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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 326–351.
Published: 01 November 2004
.... Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1989 . Derrida , Jacques . “The Animal that Therefore I am (More to Follow)” Critical Inquiry 28.2 ( 2002 ): 369 –418. Erdinast-Vulcan , Daphna . Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper . Oxford: Clarendon P, 1991...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 148–153.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jane F. Thrailkill Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Lundblad Michael , The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2013 ), 240 pp., cloth, $69.00 . There is an important biologic backstory to Michael...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Christine Mahady This essay examines the ways in which depictions of animal and human corporeality in Jack London's fiction support an ethics concerned with cultivating a greater attunement to one's surroundings, including other bodies. In contrast to previous readings that understand London's...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Naomi Milthorpe The tension between precisions and generalities that catches scholars seeking to define the character of literary modernism fruitfully animates the work of novelist Henry Green. Green takes as his subject matter the ordinary stuff of life—commonplace language, routine experiences...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
Published: 01 May 2016
... naturalist foil Dr. Obed Bat. I then outline the phenomenology of capture as a mode of vision, unfolding not only what capture makes visible but also what it obscures—and how animals appear and disappear in capture. Finally, I show how vision becomes supervision when the logic of capture extends from animals...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
... be understood as an extended thinking through of these very topics. Hardy's novel, written at a moment at which long-standing distinctions between the human and the animal body were breaking down, represents the sheep fold as a zone of species indistinction where sheep, dogs, and human beings overlap, co...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 May 2010
... aspirations animating William Faulkner's Depression-era achievement. In this case, the guiding claim is that his novelistic enterprise culminates in a reflexive analysis of the fantasy organizing his literary labors throughout the period. More precisely, “The Bear” in Go Down Moses reveals the extent to which...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 11–23.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kent Puckett This essay asks why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would feature something as practically political as a caucus. After nearly drowning in Alice's tears, the Dodo suggests to her and other animals “that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” In order to figure out what...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 389–408.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and Heathcliff—in the novel means “reading” material, texture, the weight and heft of objects. Things, I argue, find animation through being touched, irradiated even, by death. © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Ariès Philippe . The Hour of Our Death . Trans. Weaver...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... comes to represent less a specific social problem than the social as a problem in itself, since it makes visible the biological life of the human, or what Giorgio Agamben, citing the eighteenth-century French physiologist Xavier Bichat, calls the animale-di-dentro , or “internal animal” ( 15...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 313–334.
Published: 01 November 2024
...: an ethical concern with the material conditions of reading and writing. It examines how Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being tethers reflexive narration to material media, drawing attention to the collaborative exchanges and fleshly encounters that inflect and animate any act of reading. Told partly...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Deborah Denenholz Morse Ivan Kreilkamp , Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2018 ), pp. 240 , cloth, $90.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Minor Creatures is an important and original study that reinterprets...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 98–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., Photographs and Art. Spec. issue of TriQuarterly 69 ( 1987 ): 454 –64. Coetzee , J.M. Waiting for the Barbarians . London: Secker & Warburg, 1980 . Coetzee , J.M. with Garber, Marjorie, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts. The Lives of Animals . Ed. Amy Gutmann...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 109–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
...David Hollingshead [email protected] Antoine Traisnel , Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition ( Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2020 ), pp. 246 , cloth, $108.00 , paper, $27.00 . Jennifer Wenzel , The Disposition of Nature...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
... that animates nature in its act of capturing “lights and shades,” just like his poem: “LO, here a CAMERA OBSCURA is presented to thy view, in which are lights and shades dancing on a whited canvas, and magnified into apparent life!—if thou art perfectly at leisure for such trivial amusement, walk in, and view...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... compensation for the animalling). With its biological overtones, the term aposymbiot captures the intimately entangled quality of these new human-animal assemblages. Although not physically connected ( apo : away, apart), animal and human must now live in strict physical proximity to one another ( symbiosis...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 284–303.
Published: 01 August 2019
... . Puchner Martin . “ J. M. Coetzee’s Novels of Thinking .” Raritan 30 . 4 ( 2011 ): 1 – 12 . Santayana George . Scepticism and Animal Faith . New York : Scribner , 1923 . Seshagiri Urmilla . “ The Boy of La Mancha: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus .” Contemporary...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 371–373.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007), pp. 278, cloth, $41.95, CD, $9.95. Amidst increasing interest among literary critics in animal studies arrives a book less concerned with animals per se than with the power that accrues from their evocation...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 138–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
... this term seriously, rather than simply accepting contemporary understandings of what can count as a science. The Science of Character underscores this point by noting that the concept of character continued to function within natural sciences as a point of conflict in the twentieth century as animal...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 22–43.
Published: 01 May 2024
... than a beaver can be separated from its dam-building. All animals are driven by instinct to perpetuate their species, and, lest we forget our animality, we are, in Karen Barad's words, “a part of that nature that we seek to understand” ( 26 ). Believing that humans alone can resist the most innate...