l things that m ight become actual if the right conditions for them are met in the future. "Virtual reality" does make an appearance in Written on the Body, when the narrator (whose...

... reads instead. The book he chooses is B oethius s Consolation ofPhilosophy. After he has read and adm ired the work, the narrator hears a bell ring, and in that ringing the com mand to tell his own story. H e tells of his capture at sea as a youth, and describes his im prisonm ent in a tower overlooking...

... is acci­ dental. In this song and for this narrator, calling the death thoughtless is n o t an exoneration and n o t an excuse; rather, it is an accusation and recognition of h er failure to consider another being. The narrato r is forced to correct the inadequacy o f h e r per­ spective and her lack...

... and self development. As Mene, the narrator o f Sozaboy, explains his own participation in violence, "the message to all the sozas in this w ar as I understand it is, as the soza boss tell me one day, 'To kill or to be killed' . . . I w ill not forget that one at all" (128). The unspoken message...

... sees their reflections. This recognition is not conscious, of course, since Pip the protagonist (not to be confused with Pip the narrator, who knows all even from the first) does not learn the identity of benefactor until Chapter 39, and does not receive confirmation that Molly is Estella s mother...

... at th e u n tim e ly age o f tw e n tyseven. The narrator's uncle, by contrast, dies not at a crossroads but as he crosses a road, run dow n by a carload of drunken w hite men. This story o f the doom ed double fo r Robert Johnson, which fu lfills the m yth of the self­ d e s tru c tiv e blues m usician...

... f Saturn (1995), W.G. Sebald misplaces a church tower, m oving it from its historical home on Norfolk's north­ eastern coast to the Suffolk shoreline that his narrator explores. "U n til about 1890," he w rites, "w h a t was known as Eccles Church Tower still stood on Dunwich beach, and no one had...

... and re-present the terms of its own identity and archi­ tecture. The narrator himself, one Tarquin Winot, appropriately 72 English Language Notes favors hybrid descriptions of the manuscript he alternately records and transcribes; his self-proclaimed gastro-historicopsycho-autobiographico-anthropico...

... Sussex, Hugh W hitbread, not a single street name has been identified by Clarissa or the narrator, but on walking away, we learn that she passes "th ro u g h the A dm iralty Arch" and Is soon "w alking towards Buckingham Palace." A fter m ounting a "little h ill" which w ould be found In Green Park, she...

... that Sarah’s manuscript mentions: “a break in the wall, mentioned repeatedly by Sarah” and “that enormous red oak that formed so much of Sarah’s Crowe’s fatal obsession” ( RT , 10). Halperin also highlights Sarah’s unreliable narration while establishing the legitimacy of much of what her journal records: “Far...

... plex medium through which to question the role o f literary art as an interm ediary fo r divine truth.The hesitation encoded in many of the epic's m ost poetic soundings qualifies even the narrator's ostensibly assured com ­ ments about the meaning o f the action. The idea o f outward assurance...

... permission to use archival material. Gertrude Stein's concern w ith authori­ al privacy in The M aking o f Am ericans (1925) is o f a different order. The narrator of this text is less concerned w ith concealing aspects of the author's identity than w ith elim inating all the distractions of identity.This...

... the world outside its walls.3 Cisneros's stories about adolescents recognize that, for wom en, the church identifies sin specifically w ith sexuality. Cisneros's "M y Tocaya" is narrated by the teenage Patricia, who has already internalized the cultural and religious judgm ent that the com m unity imposes...