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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): 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 (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
... simple speech pattern brings verse down to the conversational. The Romantic promotion of art's social life and purpose reinforces the increasing degree to which prose and poetry become virtually indistinguishable. The theory of linguistic change would attribute prosification to language's own...
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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 (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... pages to project himself into these futures (4). At a narrative level, 10:04 traffics in scenarios keyed to Ben's social and professional pedigree: avant-garde art institutions, lavish meals with colleagues, weekending upstate, and writer's residencies. Mirroring the function of scenarios in strategic...
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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 (2017) 50 (3): 452–464.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and followers would be, but both authors are gauging their readers' interests. We can certainly read novels and Facebook walls in relationship to each other, concluding that the main changes have been technological rather than epistemological. But when social behaviors are taken into account, then the changes...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 388–405.
Published: 01 November 2022
... works of art. But I do think that stability is too easy to devalue or overlook for those who have it, and I want to make the case that our entrenched and prevailing values are now getting in the way of the kinds of political action that will be necessary to slowing the pace of climate change...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 389–409.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and globalization of modern Western culture, and revolutionary changes in gender relations and family life (which saw, for instance, the invention of the modern nuclear family), Nostromo and Women in Love return to the industrial novel genre in order to narrate the erosion of the social basis for the realist...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Justus Nieland SUSAN EDMUNDS, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008), pp. 258, cloth, $55.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Mao , Douglas , and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. “The Changing Profession: The New...
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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 (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 (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and old . . .” (qtd.
in Hayden 75). In contrast, in his own fiction and criticism, James champions the
emerging market and critical framework of the “art-novel”—which is the adults-
only novel. He includes characterizations of novel readers in terms of gender and
social class that are familiar from...
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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 (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., “Where Art Meets Trash” ). “What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials 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...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 May 2021
...). 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, Culture and Society treats...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the Nicaraguan Revolution, shot in 1978–79, and her film Pictures from a Revolution (1991), in which she reconsiders those earlier images. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Documentary photograph photography and realism durational aesthetics art and social change Perhaps no two...
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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 (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
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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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