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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the “inward turn” of modernism (226). She even cautions against reading Schreiner as a precursor to Woolf or other “psychological modernists focused on the representation of ‘consciousness’” (218). This characterization of Woolf as a writer of interiority, however, has been increasingly questioned by scholars...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 443.
Published: 01 November 2006
...LISA O’CONNELL DAVID A. BREWER, The Afterlife of Character, 1726–1825 (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005), pp. 288, cloth, $59.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Character Effect
DAVID A. BREWER, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., but they are neither driven by characterization nor open to it. A
scene that seems designed to confirm the importance of the personal concludes
by asserting its irrelevance.
This scene's replacement of character by number provides a particularly
succinct version of the indifference to individual...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sam Alexander This article proposes that the narratological problem of character in Joyce's Ulysses is inseparable from the biopolitical problem of population. More important than the presentation or ontological status of any individual character in Joyce's novel is the sheer number of characters...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 502–505.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jacob Hovind VERMEULE BLAKEY , Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2010 ), pp. 273 , cloth, $60.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Price Martin . “People of the Book: Character in Forster's...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 403–407.
Published: 01 August 2016
...: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life Stanford : Stanford UP , 2014 , pp. 296, cloth, $65.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Characterizations of modernism have been changing dramatically over the past decades, but it is only recently that critics have started diagnosing how...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the liberal party. This double-bind arrangement also characterizes Phineas's every decision and, indeed, the structure of experience in the actor-networks Latour describes. “The most common experience we have of the social world,” Latour writes, “is of being simultaneously seized by several possible...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 August 2020
... minor characters were they not first encountered or observed by more central figures, brought to our attention for a specific purpose. More recently, critics have written about characterization in a way that allows us to link these ideas about the fictionality and functionality of Dickens's minor...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 138–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Robert Mitchell Earlier literary criticism has noted the wide denotation of the term character in the Victorian period, but The Science of Character seeks to reveal why Victorian authors felt that so many things in addition to humans could have a character. Brilmyer argues...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2013
... mobile notion of collective identity toward an investigation of the presence
and functions of translation as a major component in her characterization. By
repeatedly conveying characters across spatial, linguistic, or sociocultural bound-
aries, her novels fashion translatable selves that are open...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 385–392.
Published: 01 August 2016
... sisters. What is more, “simple discourse invites the reader to interpret ” (131), the more so since characterization is indirect rather than explicit: this may be part of the reason why critics have missed the significance of character in the Ephesiaca . But that significance is there, and De Temmerman...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
...” ( 3 ). The problems this poses for representing institutions in the novel—a form reliant on the individual character to produce narrative momentum and closure—can be felt not only in Conrad's development of institutional characterization but also in the awkward co-presence of the novel's...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2024
... ), this is not solely because of the character's style of talk. In other words, the manner of Mrs. Elton's speech is not the exclusive means of characterization. In addition to the way Mrs. Elton speaks (her idiolect), it is how that speech is formally presented (as persistent speech) that shapes our reaction...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 60–64.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Kent Puckett Henry James's The Princess Casamassima is, among other things, a novel about becoming a terrorist. What kind of past suits one to a terrorist's work? What makes this especially interesting is the fact that the novel's main character, Hyacinth Robinson, is offered as both the most...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 297–303.
Published: 01 August 2009
... is
characterized by a furious resentment of those who pity her, condescend to her, or
even show her kindness. She describes a series of possessive relationships, with
both women and men, in which she exhibits the panoply of symptoms of Kleinian
envy. She perceives the world as sharply divided between her...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 23–43.
Published: 01 May 2019
... ). Austen's characterization of Frank in relation to the disciplinary mechanisms of gossip, free indirect discourse, and omniscient narration further enhances the character's keen awareness of his uncertain social position and imperiled livelihood. 4 Plotting provides, in Lauren Berlant's words, moments...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... As Walter Kendrick argues, “The sequence of narrators [in
The Woman in White] provides no step-by-step development of events, but rather
a series of sudden revelations . . . a series of ‘sensations’” (26). Jonathan Loesberg
characterizes the sequence of the sensation novel as a “series of reversals...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 538–545.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as
for thinking about its relation to other practices that sought to do the same.
If the above characterization of Eliot’s fiction seems both too vague (what is
“sociological insight and too specific merely( “sociological” insight it may be
helpful to attend to some moments in Eliot of reflection upon...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
... bring himself to read.
Critics have found Fielding’s characters problematic for as long as they have
found his ‘‘perfect plot’’ laudable.1 Indeed, the nearly unanimous acclaim for
Fielding’s plot has been taken to be both a recompense for and a sign of the defi-
ciencies of his characterization...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
... how distance allows for a triangulation among three figures: the person suffering, the spectator to that suffering, and the observer of the dynamic between the two. This third figure is characterized as an “introspector” because he can enter the mind of the spectator and describe how the spectator...
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