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...Alysia Kolentsis Prevailing critical practice has tended to position tragedy as an influential but limited antecedent to the novel. The conditions of the bourgeois novelistic universe are seen to undermine and mitigate the effects of tragedy. The very occurrence of a tragic event precludes any...

... of “novelism” (adjacent to notions like lyricism and essayism) as a flexible and mobile mode of associative world-building across the arts. We can see novelism at play in the intermedial history of how novelistic forms and concerns informed the cinematic genre of the essay film. By recovering that history...

...Liz Shek-Noble Alexis Wright's second novel, Carpentaria , received critical acclaim upon its publication by Giramondo in 2006. As the recipient of the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007, Carpentaria cemented Wright's position as the country's foremost Indigenous novelist. This article places...

... plays with an unusual series of overhead shots that immure figures in an unbreachable present that matches McCarthy's narrative configurations. As much as both the novelistic and the cinematic versions of No Country for Old Men initially might begin by encouraging a conventional Western reading, we soon...

...Richard Rankin Russell This essay contends that Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway explores how a radical novelistic empathy might thaw the frozen paralysis that grips British society. Clarissa Dalloway's empathy is reserved most for the unbalanced, overly emotional character of Septimus Smith, yet...

...Siân E. White This article explores how Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September relies on a spatial aesthetic to convey interpersonal and political tensions, corresponding with the novelistic trend toward greater historical and political engagement that recent scholars have deemed “late...

...Joe Kennedy William Sansom belongs to a loose category of British novelists working around World War II and in the wake of prewar modernism who produced fictions recapitulating neither high modernism's assertive experimentation nor the 1930s retreat into social realism. While this writing failed...

...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy In this wide-ranging interview, the New Weird novelist and critic China Miéville offers an account of weird fiction's liminal status as a countertradition that problematizes the critical divisions between science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In driving...

...Caroline Levine This essay contends that the most canonical realist novelists refused both close and distant reading. The realist novel seems to go out of its way to avoid statistics, but at the same time it insists that we must move beyond attending to a few exceptional examples. The problem...

... in the novelistic form, which is read as a complex cautionary tale about the erosion and challenges to those transnational aspirations of success and seamless transnational citizenship. In this manner, Blue White Red disempowers narratives that blindly valorize emigration, and the text serves as a kind of epistle...

...Jeff Westover In The Folding Cliffs , a narrative poem with a novelistic scope, W. S. Merwin reflects on poetic thinking by availing himself of the tools of narrative. He not only depicts historic injustice against indigenous Hawaiians but also tropes the form of his storytelling to assess...

... Golgotha is, thus, a late‐career synthesis in which Vidal parodies his own work as a historical novelist, thereby exposing the limitations of the form and its relationship to history. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 historiographical metafiction...

... of the novelistic narrative structure of shipwreck reportage that demanded a ferocious embodied antagonist in its dramatis personae to justify the capitalist and imperialist objectives of the whaling industry. I argue that Moby-Dick complicates Chase's flat vilification of the whale and its associations...

..., but these are subjective responses and Lucey doesn't explain them. His review is punctuated by a number of assumptions about novelists whom I “wouldn't have much time for” (259), as well as a “taste profile” and “canon” that he finds implicitly present in Free Indirect . He does so through the figure of other “readers...

... of fictionality by suggesting her tendency to “treat[] fiction as a uniform category, more or less continuous with the novel” (12). And he rightly observes that a “conflation of the category of fiction with the novel genre has both led us to ignore novelistic fictionality and obscured other, self-consciously...

... influenced by Goethe's thought. These novelists could continue his project bet- ter as a result of the material revolutions and liberal reform that began to trans- form social structures in England and America and from which the heroes they invented in their novels (unlike their German counterparts...

... hand, according to whom? And on another hand, is this really the most compelling thing to say about Cusk, or Muriel Spark, or James Kelman (her novelistic companions in Bewes's final paragraph)? To put it another way, are we sure that even once we know what “free indirect” is , we know everything...

... chosen novelists’ irony becomes laced with confusion and disappointment. But to demand such greater generalizations is already to acknowledge and appreciate the ambition of this book's argument as it stands, within its concision. My understanding of a significant strand of American modernism is changed...

... Self-Representation in American Literature . Madison : Wisconsin UP , 1991 . Brophy Brigid . Prancing Novelist: A Defense of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firhank . London : Macmillan , 1973 . Caserio Robert . “Artifice and Empire in Ronald...

..., by the possibilities opened in the essay itself. Vir- ginia Woolf recognized the disjunction created by the modern novel's acquisi- tion of essayistic tendencies: a disjunction between the mimetic nature of the novel and the essay's anti-mimetic leanings; between the novelist's claim to authority...