... writer Vernon Lee, who elevates reference as a vital principle of all literary representation, this essay argues that the roman à clef challenges our assumptions about the value of reference. Lee’s novel Miss Brown (1884), a roman à clef about British aestheticism, is treated as a privileged case study...

... of knowledge epitomized by Las Meninas , the collective novel Q concentrates on the passage from one age to another. The lack of a unified author for the novel reinforces this notion of displacement by multiplying the narratives, the characters, the historical references. The article furthermore reflects...

... a racialized, situated, national subject whose narrative leads not simply to romantic union but to reproduction. Engaging with Lee Edelman's important theory of reproductive futurism, this article undertakes to trace and to problematize chick lit's narrative with reference to its primary concern with women...

...Luke Carson; Heather Cass White Because for us “learning to read” is synonymous with “learning to read poetry,” we framed this issue of Genre with that one generic restriction. We invited our contributors to discuss the idea of “learning to read” with reference either to a critic who has or should...

... similar outcomes for all such experiments by extrapolation and a deference to what she refers to as “common sense.” This squares with Hume’s ([1748] 1999, 126) repeated assertions regard- ing “belief” in the Enquiry, that it “is a term, that every one sufficiently under- stands in common life...

...: what would it mean to be against data? What would it mean, for that matter, to be for data? The troubling thing about data, after all, is that it does not seem to care one way or the other what you think.1 The term, at least as we use it now, refers to an object that resists analysis...

..." of the romantic statement. The postmodern condition, as presented here, is one of dispossession: it is a language of no tradition, constantly referring to other established sound-worlds for structures of meanings, (ibid.) Peyser's assessment of Sgt. Pepper, and Dailly's analysis of Portishead...

... of thinking and modes of representation are more than just iso- lated anticipations of later technique, however. Serial thinking figures a problem, original to the nineteenth century, that connects both logical classes and literary genres. In the second section, I argue that this so-­called reference...

... . (1928) 2005 . Propaganda . New York : Ig. Citations refer to the 2005 edition . Bosanquet Bernard . 1899 . “Social Automatism and the Imitation Theory.” Mind 8 ( 30 ): 167 – 75 . Cerullo John . 2003 . “A Literary Sorel: ‘Dirempting’ a Fin de Siècle Moralist...

... to prudence” that Phineas repeats as he contemplates a return to parliamentary life (Trollope [1874] 1993, 1:11 – 12). That Phineas should be aligned with the Melmottes and guano speculators of the Trollopean universe should perhaps not come as a surprise. He is, after all, explicitly referred...

... inter- pret to access the past, what Martin Rudwick (2014, 82) refers to as the geological “archive.”4 The interpretable layers of long, slow growth in St. Ogg’s certainly appear to place it under the auspices of geological uniformitarianism and the continuous time this theory imagined...

... : Exact Change . Benjamin Walter . (1928) 2009 . One-Way Street and Other Writings . Translated by Underwood J. A. . New York : Penguin . Citations refer to the 2009 edition . ———. (1934) 2005 . “The Author as Producer.” Translated by Jephcott Edmund . In The Essential...

... newly raised for me. That is, one formal strategy that the realist novel often seems to go out of its way to avoid is the use of numbers: statistics. Many nonfic- tion writers of the period referred to the vast reality of ordinary lives and actions by counting them, and the novel in theory might...

...: University of Chicago Press. Reprint in Clarissa Dal- loway, edited by Harold Bloom, 113 – 25. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. Citations refer to the Chelsea House edition. Altieri, Charles. 2003. The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetic of the Affects. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press...

... and regional allusion. Once decoded these encrypted local refer- ences force reflection on the significance of the incessant cycles that continually construct and destroy stone giants in Cumbria. Noticeably, the rolling anapes- tic verse produces playful, rising rhythms that dramatize the tireless dynamism...

...) the denomination of “indefinites” hardly seems suitable to them: each one, several, every are, much to the contrary, strongly defined. – one cannot help but subscribe to this preliminary definition. 2-3 Referring to the semantic substance, one can thus state, with Brøndal...

... modernism space in literature Anglo-Irish literature poetics Elizabeth Bowen Works Cited Aristotle . (335 BCE) 1997 . Poetics . New York : Penguin Classics . Citations refer to the 1997 edition . Bachelard Gaston . 1969 . The Poetics of Space . Translated by Jolas...

... . The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women . Hong Kong : Forgotten Books . Citations refer to the 2012 edition . Chauncey George . 1994 . Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 . New York : Perseus Books . Cocks H...

... refer to the 1999 edition . Das Nandini . 2009 . “ ‘Apes of Imitation’: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India.” In A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion , edited by Singh Jyotsna G. , 114 – 28 . Chichester...

... . Edited by Auerbach Nina Skal David J. . New York : Norton . Citations refer to the 1997 edition . Storm William . 2011 . “On the Science of Dramatic Character.” Narrative 19 ( 2 ): 241 – 52 . Strindberg August . (1879) 1967 . The Red Room . Translated...