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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 August 2020
... appeared on our docket for final deliberation during 2018–19 and struck us as saying something new and different about the over-theorized concept of anachronism, together showing how that concept can momentarily open up within realism a number of unexpected perspectives on realism's relation to the history...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
... by Novel, Inc. 2020 Edith Wharton Emma Goldman Jacques Rancière feminism anachronism In her 1910 polemic “Marriage and Love,” Emma Goldman argues contrary to popular opinion that “[m]arriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 147–164.
Published: 01 November 2005
.... Anachronism and the Uses of Form in
Joseph Andrews
SCOTT BLACK
In a signature gesture, Fielding describes Lady Booby" love with a figure that
finally literalizes her passion by leaving it unsaid:
Not the Great Rich, who turns Men into Monkeys...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Phillip Brian Harper Abstract Observing that Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo both oscillates between present‐ and past‐tense narration and traffics in historical anachronism, this article argues that these dual modes of temporal disjunction establish the novel as a work of historical allegory...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 107–129.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., as opposed to antonymic, relationship. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 anachronism chronopolitics modernity peasantry primitive accumulation To an age that thinks of itself as modern, peasants pose a considerable problem on both a conceptual and a pragmatic level. Modern...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 201–204.
Published: 01 August 2004
... age nearly a century before its time, within the science fiction subgenre of
"alternative history" or "parallel worlds," Clayton moves beyond the typical
valorization of the novel as metafiction to reflect on how the parallel worlds subgenre
"raises anachronism, in the literal sense...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 239–244.
Published: 01 August 2009
...
for the activity of reading, that strange activity suspended between myth and his-
tory, anachronism and realization, that we too undertake in reading his story. If
the Quixote is modern it is not because Quixote’s illusions are shattered but because
they are realized and relayed to other readers who read...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... anachronisms or his cartoonesque charac-
ters, but mostly through his emphasis on the North's racism and moral callous-
ness. The two major recurring historical characters, Abraham Lincoln and
Harriet Beecher Stowe, receive the brunt of his satire, implying that neither the
political nor...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 373–379.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Works Cited Aravamudan , Srinivas . “The Return of Anachronism.” Modern Language Quarterly 62 ( 2001 ): 331 -53. Austen , Jane . The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen . Ed. R. W. Chapman. 3rd ed. 6 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988 . Berman , Russell A. “Politics: Divide and Rule...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 132–139.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury was first published in Britain, it is likewise
divided into four anachronous sections, dated 1928, 1920, 1925, and 1929. Its last
line concludes “that War . . . it ought never to have happened” (189), and similar
sentiments shape the whole novel. They are particularly...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 360–362.
Published: 01 November 2004
... dominant ones, by play-
ing with predictive anachronism, and by pointing up the failure of authority figures (like
Sir William Bradshaw) and of auihoritative systems (like Jacob's Cambridge education).
His formalist analysis of Woolf's style certainly adds an interesting dimension to the study...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 316–318.
Published: 01 August 2014
... a culturally produced optimism is not only to argue from anachronism,
but it is also to occlude political practices and modes that are not simply in the service of
keeping subjects bound to established forms of political authority. The unacknowledged
retrospection at the heart of Aslami’s methodology allows...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 365–374.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of strategy of historical anachronism, a defining feature of American literary racecraft at the turn of the twenty-first century, is meant to take on the most pervasive of the “post-“ claims—the claim that the official end of the Jim Crow era has ushered in a postracial phase of American national history...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 323–326.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., the flea market, the crime scene, and the archive (11). While the book is organized neatly by chapter into “Psychologies,” “Economies,” “Epistemologies,” and “Ecologies,” Falkoff's method nevertheless reflects her subject, staying attuned to “anachronic presences and unlikely resonances” between things...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 299–302.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Marijeta Bozovic Starosta Anita , Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference ( Evanston : Northwestern UP , 2016 ), pp. 232, paper, $34.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Opening on the premise of the anachronism...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 240–262.
Published: 01 August 2022
... systematically masks work behind a language of independence, opportunity, and even pleasure. To read the novel in this way raises the major bugbear of critical presentism—namely, anachronism. As Adorno argues in his lecture on The Old Curiosity Shop, interpolated temporalities are to be expected from...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 521–524.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and progress is reconfigured by the coeval persistence of the past, as seen not
only in the anachronism of Rip himself but also in the superficial changes of the village.
Among the most familiar and significant of these is the metamorphosis of the sign on the
“old Dutch inn” bearing the face of George...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 145–148.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of pre-Meiji works whose original readers would have classified them in a range
of genres unrelated to one another: anachronism if not imperialism lies at the center of
any history of the novel. For Wendy Griswold, "the Nigerian novel is fiction of sixty or
more pages, intended for adults...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 November 2020
... urban modernization changed from “a botanist on the asphalt” into an arcades dweller among commodities, eventually became an anachronism whose role of noticing fascinating, fugitive details was replaced by photography in the mid-nineteenth century. Building on the work of Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 300–304.
Published: 01 August 2021
...). Rejecting “ Bildung as the governing model of the early novel,” Hershinow's study works against “the creeping anachronism” of the bildungsroman, “a subgeneric model” that has become nearly “synonymous with the novel itself, reaching past its initial locus in the nineteenth-century European novel...
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