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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 (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 (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 (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as a formal strategy of two contemporary realist novels engaged in updating the genre to present scales of crisis: Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2014). As these novels process new forms of risk in a time of epochal fracture, they likewise signal a conceptual break in realism's...
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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. Copyright © 2018 by Tom McCarthy 2018 contemporary novel cartography resistance Thank you...
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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
...John Marx; Nancy Armstrong Works Cited de Certeau Michel . The Practice of Everyday Life . Trans. Rendall Steven . Berkeley : U of California P , 1988 . Fukuyama Francis . “ The End of History? ” National Interest 16 ( 1989 ): 3 – 18 . McCarthy Tom...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 393–397.
Published: 01 August 2016
... analogy between 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...
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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
... Mar. 2005 : T1 . Eliot George . Adam Bede . London : Penguin , 1985 . ———. Middlemarch . London : Penguin , 1986 . ———. “The Natural History of German Life.” Selected Critical Writings . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1992 . 260 – 95 . Fielding Henry . Tom Jones...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... 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 or culture, Buell generalizes from a set of books that fit this description. These books...
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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
... , when Rosamond feels as if “poisoned weapons” are being “hurled at her” and experiences a new “terrified recoil under a lash never experienced before,” we know she has finally gotten Will Ladislaw's message ( 779 ). And when, in The Mill on the Floss , Tom Tulliver tells his sister his opinion of her...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Men , Tom McCarthy's 2005 Remainder , and Ian McEwan's 2019 The Cockroach —Trimm asks us to consider the extent to which a substantialist theory of value can still provide the basis of consumer decision-making, real or fictional. Novels that “do not use money [as realism does] in its traditional...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
...” (exemplified in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland ) and championed a more avant-gardist tradition (exemplified in the novels of Tom McCarthy). Smith expressed doubt about the realist depths and humanist sensibilities of O'Neill, noting that he links deep soul to the “authenticity fetish” of nonwhite subjects, which...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to understanding. Contemporary novels have increasingly sought to put their limits on display. From J. M. Coetzee's literal border lines between essay, diary, and story genres in Diary of a Bad Year , to Tom McCarthy's repetition ad nauseam of representation's failures in Remainder , to what Mark Seltzer calls...
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