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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 234–252.
Published: 01 August 2013
... : Semiotext(e) , 2004 . Vogl Joseph . “Becoming-Media: Galileo's Telescope.” Grey Room 29 ( 2008 ): 14 – 25 . Dreiser’s Stamping Room:
Becoming Media in An American Tragedy
KATE MARSHALL
Nineteen twenty-five was a pretty good year for the modern novel: it saw...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 148–151.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Patrick O'Donnell WEINSTEIN PHILIP , Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner ( New York : Oxford UP , 2010 ), pp. 250 , cloth, $29.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Work Cited Irwin John T. Doubling and Incest / Repetition...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
...—and suggests that these processes of mediation themselves become apprehensible at the level of style as drone content becomes drone form. The essay then identifies in these instances of drone form an abiding problem of nonreciprocal action. Often allegorized as dysfunctional masculinity or failed copulation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and individuation are analogous to the source of sovereignty itself, “man's mind alone.” When Verney later exclaims “Thou, England, wert the triumph of man!” what makes England and mankind look like synonyms is this model of sovereignty as isolation leading to extension, individuation become reduplication. But just...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Nancy Armstrong This essay looks at the form of sovereignty that Alexis de Tocqueville saw as uniquely American in relation to the form of self-sovereignty that had developed in eighteenth-century England and France. By 1840, American democracy had, in Tocqueville's view, become the perfect...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... only relate to nature via an intervening screen of social representations; that is, through what Theodor W. Adorno called a “second nature.” In the Anthropocene, however, these layers become blurred, since nature itself becomes a medium for the inscription of texts that contain portentous clues...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... writer on arrival in Paris. James would, however, learn to turn such insecurities to his advantage by attending the Théâtre Français and paying close attention to the declamatory style of the melodramatic actors at a time when his first ambition had been to become a playwright. James tried his hand...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Teresa Michals Although Philippe Ariès and the historians who followed him have made us familiar with the “invention of childhood,” we may still think of adulthood as a natural category. But that is not the case. Rather, around the turn of the nineteenth century, adulthood becomes the object...
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Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics: Alterity and Transpositioning in Murakami Haruki's Fractal Realism
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 409–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Christopher Weinberger Much recent ethical criticism theorizes novels as becoming ethically effective through readers’ oscillation between immersion in mimetic worlds and subsequent reflection on that experience. Murakami Haruki, however, presents readers with irreducibly fictional realities...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 363–380.
Published: 01 November 2015
...C.F.S. Creasy The infamous fiacre passage of Flaubert's Madame Bovary , though suppressed by the editors of the Revue de Paris in the initial publication, nevertheless becomes crucial to the 1857 obscenity trial brought against the author and publishers. The absent passage circulates within...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 May 2021
... explained Kim 's thwarted temporality as a novel about a period newly unmoored from the stabilizing concept of the nation-state, they do not account for the politicized space of Kipling's South Asia. This article shows that just as temporal development was becoming more open-ended and abstract, spatial...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
...). In these texts, the cross-genre “nesting” of the visual within the written becomes less precise of boundary, progressing from a clearly demarcated cinematic ekphrasis to a mode of writing that becomes stylistically cinematic. The role of visuality in these works as a vehicle for the representation of self...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 504–510.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of language? My argument is that the novels of this period chart a shift in the relationship between the two primal scenes outlined above, in which one eventually becomes the face of humanity while the other becomes the dead hand of inhumanity. In the end it is less the uncanny and easily allegorizable...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 324–338.
Published: 01 August 2022
... novels of Balzac or Eugène Sue—Perec's experiment shows the social space of the city in the process of becoming only one site among others in the postwar project of urbanization. On this basis, Perec's novella marks the 1970s as an important transition point in the history of the city novel: the old city...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 268–277.
Published: 01 August 2009
... fitting author surrogate because she exemplifies the uselessness that cannot be extricated from his notion of utility. Her appropriation of his favorite metaphor for utility also offers a way to read his shoe fetish as concealing a fetishistic relation to language in which rhetoric becomes a fetish...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 60–64.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Kent Puckett Henry James's The Princess Casamassima is, among other things, a novel about becoming a terrorist. What kind of past suits one to a terrorist's work? What makes this especially interesting is the fact that the novel's main character, Hyacinth Robinson, is offered as both the most...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 304–310.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to the ongoing commodification of sleep that we associate with the restless somatology of the metropolitan indigene of late modernity. That modern restlessness and unfettered desire become internalized in succeeding decades is nowhere more categorically rendered than in the restless soliloquy with its manic...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., in which a citizen of the past emerges living into the present, or someone survives his or her “native” historical era to become a kind of temporal exile in the present. The gothic has been characterized as the eruption of the past into the present and the past in these narratives is indeed “undead...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of Dickens's concern with London's dangerously overcrowded graveyards, but by the 1840s and 1850s the fate of the corpse had also become a key point of contention in the struggle between an orthodox Christian dualism and an emergent psycho-physiology, the latter of which defended itself against charges...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... negotiate the determinism of the DNA that gives him the condition of hermaphroditism), economic (the family fortunes sit precariously atop Detroit in the 1970s), racial (the immigrants “become white”), and cultural (she/he is Greek American). The novel uses new biological epistemologies to alleviate both...
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