..., it argues, is dominated by a skepticism toward the ideologically laden polarizations that once prevailed in the twentieth century. This skepticism, a critical attitude the author calls “compromise aesthetics,” reflects how the political imperative to grapple with the effects of different forms of authority...

... in the former colonies? JM: If there is strategy in these examples, it operates at a scale seemingly beyond the reach of any individual actor even as, to follow Elliott, the “fierce determination” of the individual as microdecision maker takes center stage. Smith's compromise aesthetics is all tactics...

...Marina MacKay Marian Eide , Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature ( Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2019 ), pp. 304 , paper, $39.50 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 “Need I say that there is nothing so romantic as war?” Wyndham...

... reconciles aesthetically to the world around him or her, achieving the compromise or “relative adequation” (Lukács 142) between “self” and “world” (29) that is, for Georg Lukács, the defin- ing feature of the bildungsroman genre. Stephen Dedalus’s aesthetic sensibility, by contrast, leads him...

... nature, politics, and language enact a baroque dance best choreographed by, but never contained entirely within, literary language. This is a very different, much stranger mode of historicism than that which now prevails in many corners of the literary academy. High theory came with its compromises...

... common to the objects of architecture and text, one that accommodates both scientific and aesthetic ends. The acoustic hermeneutic marks the convergence of oft-estranged listening practices—one that apprehends the silent materiality of the text as if it were an audible room and, conversely, one...

...Alberto Medina Exile is a recurrent subject in Roberto Bolaño's writings. Far from lamenting the separation from the motherland, simultaneous to that from a lost generation of idealist politics and avant-garde aesthetics, Bolaño turns exile into an ethical opportunity to reconsider history...

... to organize the shower of atoms in the form of fiction with a beginning, a middle, and an end? Flaubert and Conrad had sorted out the problem by making a compromise between the truth of the interpenetration of sensory microevents and the “lie” of the plot. Through examples borrowed from Mrs. Dalloway...

... by paying attention to perception, intention, sensation, experience, and feeling. Jagoda Patrick , Network Aesthetics ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2016 ), pp. 304 , paper, $27.50 . Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 Good debates are invigorating. That digital media studies has...

... or politics as a driver of history. Revolution, reform, class compromise—none of these offer a means forward, but only seem to deepen the crisis, which, following Jameson, we can call “reification.” What is needed now is some different kind of breakthrough, whether cultural or aesthetic, which both novels...

... for such local revaluations, Cerasulo writes against what he perceives to be a literary critical bias toward “high-art” novels by authors adopting poses of aesthetic autonomy (for which Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby are the paradigm) and in favor of for-profit films, scripts, stories, and novels...

...-art that is of no value or lasting consequence. In James's view, postmodernism marked “merely an interruption, a temporary delay in all that modernist aesthetics had still to achieve” (16). Untouched and unaffected by postmodernism, his chosen contemporary novelists “remobilise modernist narrative...

... of more or less compromised futures, scenario fictions emphasize the actual indeterminacy of the present that reality effects have historically elided and, at the same time, express an anxious attachment to familiar narratives that impose a sense of order onto otherwise unruly environments. To account...

...Bruce Barnhart In “DissemiNation,” Homi Bhabha argues that the nation form is composed of two distinct and often antithetical temporalities. It is my argument here that the American twentieth century can best be understood as a compromise formation between the temporality of the novel...

..., at one point, to regard as a substitute for his own youth. This incorrigible tendency to live his life through the experiences of others might seem to conflict with the goals of Bildung or aesthetic education, since, if nothing else, the experiences that constitute such an education ought surely...

... of a Lady . Ed. Stafford , William T. . New York: Vintage, 1992 . ———. The Wings of the Dove . New York: Oxford UP, 1998 . Jameson , Fredric . The Political Unconscious . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982 . Jöttkandt , Sigi . Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic...

... and squarely situates Coverdale's narration outside the "neutral territory" of Hawthorne's aesthetic compromise. In an effort to shore up his narrative posi- tion, Coverdale cedes whatever authority he has managed to retain. The reader is left without a yardstick to determine what is "real" and what...

... into a singular political project or fail to miss the opportunity to point out the unexpected ironies compromising the ostensible racism in Clay’s prints. One of the highlights of this section of the book is an extended reading of Robert Montgomery Bird’s novel Sheppard Lee (1837), which makes this weirdly...

... never really told the whole story. Or as Justus Nieland puts it in his engaging new book, Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life, in “ironizing” many of modernism’s most ostentatious claims about its own aesthetic purity we learn that “modernism [was] ordinary, a day job dependent like...

...: An Aesthetic for Democracy . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1999 . Hobsbawm Eric . “ War and Peace in the Twentieth Century .” London Review of Books 24 . 4 ( 2002 ): 16 – 18 . Jameson Fredric . “ Prussian Blues: Ein Weites Feld by Günter Grass .” London Review of Books 17 ( 1996 ): 3 – 7...