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Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust

Daniel DiMassa
Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 53–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10928978
Published: 01 March 2024
... fate of evil in the sorts of literary fiction that exist outside this paradigm. Taking up the novels of Jonathan Franzen, which are replete with representations of evil, this essay locates the sources of Franzen’s fixation in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and argues that, as theodicy fell out of favor...
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Degrees of Public Relevance: Walter Scott and Toni Morrison

Günter Leypoldt
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 369–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3570645
Published: 01 September 2016
... trajectory, of course. She began as an avant-garde writer with a small, highly educated readership, so she was immunized to the sort of contact stigmatization experienced by Scott. Jonathan Franzen’s run-in with Oprah suggests what Morrison might have faced if her work had been slightly less experimental...
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