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...Jeremy Rosen [email protected] Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature . By Dan Sinykin . New York : Columbia University Press , 2023 . xii + 313 pp. Hereafter cited as BF . Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington...

... the one must have fostered the other, and that repetition is fairly late. One is struck by the immense variation, in the tribal conglomerates, in the application of these three fundamental prin- ciples, and the impossibility of drawing sweeping generalizations. For one thing, the data...

... . Palumbo-Liu David . 2012 . The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Schor Naomi . 1987 . Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine . New York : Methuen . Sinykin Dan . 2017 . “ The Conglomerate Era: Publishing...

... issue MLQ published Mark McGurl’s “Everything and Less: Fiction in the Age of Amazon,” which provided a sophisticated assessment of this contemporary conglomerate’s activities as “a highly interested practical theorization of the literary field” (McGurl 2016 : 450). Since 2000 MLQ has published...

... of the most ponderous monuments of Old Norse literature, is a conglomeration of prose tales based on Germanic heroic legend Paul Schach 219 loosely grouped around the famous Dietrich of Bern. In addition to a detailed treatment...

... in the Pidriks Saga: A Study in Germanic Heroic Legend. By WILLIAMJ. PAFF. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, Harvard Germanic Studies, Vol. 11, 1959. Pp. vi + 238. $6.00. PiBriks saga, which is one of the most ponderous monuments of Old Norse literature, is a conglomeration...

...). In itself, such an assessment is hardly wrong, but without some supplementary consideration of its narrative “grammar,” allegory is thereby reduced to an indefinite conglomerate of ambivalence, exaggera- tion, and surrealism that might be associated with any number of “fantastic” modes, as Todorov...

.... But we should notice that the tastes, attitudes, and assumptions which the I’emplars show in these years are part of a much larger conglomerate. The learned had been liable to what Hiram Haydn has called “Counter-Renaissance” attitudes since the beginning of the Northern Renaissance. Take...

... into the category and commit himself to strained theorization. As Grady Hendrix ( 2011 : 46, 49) explains in a brief but insightful essay in Film Comment , novelization is an early and perhaps important instance of media conglomerate–driven convergence culture, a prime indication of the ways commercially oriented...

..., industrialism, or a conglomeration of the three-it originated in the ideology of the Renaissance and is responsible for the spiritual penury of modern man. Russell Fraser’s The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold shares in this develop- ment of modern thought; in fact, it takes final steps to secure...

.... And Jameson’s “new grey placelessness” labels not only Forster’s fear of conglomeration and inability to represent a global totality but also his prediction that imperialists, represented in Howards End by the Wilcoxes, will spread the gray, muddy influence of roads, cars, and carbon pollution across...

... of the past but his compact summary of it marks its importance: “Given his choice, he would have chosen to farm. But he was not given his choice. So one thing led to another; arid the conglomeration of things pressed you flat; held you fast, like a fish in water” (p. 47). The self is defined...

..., and express wariness about the utopian potential of translation. Ken Saro-Wiwa’s­ Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (1985), for instance, uses an invented conglomeration of pidgin, broken, idio­ matic, and standard uses of English — “rotten English” — to affirm Nigeria’s essential...

... swarming backstreets.” The poem alternates images of roughly textured disorder with equally violent images of insane urban conglomeration, like a neon sign flashing on and off: Lights speckle El Greco...

... was a stupid hack, clumsily fitting together borrowed plots, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, in an incoherent taleand she even defends SD’s most controversial narra- tive elements. DuBois is decidedly complimentary in taking the posi- tion that SD is not a “conglomerate” of disparate themes...

... and reviews of scientific books in the periodical entitled Zur Nuturwissenschuft iiberhaupt, besonders zur Morphologie. It was issued at irregular intervals from 1817 to 1824, and it is significant that even the editor had to admit that it consisted of a conglomeration of works, old and new...

... is an aspect of the anatomy of the Will. And, always provided that history is regarded as nothing more than a conglomeration of events, uncorn- plicated by reasonable sequence of cause and consequence and un- hampered by considerations of human judgment, it seems to me that the Back of Things...

... to the appreciation of his poetry, for it must impose upon a motley conglomeration of poetic bits and conver- sational snatches a shaping organization which will satisfy both the reader’s need for comprehension and that need for harmonious order which is the basis of artistic creation. CorbiGre’s...

... Trost, dort meine Lust ! In 1828 Fouquk contributed another brief essay to Ciicilia (VII, 223-30), modestly entitled “Melodie und Harmonie : Ahnungen eines Laien.” It is a conglomerate of random, derivative thoughts from Plato’s philosophy of music to comparisons between painting...

..., incessantly threatened, and therefore doubly attractive. The new Romanticism cannot be rightly opposed to Classicism. As Mario Praz put it, the two words should not be con- sidered as antithetic for they connote two conglomerates of varied elements which are of different orders or lie on totally...