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Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2024
... wrought on the novel by engagements with queerness, generally treating it as simply a delivery system for queer representation and queer affect. This essay addresses this gap in queer literary studies through an analysis of Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance (1978) as a hyperparadigmatic example...
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First Person Sexual
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 May 2007
... on Colette's dub-kid days,
beginning with a very topical passage from Les Vrilles de la oigrze in which a female dancer
is told to rip away pieces of her costume, including a bit of fabric over her breast, because,
well, sex sells. Lucey suggests reasonably enough that this put-upon dancer is a double...
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Unorthodox Chronologies, Secret Histories: The Novel and the Critique of Historicism
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 417–422.
Published: 01 November 2009
... intelligible
schema for understanding the long history” that had “nevertheless so intensively
and creatively seized” him, and this “absence” forced him to introduce “a con-
trolling myth of perpetual permutation—the device of the gyrating dancers”—in
order to enable him “to unify his vast material...
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Reason and Its Others in Coetzee's Jesus Novels
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 404–424.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in reason is weakening. David, meanwhile, remains the leading dancer at the academy until he is incapacitated by illness. His lifelong resistance to rational explanation finds in dance a positive valence, providing an answer of sorts to the questions the trilogy has been posing from the beginning. Where...
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Forever Modernism
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 484–488.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Rasula gives us a cast of thousands, but a lot of them are backup dancers following in the steps of bigger names who have enjoyed the spotlight for a while. History of a Shiver is not concerned at all with modernism's sociology, so it is perhaps not entirely surprising that Rasula says nothing about...
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“Lusting after Relevance”: The Allegorical Import of the African American Novel
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... founded in 1949 to champion the legacy of legendary tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson ( Hill 166–68 ). In fact, however, there is no practical way for a reader to gain access to this esoteric knowledge, and without it, the photograph appears to be of relatively uncertain vintage, which means...
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Frances Burney and the Art of Accident
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 425–441.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Heinrich von Kleist's claim, made only a few decades after the publication of Cecilia , that “a dancer who wished to improve himself could learn a great deal from observing [the marionette theatre]” ( 22 ). For Kleist, as for Burney, a compelled, puppet-like motion is not beyond the range of human...
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Misreading and the Marketplace: Dickens and Du Maurier in a Commercial Age
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 429–448.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and his fellow dancers rise from the dark corners of the bar as if “every obscene grave were giving up its dead,” his strangely body-defying movements prefigure the skeleton in Venus's shop: “dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs—all sorts of legs...
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The Make-Up of Jean Rhys’s Fiction
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 212–234.
Published: 01 August 2000
... in Paris, which inspired audiences with its dancers' painted faces; in 1915,
Marcus Levy invented the metal container for lipstick; and in 1923, the excava-
tion of a tomb at Luxor revealed an Egyptian princess with tattooed neck, shoul-
ders, and breasts, inspiring a similar fashion among English...
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The Mikado 's Queer Realism: Law, Genre, Knowledge
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 219–235.
Published: 01 August 2016
... London, as when the Lord High Executioner informs the Mikado that the Prince has gone abroad to “Knightsbridge!” ( Bradley 631 ). (Knightsbridge, in South West London, was from 1885 until 1887 the location of a “Japanese Village,” where the seamstresses and dancers who trained the Savoyards exhibited...
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Maggie, Not a Girl of the Streets
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., a seamstress, a burnisher, a dancer, a
milliner, a florist, a lacemaker, a haberdasher, a breeches-maker, a cook, a linen-
draper, a couturier, a market-woman, or an extra at the Opera (FrCchette title
page). In any case, since she has little education and no family resources, her
financial position...
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The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Extremity
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 208–228.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., bathed in evil green light, wax villains [who] cower and grimace: Mosley,
Powell, Edward Long.”13 Each night, the dancers at Hot Wax demand for a “melt-
down” to the rhythmic rapping of the club’s deejay, Pinkwalla—“So-it-meltdown-
time-when-de-men-of-crime-gonna-get-in-line-for-some-hell-fire-fryin...
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Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 216–239.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Litvak, Martin Puchner, Bruce Robbins, and
Henry Turner. Thanks also to Taryn Okuma and Thom Dancer for excellent research
assistance, to the Vilas Trust at the University of Wisconsin for grant support, and to the
editors of Novel for their suggestions on the final manuscript...
