...Seb Franklin This essay takes the diagrammatic formulations of trauma and networks that are both presented and critiqued in Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel Remainder as the occasion to sketch some elements of a methodology for critical analysis in the age of computational thinking. By locating a...

... materially decipherable as paper sequences, portable objects, material containers of letters arranged on a page and yet not being fully free of this image of the book? Focusing on Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ali Smith's The Accidental (2005) as novels that speak from what Jacques Derrida calls the...

... slammed into England and Europe; taken together, these “storm” texts begin to imagine the novel genre and its dread remainder. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Agamben , Giorgio . Means without End: Notes on Politics . Trans. Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino. Minneapolis: U of...

... novels about mediation by Tom McCarthy including Satin Island , C , and Remainder . After establishing the role of mediation in wartime activities across periods of imperial rule, the essay underscores these texts’ varied obsessions with physical channels, technological apparatuses, and built...

.... NH: What is it that writing a novel makes available for you that writing criticism or, for example, a long essay on Tintin doesn't? TM: Well, the book on Tintin I wrote at the same time I was working on my novel C , shortly after I'd written Remainder but in fact before I'd published it...

... spirit of the argument of this book I would be interested in watching Gee analyze the move from blank verse to heroic couplet, the subbasement of the footnotes, the overwhelming apparatus of appendices, for other generative or parodic forms of literary leftovers, rem­ nants, and remainders...

... that if the novel dies, postmodernity and its visual-spatial investments would be the ultimate victor. For Lukács the problem of the novel is a matter of remaindered focalization: “[T]he novel overcomes its ‘bad’ infinity by recourse to the biographical form” (81). Faced with an unlimitedness...

... Faulkner respond to the official versions of history by focusing on tombstones-what is written on than, what these markersmark, and what they cover. These are the "remainders stories left out of and left over from the official account" (36).Represented as objects, stones, they respond to the...

... Ellis's descriptions of violence and the “interpretive violence” of trying to impose meaning on the novel (223). In the section's second chapter, Serpell meditates on the “synchronicity” of Tom McCarthy's Remainder. The reenactments and repetitions that structure Remainder , she suggests, leave readers...

... embodiment” (31). It was in the Restriction era that money, as circulating paper, came fully into view as the two-in-one phenomenon of sublime abstraction and abject remainder. Money’s “sub- lime body,” in Slavoj Žižek’s phrase—money as untouchable, unlocalizable abstraction—is shadowed by the worn...

... postmodernist historical text’s refusal of the ideology of totalizing narrative. Working out his theory of the antinarrative element as a remainder of what narrative “excludes, omits, and deletes” (41), Berlatsky describes the juxtaposition of two portraits in Woolf’s Between the Acts: The one, “a long...

... presence, the form of the dialectic without its metaphysical understanding. But this form is not a mere remainder. It relaunches itself beyond destruction and deconstruction. It puts into play or sets off again that of which 12 NOVEL | SPRING 2012 it is the form” (53). To Malabou...

... will consolidate in the mid to late nineteenth century (10). As Haggerty explains in the first chapter, the formulaic nature of gothic writing repre- sents a stabilizing repetition in the face of "the primal reality of the culture at large," a symptomatic remainder in the ascendancy of the...

... novels such as Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy initially welcomed this “property-owning, cultivated subject of the Enlightenment tradition” (40). But in the remainder of Gothic Subjects , we see how such a welcome is short-lived. In a series of...

... their nonbeing” (73). “[T]he novel is perhaps the exemplary form in which we might test this capacity for discourse to realize itself, whilst always insisting upon its immateriality. . . . The shape shifting, gender indeterminate waiter in McCarthy's Remainder is perhaps not a mark of that...

... from positivist area studies models, Starosta defines her Eastern Europe as an imaginary of belatedness, untimely remainders, and unstable forms. Reading, in turn understood as “an encounter with the rhetorical dimension of language,” undermines “the at once grammatical, ideological, and hermeneutic...

... property" (151). Ths tension between possession and display proves increasingly central in the remainder of the book. DANIEL HACK I AUTHORS AND INVENTORS Pettitt's next chapter views the discourse of authorship in the early 1850s, including the so-called "Dignity of...

... pieces tell us, is supremely subjective as a practice and at the same time is a process, or set of processes, from which one may stand back, detached. But it’s on the reader who is in some way caught up (or who fails to be caught up) in what he or she reads that I want to focus the remainder of my...

... begin not with overt references to state violence like those in, say, Betty Ben- nett’s 1976 anthology, British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793–1815, or Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, but with refracted traces: the hints or ghosts of something absent. In these remainders or affective...

... Lukasik’s more general discussion of how the perception of dis- tinction came to define the social spaces of the new republic, and the remainder of the book explores how this discursive tradition continued to shape literary production as the nineteenth century progressed. Addressing the seduction...