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Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale, and Utopia
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2020
... forestalling any attempt to move beyond the paradigms of globalization. In both Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City (1969) and Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2015), the relationship between parts and whole takes shape via the medium of affect, as the defining characteristic of the part becomes a desire for the whole...
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Scenario Fiction and the Novel Claims of Insurance
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as a formal strategy of two contemporary realist novels engaged in updating the genre to present scales of crisis: Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2014). As these novels process new forms of risk in a time of epochal fracture, they likewise signal a conceptual break in realism's...
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“Am I Being Paranoid?”
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 273–277.
Published: 01 August 2024
... breadth, however, including 4chan, Ben Lerner, presidential speeches, the national security apparatus, and Hollywood cinema, remains one of its strengths. Its grasp of scholarship from literary studies, communications and media theory, political theory, and poststructuralism makes it an authentically...
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Recent Experiments in American Fiction
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 351–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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...
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Possible Futures
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 142–145.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the late fiction of Don DeLillo through novels by Charles Yu, Ben Lerner, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Kiese Laymon, and others. DeLillo has always been a hard-to-peg figure in postwar US literary history. Once hailed as a postmodernist, he was subsequently reconfigured as a “systems novelist...
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World Theory as Reading Method
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 431–436.
Published: 01 November 2024
... movements or by the writings of revolutionary thinkers. This problem is further compounded by a cross-pollination of novel and theory in some of the novelists themselves. Most notably, Jelly-Schapiro's analysis of Ben Lerner's 10:04 concludes by claiming that the novel “without . . . fully realizing...
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Zero Degree Everything: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 August 2018
... into the conventional publishing world too. But I think America's a bit different. Within big corporate publishers like the Random House Group, they're publishing not just my work but people like Ben Marcus, Ben Lerner, Shelley Jackson, and they're finding sizable audiences for them. The publishing world in America...
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The Edges of Fiction: Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and the Birth of Novel Theory
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that feels closer to thinking than reading” ( Feigel 21 ). Associated with the mode of autofiction, this shift has occurred across genres but so far, in the work of Cusk, Ben Lerner, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Sheila Heti, and others, has been centered on the novel (see Bloom ; Gibbons ). As Cusk's remark...
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Ticket to a Museum: Reading Orhan Pamuk in Our Times
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-of-Empire Melancholy in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul .” Germanic Review 86 . 4 ( 2011 ): 249 – 61 . Larson Vanessa H. “ Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence Builds on Best-selling Book .” Washington Post 1 May 2012 . Lerner Ben . “ The Actual World .” Frieze 16 June 2013...
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“Spanish Is a Language Tu”: Hemingway's Cubist Spanglish
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 224–242.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., and Salvador Novo, each of whom used one language's idiom to dislodge their respective native tongues. We see this English-Spanish dynamic later, too, in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano (1947) and in contemporary works such as Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008) and Ben Lerner's...
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Reading Ahead in George Eliot
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 25–47.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Eliot’s Letters . New Haven: Yale UP, 1985 . Harvey , W.J. The Art of George Eliot . London: Chatto, 1961 . Hertz , Neil . George Eliot’s Pulse . Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003 . Holmstrom , John and Laurence Lerner, eds. George Eliot and Her Readers: A Selection...
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Realism Wars
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... 9 One good example of the convergence of empirical method and new realist fiction can be found in the work of Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan on the “novel of commission.” Buurma and Heffernan look at works by Sheila Heti (and Ben Lerner) that seem to assimilate as content...
