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... of socioeconomic development for which the postwar United States and the Soviet Union offered two different models. Materially wealthy European states—the former imperial powers—round out these developmental “adults,” whose trajectory of development and maturation the newly sovereign postcolonial states (must...

... have had on economic production, political representation, and resistance. However, that focus on language and communications is a recent and poorly understood development in Negri's long career. This article traces Negri's recent interest in the power of language and communications, as well as his...

...Abraham Fuks; Martin Kreiswirth; Donald Boudreau; Tabitha Sparks The stories that develop between physician and patient are an important aspect of what has been described as narrative medicine. These stories are unique forms of narrative in that they are jointly constructed and enable...

... “universe” of Lord Horror as a form of weird fiction. This universe is visually indebted to the work of Lovecraft, develops a visual weird architecture, exacerbates the form of pulp modernism, and intensifies the disintegration of narrative. The neo-weird of Reverbstorm develops a new form of weird fiction...

... in the “career” as the form of individual development, the characterization of Phineas as an adventurer—and the depiction of romantic and political outcomes in London as stochastic—reveal a causal disjunction between individual choice and the mechanisms of social progress. Parliament is the setting of both...

... modifies the bildungsroman, one of the most pervasive permutations of the realist novel, to narrate two revolutionary histories: the story of its heroine's development of a communitarian outlook and sense of herself and the story of the realist novel shedding its individualism-inflected past. The essay...

... of oceanic studies, for instance—need to expand their scope from intercultural relations to include the relationships between different (human) forms of life and (human as well as nonhuman) life forms. The essay develops this argument through a dialogue between J. M. Ledgard's planetary novel Submergence...

...Dan Sinykin This essay develops a poetics of microfinance through an attempt to account for Jhumpa Lahiri's strange mention of the Grameen Bank in the short story “Sexy” from her collection Interpreter of Maladies . It shows how Lahiri's allusion links the intimacy of simulated global space...

...Megan Ward Critics have struggled to account for realist characters’ development on the repetitive timescale of Victorian domestic realism, which is devoted to representing the sameness of daily routine. This essay argues that this struggle stems from literary criticism’s implicit reliance...

...Madigan Haley This essay challenges a dominant way of plotting the novel genre’s history as a story of individual development, which is increasingly characterized by an identity crisis within the contemporary media landscape. As an alternative to this story, it develops a provisional account...

... novel evokes the archive in its fragmentation, recombinant organization, and narrative multiplicity as a means for demonstrating the complexity and relentlessness of the refugee crisis and the constructions of Latinx difference that develop alongside it. Creating a recursive, referential narrative form...

...Andrew Reynolds American postwar suburbanization is rarely—if ever—discussed through the rhetorics of postmodernism and globalization. The suburban novel genre contributes to the view of the suburbs as detached from such sweeping historical developments. Indeed the characteristic discontent found...

...Simon Hay This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term between the pressures and practices of bildung (education; development; formation), on the one hand...

... political developments, providing new avenues for investigating the commonplace dynamics that eventually well up into official history and ideologically driven politics. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited Affron Matthew Antliff Mark . 1997 . Fascist Visions: Art...

... audiences? Has the development of transgender self writing been hindered by the unique concern about using the “correct” language required by clinicians to receive medical treatment? Most importantly, how does the issue of “passing”—living convincingly enough in a target gender that one is not effectively...

...Michelle Robinson This essay argues that by studying parodies of detective fiction from the turn of the twentieth century, one can envision a more complete history of the detective genre's development and the alternate paths it might have pursued. Mark Twain's A Double‐Barrelled Detective Story...

... space of the university. The essay turns to recent developments in the field to consider how Guillory's analysis might respond to our present moment. If his sociological method neatly describes the failures of self‐understanding among scholars with respect to the canon wars and the politics of literary...

...Gretchen Braun Abstract The interim between Darwin's first publication of the theory of natural selection ( The Origin of Species , 1859) and his extended application of it to human development ( The Descent of Man , 1871) corresponds with the reign of sensation fiction, a genre built upon older...

.... Relying on the sociological approach to eyewitness testimony developed by Renaud Dulong (notably in Le témoin oculaire [1998]), this article proposes a new understanding of poetic testimony, based neither on an overly broad notion of witnessing as living through an event or era, nor on a narrow...

...‐economic developments: the removal of livestock from the American city, the postbellum incorporation of America's food industry, and the rapid expansion of middle‐class pet ownership. Wister's novel, the essay concludes, anticipates this cultural realignment with respect to animals and offers (even if only...