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... how two contemporary African writers—Nigerian Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Ethiopian American Dinaw Mengestu—comment on anti‐Blackness in Africa. This article views Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance and Mengestu's All Our Names as using trickster figures to critique the racially inflected...

... for the idea that natural categories become the focus of a form of political rationalization based on chance. Wessex, the historical name Hardy gives to the fictional land on which most of his writing is set, can be understood from this perspective as a biopolitical construct upon which humans both obey...

...—Burney posits an ethics of the novel that treats matters of chance and modes of depleted agency as central aspects of the human condition rather than as markers of moral or aesthetic failure. Setting Burney's texts within ascendant modes of economy and finance in the eighteenth century, the article...

... ‘Weapon.’ ” Independent 22 Oct. 1995 < http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html# >. Belletto's major contribution to postwar literary studies is to demonstrate the centrality of the chance/design binary to the development of the postmodern novel...

...Sarah Tindal Kareem MOLESWORTH JESSE , Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 286 , cloth, $95.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited During Simon . Modern...

... definition. Addressing this paradox, Robert Caserio employs the concept of "tychism" (from the Greek tyche, meaning law of chance) to shed light on the novel and on major intellectual movements in England in the first half of the twentieth century. Rather than seeking a totalizing theory, Caserio...

... unfitted to bear the flux of time and chance. (109–10) Bagehot examines Dickens and finds him too limp, too local, too mobile to “bear the flux of time and chance.” But Bagehot is thinking of Dickens, as so many of us still do, strictly as a novelist, the author of, as Bagehot puts...

... Maura Fontana Alessandro . Trans. Macey David . New York : Picador , 1997 . Gallagher Catherine . “George Eliot: Immanent Victorian.” Representations 90 . 1 ( 2005 ): 61 – 74 <doi:10.1525/rep.2005.90.1.61> . Hacking Ian . The Taming of Chance...

... time. But this book argues that Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species was itself part of a sea change in the ways in which people began to think about life chances, the aleatory, and the probable. From the rise of nineteenth-century insurance companies, to the deep historical narratives of Lyell...

... because it unfolded from the situation. History, to me, has been expressed by a passage from Herman Melville's Moby Dick [ sic ] where he writes: “This is a world of chance, free will, and necessity—all interweavingly working together as one; chance by turn rules either and has the last featuring blow...

... the world of chance and contingency. What, these novels ask, is the oppositional intellectual Left to do in this situation of waning freedom? In homage to the Tiqqun collective, I will refer to this pessimistic worldview as the cybernetic hypothesis . In a pamphlet published in 2001, Tiqqun predicted...

...," for example, Derrida traces a regress of citation and influence that never finds its origin in any one author. And in the essay, "My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies," he develops a less willful notion of con- trol, redefining the clinamen through a reading...

... unfolds inside you. A space in your heart so large it will surely kill you, by never giving you the chance to earn it” (63, 107–8). The passage is typical of Powers for its mash-up of demotic registers and its witty, faux low-brow tenor, enforcing our identification with a central character—and collapsing...

... of what Georg Luka´cs called natu- ralism’s morbid consciousness, this essay will dispute the bleak determinism and political defeatism so often diagnosed in the genre.2 It will locate a persistent strain of chance in a narrative in which every outcome appears decided in advance by indifferent natural...

.... This is a book, Farina tells us, about the “meaningful superficiality” that suffuses nineteenth-century prose (xii). In order to examine this “meaningful superficiality,” Farina focuses on what he calls “everyday words.” Forster insists that we cannot read the depths of our “round characters” in a “chance...

... —and an incomplete one consisting only of two chapters, titled, as per Sartre's intentions, The Last Chance . This is Sartre's attempt to write a “hero-novel” ( Last Chance 21 ). Throughout the series, the reader follows an ever-expanding cast of characters as the novels progress from the prewar milieu of Paris...

... Institute (FHI) and Novel. That forum was the first in what we envision to be an ongoing partnership through which we will sponsor a series of public debates and conversations engaging the most pressing issues in the study of the novel. The event also gave us the chance to mark and celebrate...

... audience—who don’t interact with that world. (84) What Welles doesn’t give us is the chance to watch others watch George Amberson Minafer get his comeuppance; for reasons that Flesch sees as reaching down deep into our biology, that is what we like and what we like to see. We...

... A Fine Balance ELI PARK S0RENSEN After all, our liues are but a sequence of accidents-a clanking chain of chance euenfs. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to tkaf one big calamity we call life. Mistry...

..., “The Middle Years” (1893). The protagonist, Dencombe, who has published what he regards as his best novel yet, confronts the fact that he will not get the chance to publish another: “A second chance— that's the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we...