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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Nicholas Huber Abstract In this interview, Tom McCarthy considers his relationship to the novel and its history as a form, including the changing conditions of the contemporary literary world that have allowed for his existence within it. He provides a schematic for understanding the various modes...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 504–518.
Published: 01 November 2016
... 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...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... 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 infrastructures...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
...James Draney Abstract How do novels come to terms with the social and economic structures engendered by big data and surveillance capitalism? This question weighs heavily on J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015), two novels whose intellectual protagonists...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
...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...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 August 2022
... legends, cults, and UFOs seriously (Hari Kunzru 's 2011 Gods Without Men ) but also in a troubling fiction of a troubled consciousness (Tom McCarthy 's 2005 Remainder ) and a fantastic satire of contemporary political events (Ian McEwan 's 2019 The Cockroach ). 1 These texts do not use...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 166–175.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Tom McCarthy Abstract This article was originally delivered as the keynote address at the fourth biennial conference of the Society for Novel Studies, University of Pittsburgh, May 13, 2016. What so appeals to me, as a novelist, about Lévi-Strauss is the way he places writing at the center of his...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 506–511.
Published: 01 November 2012
... for the Novel”
that “the authenticity baton (which is, of course, entirely phony) has been passed on” (93).
Smith’s comment refers to two other obscure (at the time) British novelists—Tom McCarthy
and Joseph O’Neill—frustrated at having “come to the authenticity party exactly a century
late” (93...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 157–165.
Published: 01 August 2018
... in May 2016 under the leadership of Jonathan Arac, then SNS vice president. Novel sponsored British novelist Tom McCarthy as the keynote speaker, and he agreed to let us publish both his talk and his provocative interview with Nicholas Huber. Members of the editorial board selected four additional...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 393–397.
Published: 01 August 2016
... 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 with the strange sensation that the novel has...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... historically constructed itself. He focuses on novels by J. M. Coetzee and Tom McCarthy to think through the ways in which fiction grapples with the economic and social forces created by surveillance capitalism and big data, as diagnosed recently by writers such as Shoshanna Zuboff and Antoinette Rouvroy...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 179–192.
Published: 01 August 2013
... is not as clear as in The Song of the Lark. In the
novel’s embedded narrative, “Tom Outland’s Story,” Tom discovers a perfectly pre-
served ancient Indian city:
Far up above me, a thousand feet or so, set in a great cavern in the face of the cliff, I
saw a little city of stone, asleep...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2011
... that specialized occupational details had no place in the
novel, because they had no interest to a reading public. When Fielding in Tom Jones
tells us that a legal conferral between two characters is too obscure to bother relat-
ing to the reader (621); when Trollope in Barchester Towers says...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to candidacy is a plot that explores national divisions—divisions initially of region or section, then of ethnicity and race. (Think Uncle Tom’s Cabin , Huckleberry Finn , Absalom, Absalom !, Gone with the Wind .) The fourth pathway, less easy to deduce from anything one knows about American history...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2001
... be admitted that the early
novel being the hefty entity it is, five among these-Robinson Crtisoe (1719),
Clarissa (1747-48), Sir Charles Grandison (1753-54), Joseph Andrews (1742), and Tom
Jones (1749)-take up a whopping twenty-one volumes. Drawing on Hurd,
Beattie, and Warton, and in places...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 210–226.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ). And when, in The Mill on the Floss , Tom Tulliver tells his sister his opinion of her, Maggie is described as “writh[ing]” under his “terrible cutting truth” as she recognizes the legitimacy of his concerns ( 409 ). Consistently in Eliot's work, persuasion is cast as a species of violence. Works...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and sociological impact—as a means of structuring not only social relations but the novelistic form. Looking at a recent crop of speculative fiction—Hari Kunzru's 2011 Gods Without Men , Tom McCarthy's 2005 Remainder , and Ian McEwan's 2019 The Cockroach —Trimm asks us to consider the extent to which...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
... realist values, Smith, in her 2008 essay “Two Paths for the Novel,” questioned the reflexive attraction of contemporary readers to “lyrical realism” (exemplified in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland ) and championed a more avant-gardist tradition (exemplified in the novels of Tom McCarthy). Smith expressed...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of a Bad Year , to Tom McCarthy's repetition ad nauseam of representation's failures in Remainder , to what Mark Seltzer calls Kazuo Ishiguro's novels of “nonknowing, and its institutionalizations,” the novel's interventions into the present are less and less about sharing information and more about...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 338–368.
Published: 01 November 2001
... AND IDENTIFICATION
Uncle Tom" and of approaching "the difficult question of share-cropping with all
the amiable openmindedness of a Boston Abolitionist of 1850" (CohnOAs in
Stowe's narrative, objects in You Have Seen Their Faces mark ruptures in American
democracy by showing the ways that the economic...
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