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...R. John Williams Boxall Peter , The Value of the Novel ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2015 ), pp. 202, paper, $17.99 . Copyright © 2017 by R. John Williams 2017 Peter Boxall's slim and elegant volume, The Value of the Novel , offers a deft, timely, and persuasive argument...

...Marta Figlerowicz [email protected] Peter Boxall , The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life ( New York : Cambridge UP , 2020 ), pp. 422 , cloth, $39.99 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 Peter Boxall's The Prosthetic...

... both what this putative experience of immediacy feels like and how it has been conceptualized in public discourse and literary theory. Peter Boxall describes this experience and its potential consequences for fiction as follows: “The increasingly frictionless synchronisation of global culture, rather...

... unfashionable, can be read to reveal its interaction with ideas unavailable to its own internal “vision and concern” is a thrilling discovery, one that should suggest to us the obvious: that sometimes we need the critic to provide the critique. 1 For some examples of these studies, see Boxall...

... global surplus,” Peter Boxall writes of the contemporary, post-scarcity economy which Beckett described so presciently, “this supposed triumph of abundance over scarcity has produced another limit, another kind of boundary.” Abundance, no longer limited by poverty, “is shadowed instead by the more...

... for transcendence in a world that has been entirely written, coded, and controlled. Such a yearning for the beyond is typical of Coetzee's novels, and Diary of a Bad Year is no exception. As Peter Boxall writes, “[T]here is a universe somewhere, all of Coetzee's narrators want to believe, that does not obey...