..., or at least with a very dull one” (247). The ancient Greek novels were blithely consigned to the category of romance, as though the adventures they recounted were on a par with Treasure Island (though why that, even if true, should count against them, begs an answer). In the twentieth century, Mikhail...

.... The “ancient Greek notion,” the old-world notion of “fate,” is akin to the racial determinism of the nineteenth century. The new genomic biology allows for excessive narrative and free will. Any analysis of the implications of Eugenides's narrative strategies should be as multifaceted and nuanced...

... death in volume 7. Just as the accident that shatters Tristram's post chaise allows him to discover the ancient pleasures of mule travel, so the disruption of narrative is designed to awaken readers to the polymorphous pleasures of older, slower kinds of reading now facing eclipse in the age...

... iconography, and western archeological advances into Palestine. The principal authors under consideration—Franz Delitzsch, Lew Wallace, and Ferdinando Petruccelli—each exploited a potent combination of ancient Christ images and modern race theory to construct detailed literary portraits of the historical...

...Michael Davidson This essay investigates the idea of biofuturity within modernism, focusing specifically on the figure of male maternity in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood . Although the figure of the pregnant male occurs in ancient and classical literature, it surfaces significantly in modernist works...

... of Kinship . Trans. James Harle Bell, Rodney Needham, and John Richard Von Sturmer. Boston: Beacon, 1969 . Maine , Henry Sumner . Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas . London: John Murray, 1861 . McClennan , John . Primitive...

... , Frédéric . “Course Context.” The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France . By Foucault Michel. Ed. Gros. Trans. Graham Burchell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 . 507 -50. Hadot , Pierre . What Is Ancient Philosophy? Trans. Michael Chase. Cambridge: Harvard UP...

... . Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832–1898 . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990 . Maine , Henry Sumner . Ancient Law: its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas . New York: Henry Holt, 1864 . Mauss , Marcel . The Gift: Forms...

... servants, wield power, and almost anything is negotiable. Castle Rackrent began in 1793-94 as an impromptu act of mimicry, delivered to a family audience that knew the family past, and made vivacious by being retold in the Hibernian vernacular of an ancient steward. The annals of the last...

... with the ancients on this particular point. Far from being a modernist invention, the plasticity of human character can be traced all the way back to the birth of ethical theory itself. In book 2 of Plato's Republic , Socrates reminds his listeners that from youth onward, character is “molded [most notably...

... that history does matter. Always. Mao's flirtation with the opposite position is evident in his frequent allusions to ancient Greek and in particular in the somewhat mysterious term “nemesis.” In today's North American usage, the word refers to an enemy who is somehow “specially fitted or attuned to one...

... Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie Jr. Theory and History of Literature . Vol 14 . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989 . XX –XX. Butler , Judith . The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997 . Dasen , Véronique . Dwarfs in Ancient...

... of the novel return to the more ancient roots of European prose fiction, best adumbrated this century in Auerbach's Mimesis. For a longue durie approach that rewrites the novel as ancient, see Doody. This essay is unable to take into account the essays in Reconsidering the Rise of the Novel...

... first chapter, in chapter 2 the author focuses on two early modern debates, the battle of the Ancients and Moderns and the querelle des femmes , the second of which originated in Christine de Pizan's Le livre de la cité des dames (1405). Cheek claims that, unlike the quarrel of the Ancients...

... for the Ancient Novel . Ed. Tatum James. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994 . 23 -38. Wolf , Maryanne . Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain . New York: Harper, 2007 . Quixotic Realism and the Romance of the Novel Scott Black...

..., are only surface structures. They need to be set against a deeper structure of the ancient Greek model, what Nietzsche called the “pre-Homeric abyss of horrible savagery, hatred, and pleasure in destruction” (qtd. in ­Gasché 68). Only when the reader glimpses the alternating strife between neikos...

... Olinka as my village and the Olinkans as one of my ancient, ancestral tribal peoples ” ( Walker 285 ). Thus the Olinkans are part of the novel's present day (between 1910 and 1940) and represent “ancient” precolonial African life, even though Celie's knowledge of Africa comes entirely from letters...

... in each successive reincarnation. But the original title is better in that the word roman, which makes no distinction between ancient and modern, is suited to Pavel's long-range historical purpose, whereas the word novel , used to designate a long fictional prose narrative, entered the English language...

...- vationist. To what he concedes as "the difficulty of keeping a town in what may be called working order while retaining all its ancient features," Hardy proposes a unique solution, one that relies in part on what he recognizes as the transatlan- tic market value of his fictive Casterbridge: Yet...

... tumbling over a cliff into the ocean, Stoker's heroes discover that the fetid thing concealed an ancient cave. Here, the Englishman Arthur Sevem and his newfound Irish love Norah Joyce find not only buried riches but also "inscriptions in strange character" that Stoker identifies as "Ogham!-ne...