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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 151–155.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Gone (2001) and Ursula K. LeGuin's Lavinia (2008)—rewritings of Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, Margaret Mitchell, and Virgil, respectively. The tactic of writing back to the canonical forebear has consolidated itself since the heady days of the metafictional 1960s and the multicultural 1980s...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 318–322.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., reevaluate, in Eytan's case) their significance for the canon of Israeli Hebrew women's fiction writers and, by extension, Hebrew fiction in general. In her book, Merin seeks to go beyond available portrayals of Hebrew women's fiction, commonly contained within assertions of the marginal role it played...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 506–511.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Thom Dancer TURNER NICK , Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon ( New York : Continuum , 2010 ), pp. 202 , cloth, $110.00 , paper, $44.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Garber Marjorie . The Use and Abuse of Literature...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 460–466.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Amy M. King Our canonical accounts of the novel form, arising out of formalist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, or Marxist interpretive practices, tend pervasively to occlude or ignore altogether one of its most salient elements: description. From Propp's schemas of narrative “functions” to Peter...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 116–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., dwelling on each image—the more we have had to say. Canonization, the vector of less, and close reading, the vector of more, are thus the paradoxical countermovements of the modern literary system. Ideology has also served that system well, sharing with close reading the logic of the physical: to grow...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
... about historical contingency and how they operate in realist texts. The narrative model of emergency devised by such novels has antecedents in articulations of the improbable in canonical theorists of realism such as Georg Lukács, Fredric Jameson, and Njabulo S. Ndebele. The novelists' embrace...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Jed Esty In English and comparative literature, the question of realism has reemerged in the last fifteen years as vital to readers and writers of the global novel. A realist turn, so-called, implies a shift in tastes, canons, and markets; it also entails a heightened form of disciplinary attention...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for an understanding of the new “book of the world” than the “referential” function that stands as the traditional center of novel theory. The article concludes with a close reading of Adalbert Stifter's novel Indian Summer (1857) in order to demonstrate what an approach to a canonical text that is informed by our...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Timothy Wientzen Exhibiting formal characteristics of works published decades later, Knut Hamsun's Hunger (1890) has long occupied a central position in genealogies of modernism. Its status in the modernist canon, however, has often come at the cost of disregarding the cultural and economic...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... Glimpses of chronicle narration can be seen operating within and against the competitive character systems that dominate canonical Victorian novels. A twentieth-century variant, Gilbreth and Carey's Cheaper by the Dozen , proves that the mutualistic form is also capable of hardening the boundaries around...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 364–385.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Gordon Fraser Recent criticism of Pauline Hopkins's now canonical final magazine novel, Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self (1902–3), can generally be separated into two broad categories. On the one hand, critics such as Susan Gillman and Shawn Salvant have interrogated the ways in which the novel...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2013
... stands in need of critical and methodological revision. Moving beyond a notion of translation as interlinguistic and intertextual transposition, it explores the novelist's canon in light of the emergent concept of “cultural translation.” In this perspective, the essay examines such categories...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... featured in the original 1972 edition and contends that, in so doing, it at once achieves and emblematizes the perennial allegorical relevance that characterizes the African American novel as such, thereby securing its status as a signal work within the canon. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 422–442.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the traditional realist style of writing that characterizes more canonical French and English novels in favor of another kind of realism. This realism harnesses the truth claim that is implicit in the realist agenda as well as the communicative force of the novel to not only objectively render sociality reality...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., and the Waverley Novels . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991 . Guest , Harriet . Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000 . Guillory , John . Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993 . Harris , Jocelyn...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 267–269.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., current critical
paradigms, and the broad historical context of literature in this period. In the narrative
that unfolds, previous studies of modernism seem narrow in their focus, and chance alone
seems responsible for some of the more egregious exclusions from the canon. The "various
modernisms...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... 254 + xiv, cloth, $95.00. CLARA TUITE, Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 242 + xiii, cloth, $55.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 New Millennia1 Austens
DEIRDRE LYNCH, ed., janeites...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 443.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... That
imaginative work creates what Brewer, after Franco Moretti, calls "social canonicity"-a
mode of canon formation "from below," which he.opposes to (and which, he argues,
precedes) the academic canonicity that John Guillory addresses in Cliffurn1 Capital. The
economy of Brewer's characters' social...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 441–451.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ): 139 – 67 . duCille Ann . “ On Canons: Anxious History and the Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies .” The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory . Ed. Rooney E. . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2006 . 29 – 52 . Fetterly Judith . The Resisting Reader: A Feminist...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
... the author's didactic message" (212).
As Prieto convincingly shows, Castellanos strives to reveal the power struggles between
men and women, not to transform them.
Such a transformation is perhaps what is achieved in Tununa Mercado's Canon de
alcoba, the subject of the last chapter of Prieto's...
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