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... such a practice. fictionality Chris Kraus Ben Lerner David Foster Wallace 2016 US election Donald Trump The disturbances of 1968, which in several countries lasted into the following years, having nowhere overthrown the existing organization of the society from which it springs apparently...

...Hamish Dalley Jennifer Lawn , Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984–2008: Market Fictions ( Lanham : Lexington , 2015 ), pp. 262 , cloth, $99.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 The shocking victory of Donald Trump in the US...

... the possibility that multiple realities do exist and that he happened to be living in one of them. But we cannot escape the sardonic tone here, the stress on “alternate” leading us to believe that Clinton was charging that Trump was deluded, that he was, in fact, living in a dangerous fantasy. In turn, Trump...

... to us in languages we think we understand: the digital media through which we craft ourselves throughout our fractured days. To explain adequately the appeal of Trump to an electorate large enough to have elected him, we need a new study appropriate to the digital age, recalling Michael Paul Rogin's...

...-reaching afterword that encourages “vitalist-inspired media theorists” (206) to consider the potential for future transformations of character in the digital age, let us not forget the old pragmatic lesson he mentions toward the beginning of the book: namely, that “as social creatures human beings...

... of “conceptual exhaustion” and left us with an ethical criticism that “relies on literature's uncertainty even as it reifies it into a universal value, making it certain” (17). Posing a sharp challenge both to an outmoded ethics of authorial morality and to a reified ethics of poststructuralist alterity, Serpell...

... of how and whether local, national, and regional relationships between the novel and politics contribute to a Black politics of culture writ large. As such, this issue updates dynamics between US and postcolonial scholarship, which have long shared many of the same concerns but have not always approached...

.... How to account for the convergence of these two seemingly opposed political logics? This essay argues that contemporary discussions of literary form can help us define the precise aspects of both neoliberalism and authoritarianism that make this convergence possible. Contemporary literary criticism...

... of texts. They represent a contemporary sense of speeded-up, disordered time, emphasizing the ways in which rolling news, mobile phones, and the internet seem to accelerate experience to the point of absolute simultaneity, with everything happening at once and news reaching us through our phones as soon...

... phenomenon, with British roots stretching back to the century before. 12 The ramifications in the United States for elections and campaign finance, religious expression, and legal indemnity for corporations are themselves disturbing, but the novel asks us to consider specifically the frightening effects...

... articulation,” pitched against narrative's chronological drive: “The bold wager of poetic apostrophe is that lyric can displace a time of narrative, of past events reported, and place us in the continuing present of apostrophic address, the ‘now’ in which, for readers, a poetic event can repeatedly occur...

...?’ Foreign Students Consider College in Donald Trump’s U.S .” New York Times 16 Nov . 2016 < https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/is-it-safe-foreign-students-consider-college-in-donald-trumps-us.html >. Obioma Chigozie . The Fishermen . London : ONE , 2015 . Pathak Akshay...

... first and foremost, like Wilhelm, to direct ‘the plot of [his own] life’ so that each moment strengthens one's sense of belonging to a wider community. Time must be used to find a homeland” (19). 16 Here I mean radical as that which has been largely unthinkable before. As Goyal points out...

... order. The use of the word mob in the novel is apt here, and a good description of the way the human collective is figured through the lens of the irrational and the violent in Ballard's late novels. To be clear, what I am criticizing is not the novels' attempts to demonstrate the ways in which...

... ), Franco Moretti's notion of generational struggle among genres, and Thomas Beebee's systematic analysis of generic hybridity as a “battle” ( 19 ). 9 If, as Tzvetan Todorov tells us, new genres emerge out of old ones “by inversion, by displacement, by combination” ( 161 ), theorists have found forms...

... power in the service of horizontalized happiness and prosperity for all really something new? I argue that an archaeology of our neoliberal narrative turns up a conceptual through-line that draws us back over two centuries to the origins of free-market economic philosophy, which proposed...

... unclear whether postmodernism intensified itself to the point where it made a qualitative leap into realism or whether what we formerly called postmodernism was really realism all along. Jed Esty gives us a historicizing view. His intriguing contribution to this collection of articles proposes...

... us in the prologue ( Unsworth 2 ). As such, this novel is a product of its time, more postmodern in its self-awareness than Ghosh's Sea of Poppies , which has been labeled “neo-Victorian” in part because of its stylistic resemblance to the sprawling Victorian realist novel ( Heilmann and Llewellyn...

... in 1919” ( 374 ). How and to what end, this essay asks, does the archly conservative Wharton use the novel to deploy a critique redolent of anarcho-feminist politics? A summary of Age 's plot will make evident some of the points of comparison Nowlin has in mind. Newland Archer, the perfect specimen...

... the dead” ( D 187) (Luke 9:60; Matt. 8:22) and “he does not have ears to hear” (Matt. 11:15). Dmitri also repeats the words of the angel at the empty tomb when Simón discovers that David is not in his bed —“He is not here” ( D 133) (Matt. 28:6)—though David has not risen but died. Simón himself uses...