...Kristen H. Starkowski Abstract More can be done in minor character studies to account for the strong sense of being that emerges at the edges of the nineteenth-century novel. By pairing traditional readings of the minor character in narrative theory with sociologist Erving Goffman's writings...

... various social circles while passing for white. In Forms of Talk ( 1981 ), the sociologist Erving Goffman points out the tactical advantages of small talk's “limited compendium of pat utterances”: “What the speaker is engaged in doing, then, moment to moment through the course of the discourse in which...

... than as aesthetic objects, he frames their representations of place and setting as networks of social engagement and interaction. His guides in this endeavor are sociologists and cultural historians, Erving Goffman and Bruno Latour most prominently, who have stressed the relationality between...

...—and equally important, of feelings. For the twentieth-century sociologist Erving Goffman, an individual’s awareness of the proper role within an omnipresent and inescapable social network crystallizes in the inescapable duty of preparing one’s face to fit one’s world: “Face is an image of self...

... been forewarned, though, if we have been cautious enough to pay due attention to the epigraph to this introduction in which Erving Goffman tells of the elasticity that social structure gains even as the indi- vidual “loses composure” (3). Style, we are learning, is the man who is not quite himself...

... ( 2005 ): 61 -74. Giddens , Anthony . The Consequences of Modernity . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991 . Goffman , Erving . Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings . New York: Free Press, 1966 . Jameson , Fredric . “The Experiments of Time...

... essays on description in the work of the sociologist Erving Goffman, it is hard to find many examples of the kind of reading called for by Best and Marcus. Or at least it was. Although Dora Zhang goes out of her way to insist that she is “not especially invested in championing description...

... knowledge, albeit one that is more explicitly theorized, he argues, in early twentieth-century sociologists like Simmel and Erving Goffman. Attending to how these twentieth-century sociologists and nineteenth-century authors unpack the minor ties and stranger relations of a newly urbanizing modernity...

... protagonist one better. Observing something like Erving Goffman's principle that “disengagement” can actually amount to a form of political engagement, some of these characters “turn away” decisively from the rat race. To survive, they reject competition and offer themselves as necessary parts of eccentric...

...JEFF NUNOKAWA Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Works Cited Goffman , Erving . “On Cooling the Mark Out.” Psychiatry: Journal of Interpersonal Relations 15 ( 1952 ): 451 –63. Afterword: Now They Are Orphans JEFF NUNOKAWA We had a dog when I was a child, whom we...

... scholarly volumes: Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956), Bonnie Tsui's American Chinatown (2010), and Philip Choy's San Francisco Chinatown (2012). Much of the book's humor derives from its alternation between a plotted novel and a television show, as well as from...

...-Loathing Class: Williams, Ishiguro and Barbara Ehrenreich on Service.” Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism 4 ( 2003 ): 100 –30. Fox , Pamela . Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working-Class Novel, 1890–1945 . Durham: Duke UP, 1994 . Goffman , Erving...

.... Strachey James New York : Basic Books , 2010 . Goffman Erving . The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life . Edinburgh : U of Edinburgh Social Sciences Research Center , 1956 . Hoggart Richard . The Uses of Literacy . New Brunswick : Transaction , 1998 . Johnson...