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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Scott J. Juengel This essay sets out to think the novel in the time of catastrophe (which is always, necessarily, to think after catastrophe; which is to say, finally, that I want to think in the chronotope of mass death). I couch this in the Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope—so integral to his...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 299–311.
Published: 01 November 2002
... Fiction Heroine.” Black American Literature Forum 18 ( 1984 ): 78 –81. Willhelm , Sidney . Who Needs the Negro? Hampton, VA: UB & US Communications Systems Inc., 1993 . The Intuition of the Future:
Utopia and Catastrophe in Octavia Butler's...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 104–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jack Dudley Abstract Ecological catastrophe has challenged the contemporary novel to find forms that convey the scale and affective conditions of life amid looming planetary devastation. While sincere tragedy has been the dominant mode and tone of the novel's approach, recent scholarship has...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as an anthropomorphic project, the medium of human progress, with the erosion of the social-democratic nation state as basis for an alternative politics to neoliberal capitalism in the shadow of global environmental catastrophe. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 bildungsroman historical novel...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... urban space. I am ultimately interested in how these subjectivities inform various imaginations of futurity—catastrophic, deconstructive, and regenerative—within a country in which, as Imraan Coovadia has written, “the conditions for transcending the present are hardly to be conceived” (51). 2...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 327–331.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Grace A. Musila Grace.Musila@wits.ac.za Pallavi Rastogi , Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century ( Evanston, IL : Northwestern UP , 2020 ), pp. 305 , ebook, $34.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 In 2004 I joined a student...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-scale works of literary fiction that stage how new forms of life emerge from catastrophe, how survivors adapt to the altered conditions of existence” (2). By “new” Payne means better, as he states explicitly early on: “postapocalyptic fiction is by definition catastrophic,” he writes...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 327–342.
Published: 01 November 2012
... was inscribed.
Read as a catastrophically exemplary event, Moby-Dick opens a vista in which
a total event becomes retrospectively and prospectively visible—the inauguration
of a finance-driven regime of US global hegemony that began with the commer-
cial imperialism of the nineteenth century and mutated...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 452–471.
Published: 01 November 2020
... inquiry of the novel's characters becomes both an ethical posture from which to read the evidence of “oceanic catastrophe” and a model for how to read the novel itself ( Brayton 565 ). 5 Borrowing the phrase “forensic unpeeling” from A Tale for the Time Being , Guy Beauregard argues that what...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 157–161.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as it can be used to encourage it” (200–201). She accomplishes this goal decisively enough that contesting the point might seem like willful or hopeful ignorance. The strength of Training for Catastrophe is its close examination of the internal dynamics of the preparedness paradigm, which explicates...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 21–38.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the elevator crash; sitting in his old residence, she imagines his fears that “he will be revealed for who he is, the catastrophic accident ” (237; emphasis added). This lexical linkage of Fulton's Blackness and the elevator crash suggests how both instances seem to demand a third episteme beyond...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 166–175.
Published: 01 August 2018
...? The whale, of course, has other ideas. We could understand its final smashing of the Pequod as a form of radical and catastrophic anamorphosis. But what the INS Report emphasized was the material, rather than simply visual, aspect of this catastrophe. Like some Hegelian factory, the Pequod 's work...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
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of “uniformitarian rather than catastrophic principles” of change. They argue that,
like evolution, the geological record, British political gradualism, the growth of
industry and the railroads, and even the nineteenth-century understanding of
fetal development, the serial demonstrated “steady, continuous...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
... this denouement. We are, to be sure, promised a different pair of dialectical antitheses in modernism, but the loss of the mature novelistic narrative impulse is nevertheless presented as a genuine catastrophe, especially because it eventually results in the contemporary novel. Today, we are told, we find only...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
... ). Similarly, the townspeople's strange strategy in The Unconsoled is on one hand “de-stranged” by the fact that it ultimately meets its objective of preventing a catastrophic eruption of “the crisis”; but if this success renders the strategy rational, at its core lies an irrationality that serves to “re...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 2007
...: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989 . Blatchford , Robert . A Bohemian Girl and McGinnis . London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1899 . Brooks , Henry S. “A Catastrophe in Bohemia.” A Catastrophe in Bohemia and Other Stories . New York: Charles...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., and even Esty's decision to take a longer view of today's “realism wars,” might be seen in light of this longing for history—more specifically, a longing for the ongoingness of history behind our backs, despite our present-day overwhelming sense of catastrophe and political stagnation. Given the range...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 May 2013
... displacements in social relations” (85). I hesitated for a moment over the suggestion
that Dickens and Carlyle express an “ambivalence” about social renewal, because I have
always thought they were pretty clear about its faint chances, but I was missing the lure
of redemptive catastrophe that both Bleak...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 309–311.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of
her physical and emotional perspective on that collective trauma. For Torgovnick, that
"middle distance" also became an ethical imperative and is, finally, tlus book's signature.
Apart from challenging proprietary claims to collective catastrophe and recovering painful
histories (particularly...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2023
... than any individual mimetic effort. In this regard, Boxall's argument is ultimately optimistic. As he puts it, “we are never quite identical with the object that we become when we are enworlded, and this difference, however catastrophic it might be for the instantiation of being, is also what allows us...
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