... recovery, immigrant maximalism, and historical revision developed in feminist and critical race theory, and suggests that big, ambitious novel strategies like polyphony, fragmentation, and centripetal connectivity are the provenance of women and people of color at least as much as they are the domain...

...James Zeigler This introduction to the first of two special issues on “Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty‐First‐Century Women” describes the investigation of feminist literary maximalism. A summary and critical response to James Wood's influential negative review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth...

... Carpentaria within contemporary discussions of “big, ambitious novels” by contemporary women novelists by examining the ways the novel simultaneously invites and resists its inclusion into an established canon of “great Australian novels” (GANs). While critics have been quick to celebrate the formal...

.... Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 graphic novels comics interconnectedness hysteria monsters queer ambitious women Certainly, the characters who inhabit the big, ambitious contemporary novels have a showy liveliness, a theatricality, that almost succeeds in hiding the fact...

... the appearance of this special issue of Genre on “Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women,” which you are currently reading, Women's Studies published a special issue on “American Women Poets and the Long Poem” (Crown 1998 ) and, the year before, Lynn Keller ( 1997 ) published her field-defining...

... and the responsibility that comes with it. This innovative tactic helps chart a potential course for autofiction by women writers and writers of color. Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 Ruth Ozeki autofiction fictional memoir life writing metafiction How could I write fiction without...

...Siân White This article responds to debates about the “big, ambitious novel” and “hysterical realism” by challenging several prevailing scholarly orthodoxies about large‐scale fiction: that whole world‐building precludes the rendering of a single, feeling human; that mimesis and “hysterical” traits...

... women a set of skills for navigating emergent economic and professional opportunities and provides a culturally authoritative means of self-advocacy. Focusing particularly on Gilman's What Diantha Did and Ferber's Fanny Herself , the author shows how the quantitative practices of their heroines function...

... for lyric, even if interrogated to the point of disintegration in recent studies of lyric and its criticism. Although I was left with nagging questions about poetry's souls and selves, Stewart cannot be faulted for omitting such a broad topic in an already ambitious study. The core of the book, three...

... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Belinsky V. G. 1974 . Izbranniye stat'i ( Selected Articles ). Saratov, USSR : Privolzhskoe knizhnoe izdatel'stvo . Boddy Kasia . 2019 . “ Making It Long: Men, Women, and the Great American Novel Now .” Textual Practice 33 , no. 2...

...,” minnesota review 41-42 ( 1995 ): 75 - 79 . Scholes Robert . Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English . New Haven : Yale UP , 1985 . Showalter Elaine . A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1977...

... himself the more ambitious task of restoring credibil- ity and persuasiveness to a critical perspective informed by a liberalism that is susceptible neither to cold-war anxiety about totalitarianism nor by contempo- rary neo-Marxism. The villain in Surette's account is not Pound's essential fas- cism...

... in good faith, but were enmeshed in "a conspiracy of ignorance" (88). While Surette's objective is the modest one of seeing Pound in historical perspective, he has also set himself the more ambitious task of restoring credibil- ity and persuasiveness to a critical perspective informed...

... in good faith, but were enmeshed in "a conspiracy of ignorance" (88). While Surette's objective is the modest one of seeing Pound in historical perspective, he has also set himself the more ambitious task of restoring credibil- ity and persuasiveness to a critical perspective informed...

... to have had the night after he received his friend's request—a dream whose often outrageous succession of images, actions, and allusions would seem to raise more questions than answers. These include such unsubtle psychosexual signposts as castrated equestrian statues, phallic corpses, “monstrous” women...

... a massive influx of refugees, men and women seeking work and shelter until the various armed struggles abated. When these refugees descended upon the city, they collided with a labor market and physical infrastructure utterly incapable of absorbing their numbers. And so with the sudden surge...

..., NJ : Princeton University Press . Solnit Rebecca . 2019 . Introduction to The Best American Essays 2019 , edited by Solnit Rebecca and Atwan Robert , xvii – xxvii . Boston : Mariner Books . Spinner Jenny , ed. 2018 . Of Women and the Essay: An Anthology from...

... with Audre Lorde . Ed. Hall Joan Wylie . Jackson : UP of Mississippi , 2004 . 154 - 57 . Raynaud Claudine . `` `A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace': Audre Lorde's Zami .'' Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography . Eds. Brodzki Bella Schenck Celeste . Ithaca...

... enter- tainment across the same period in which Wordsworth was composing and revising his epic poem (first published in its final version in 1850 but begun as early as 1798) was, like his poem, a large-scale, ambitious, and public attempt to comprehend the city's mind-boggling size...

... . The Education of Henry Adams . New York : Oxford University Press . Ammons Elizabeth . 1991 . Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century . New York : Oxford University Press . Armstrong Nancy . 2005 . How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism...