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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 200–217.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Sarah Comyn Abstract To address in economic terms what D. A. Miller calls “Austen Style” and Anne Toner, following G. H. Lewes, identifies as Jane Austen's “economy of art,” this article uses Austen's major novels and final unfinished manuscript to examine the changing relationship between...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
... . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Documentary photograph photography and realism durational aesthetics art and social change Perhaps no two words are more commonly associated with photography than documentary and realism —a fact that has made this medium of long-standing...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 368–371.
Published: 01 August 2016
... “Change the World List,” a collection of companies recognized for their “progress in addressing major social problems as a part of their core business strategy” ( Murray ). These companies, the magazine claims, have the capacity to increase their bottom line through philanthropy or “are doing well...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 379–403.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., so much as a statement of faith that coterie action might provide the catalyst for sweeping social change. This is in some sense a familiar idea among modernists and the scholarship their work has attracted—recall any utopian community and the many avant-garde groups that imagine their own practices...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 221–237.
Published: 01 August 2012
... at the level of politics. Moreover, the references
to the former militant radical Martin Ridnour in Falling Man as well as Saturday’s
depiction of the IRA and of an old-fashioned working-class rowdy raise the issues
of class and social change associated with these figures, but they are described...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Works Cited Apter David Saich Tony . Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1994 . Berman Marshall . “Themes for China: Modern Arts, Modern Conflict.” Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China . Ed. Cao Tian Yu Xueping Zhong...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 388–405.
Published: 01 November 2022
... . Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2021 . Sexton Jared . “ The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism .” Tensions Journal 5 ( 2011 ): 1 – 47 . Shklovsky Viktor . “ Art as Technique .” Russian Formalist...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 452–464.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... But the change is neither so simple nor such a radical departure from imaginative forms of literary consensus. The representative status we identify with literary characters in the novel and with the subjects of literary autobiography is still evident in the circulation of my postings to social media. Even if “I...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
...) that Obama is or is not a new F.D.R., or that he might or might not usher in
a global New New Deal, or that his liberalism is either a long-overdue corrective to Bush
43’s shameful neglect of the welfare state or a veiled portent of some hidden “socialism” or
“fascism.” On the terrain of current...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 216–222.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of step with the temporal imperatives of the twentieth century. Turning to the temporality of jazz form, the essay then shows how the novel reshapes its mode of prolepsis to accommodate itself to the changing temporal landscape of the twentieth century. The figure I use for the interaction between jazz...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of his new “art-novel” have
been insightfully described.3 Here I want to focus on a different aspect of James’s
“elevation” of the novel: the significance of the adults-only novel within the social
history of age. James shows a newly specialized interest in and enthusiasm for the
idea...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 479–482.
Published: 01 November 2012
... begun its precipitous decline, and the self-serving drive of capitalism has
overwritten feudalism” (113). That is, insofar as these changes precipitate various anxieties
directed at all kinds of social forces, the decision to privilege race as the “encrypted cipher
for modernity” in Ford’s novel...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of analysis for liter-
ary scholars and cultural historians. Work by critics like Eric Slauter (The State as a Work
of Art, 2011), Susan Scott Parish (American Curiosities, 2006), and Martin Brückner (The Geo-
graphic Revolution in Early America, 2006) has changed the way we understand how social...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
... they deal with every day.” Indeed, with Muniz's help, Tião is able to make capital, culture, and social change from the same materials he deals with every day, namely, garbage. Muniz's ars poetica is one of moving away not only from high art to low art but also from the most powerful artistic centers...
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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 (2021) 54 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and Society: 1780–1950 (1958). Culture and Society demonstrates how British writers, living amid the immense social and political changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, repurposed words to characterize these tumultuous changes, to think about them, and to act on them. Among its great virtues...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, which did not yet exist in the novel's timeframe. The Met's impossible location and its uncataloged holdings open to public viewing upset New York's social and aesthetic hierarchies. It is in this anachronistic and democratic context that Archer first sees “love...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 338–368.
Published: 01 November 2001
... for Some New Ways of Thinking?” Journal of American History . 83 ( 1996 ): 100 –38. Lentricchia , Frank . Criticism and Social Change . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983 . Mandle , Jay . Not Slave, Not Free: The African-American Experience Since the Civil War . Durham: Duke UP, 1992...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
...
to a greater degree than it was in Pepetela's or Gaddis's time, our own.
The substantial peculiarities of Carpenter's Gothic stem from a simple formal
problem: how to produce a narrative map of the social totality-of the profound
world-historical changes, affecting all individual destinies, that we...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 196–206.
Published: 01 August 2009
... the treatise by explic-
itly associating Woolf’s aesthetics of existence with fascism. Condemning Three
Guineas for reading “like Nazi dialectic,” she concludes of its “art of living” that
it is “conceived by a social parasite” (qtd. in Lee 692). In her biography of Woolf,
Hermione Lee suggests...
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