... We Have Nothing encyclopedic. Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 comparative literature music and literature encyclopedic novel readerly immersion polyphonic narrative “Novels are long,” Franco Moretti ( 2013 : 165) reminds us, because they comprise series of adventures...

... them with a narrative developed through minutely detailed, “quasi- photographic” descriptions (Ashbery 2004, 39): hence the odd mix in his works of fantastical events and machines (such as the mosaic- making Pavior’s Beetle) described in MIXED FEELINGS...

... themselves ensnared between their wills and their fates, and the limited choices of women represent a muted but authentic version of tragedy. In Eliot's work the seemingly narrow narratives of individual lives—a point frequently offered as evidence for the nontragic nature of Eliot's novels—prove to have...

... insists, like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on adjusting instruction in practical reason to the student's capacity and knowledge.3 Central to this adjust- ment are narratives based on "particular examples," without which "the most obvious tasks are not brought home to our business" (Practical Education 1...

... of narratives, usually in the third person. Catholic congrega- tions of the time and indeed up to 1965 were supposed to listen while a priest or a choir said or sang the Psalms in Latin; and the choir often sang them in polyphonic settings which were beautiful but complex and therefore obfusca- tory...

... style. However, L. Michael O’Toole (1982, 40) asserts convincingly that both the novel and the short story are “essentially ‘dialogic’ in character”: “Bakhtin’s term is relevant not only to the ‘polyphonic’ novels of Dostoevsky . . . but to all narrative genres which presuppose, and to some extent...