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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 490–496.
Published: 01 November 2009
...) and in particular on the stylistic and narrative features that make the eponymous heroine of that book seem a visitant in her own story. Noting that the novel insistently figures Romola's abstraction as erotically charged, I argue that this character is Eliot's means of reflecting on the situation of the novel...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 311–317.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of novels of disillusionment”. . . . Any number of such examples could
be supplied. (14)
This may be so, yet it should be noted that Lukács here runs together two some-
what different problematics of abstraction in the earlier work: on the one hand,
an abstractionism at the level of critical...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Emilio Sauri Abstract What might it mean to conceive of a work of art not simply as a mirror held up to society but as a means to visualize the abstract functions that make society look the way it does? And what can this tell us about the novel's social, political, and artistic potential today...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Rachel Ablow JAFFE AUDREY , The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph ( Ohio State UP , 2010 ), pp. 138 , cloth, $59.95 , paper, $24.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Abstracted...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 411–433.
Published: 01 November 2001
... cards at "great range."
Those same cards can be clumped together to build card-houses of a sort on tiny
desks, or they can be strung out over space and time, "scattered far abroad."
Within these cards, abstractions can be grouped together to form pictorial
wholes. James describes how...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 533–537.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for readers as well” ( Jaffe 6 ). Fraiman's beautiful poetic invocations of the materiality of domesticity across a range of text and her rhetorical positioning of a fragile, transitory real in danger of being blotted out by monolithic abstraction are realist techniques: they make desiring the real desirable...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 198–218.
Published: 01 August 2003
... understanding of
character and characterization, also true),8 but to oneself. As I shall show, such
subjective unreliability is offered as the product or symptom of the aporetic con-
flict of law and morality. While novels often suggest their solution by giving us
characters whose more abstract contours...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Dilating a smaller unit of time than Arrighi's version of a century, Leigh Claire La Berge 's extraordinary theorization of “the long 1980s” in Scandals and Abstractions ( 2015 ) is arguably another. Dilation of the temporal dimension does not simply mean entertaining the elongation of our period...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2012
... complexities. It is traditional to oppose monetary
to symbolic exchange, and to imagine that money, as the embodiment of abstract exchange,
emerged out of singular transactions witnessed by some kind of concrete symbolon; but
Rowlinson comments that such an opposition is both structurally unstable...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 342–362.
Published: 01 November 2008
... compositional form, however, only designates the first step
within a dialectical process-an abstract architecture subsequently undermined
The primary goal of this article is not a revision of Lukdcs's work as such, but rather, a prag-
matic attempt to reactivate, within the context...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Alicia Williams Abstract Whence the “dear reader”—and to where? This essay proposes that George Eliot's reformulation of nineteenth-century conventions for addressing reading audiences documents a response to the emergence of Britain's first mass reading public. Eliot inherits a propensity...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as Lukács (especially in his later work), who represent the novel form in terms of an abstract totality. In the context of Victorian visuality, I argue that it is precisely the abstract nature of photographic representation—its tendency to homogenize details and identities—that made possible the productions...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and practice that emphasizes the power of photography and realistic fiction to
efface individuality, submerge particularity, and create abstract types. In the domain of
serious photography, Novak points to prominent examples of “art photography” by Oscar
Gustav Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson, which...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Kfir Cohen Abstract This essay examines recent developments in Israeli cultural production. To do so, it argues, we must think of new cultural forms as responses to the neoliberal privatization reforms that accompany globalization. These reforms have altered Israeli social life to the degree...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 235–253.
Published: 01 November 2005
... is to ignore (or forget) differences, to generalize, to abstract," a task
made impossible by the world of the "particulars" which Funes inhabits (137).
The opposition between particularity and abstraction in Borges's postmodern
tale takes to the extreme, in its literalization, the cliche about missing...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 350–353.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the new aesthetics, Davis argues that American prose literature in the decades
before the Civil War was distinguished by writerly reflection on experience understood
not as subjective or historical but as abstract and typical. For these writers, experience was
projected out of the literary text...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 357–374.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Paul Stasi Abstract This article argues that we have consistently misunderstood Jane Austen's subjects by assimilating them to a political liberalism in which she was uninterested. What matters in Austen is not subjective interiority so much as social status; her presentation of character resists...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 133–136.
Published: 01 May 2023
... instantiations of the same form? Similarly, the discussion of abstraction and lived experience throughout the book, after the opening grounding of this contradiction in utopian fiction, made me wonder whether all fiction dabbles in utopic forms or whether the utopic was a dimension of fictionality itself...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2000
... a relation to the history that produces it. Modern woman
emphasizes both art's ineuitable historical implication, its social specificity, and art's
most emphatic claim to autonomy, its claim to escape the shaping force of the world into
a realm of universality and abstraction. And as a figure...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 205–208.
Published: 01 August 2004
... theory. In "Considerations of the First Formation of Lan-
guages," Adam Smith concurred with Condillac that the origin of language marks the point
at which humanity becomes conscious of its capacity for abstract thought. But whereas
Condillac claimed that language develops from sensory...
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