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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
... reflect this state of affairs, Herrera offers a sense of how the contemporary novel departs from this perspective, by taking up a version of the problem that Cartagena's photography similarly attempts to resolve—namely, how to make visible the abstract in the concrete. 4 For an excellent account...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 311–317.
Published: 01 August 2009
... is evidently distinguished by a new kind of concreteness: a devotion to what Hegel called the “unendingly particular.” Such a dialectic “without synthesis” between its abstract and concrete tendencies is the very historical condition of the novel form. Contra Lukács's own later attempt to redeem a less tragic...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of late capitalism, The Professor's House explores the possibilities of eroding capitalism from within by leveraging the concrete alternatives that already exist within and adjacent to it. Neither capitalist breakdown nor proletariat revolution appear on the horizon of the world Cather's protagonists...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Washington Black (2018), the article proposes that the framework of the global South novel is more relevant, as these novels respond to the same stimuli—disillusionment with the nation-state and globalization, and a concrete investment in subaltern solidarity as a counternarrative to these earlier reactions...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 190–195.
Published: 01 August 2009
... traction, arguments such as Fredric Jameson's about the third-world novel must consider the novel more concretely in relation to literacy and publication structures. Franco Moretti's collaborative Il romanzo begins to organize an apparatus of knowledge that might ground new theories in dialogue with media...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 438–452.
Published: 01 November 2013
... half of the novel with the embrace of a specific, concrete embodiment, which the relationship between Mordecai and Daniel outlines in the book's second half—that part that F. R. Leavis famously wanted, with a rather explicit emphasis on the materiality of the book, to cut away. As the novel traces...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
... is concrete and hers is a body from which the political spirit has been subtracted, making it very difficult to decipher her actions, then in 2014, Sanderson, as film critic Uri Klein mentions, fills in this emptiness and transforms Hagar from body to spirit only. She is always already meaning and only...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 342–362.
Published: 01 November 2008
... a very
concrete sense of the historical era during which these four characters toil and
struggle through everyday life, constantly obstructed and regulated by what
appears to be an endless series of accidents, coincidences, and random forces.
Accidents play a significant part in Mistry's...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 411–433.
Published: 01 November 2001
... and the
experience of The Golden Bowl is not an experience of marks upon a page. Instead,
the tactility of the writing consists in a figurative concretization of concepts, just
as the idea of a curve may be rendered as a stone arch.
One result of my essay's attention to aesthetic form is that it shows...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... as diagrammatic arrangements of inputs and outputs. It might also be understood as a novel about the violence implicit in such visualization. The descriptive slipperiness that becomes apparent when computer-network visions of subjectivity and sociality are implemented in concrete social space is doubled...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the necessity of origin, be it biological or geographic. Bernard reads Barghouti's memoir, I Saw Ramallah , as a critique of Said's celebration of his personal exile. The author's materialist aesthetic emphasizes concrete, everyday Palestinian experience, underscoring sense perception over idée recue...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., “a desire called cognitive mapping” (3). As Jameson gauges this desire and graphs what he identifies as “the geopolitical aesthetic,” he arrives at a formal contrast between works that concretize a “cartography of the absolute” (in metonyms of totality such as “conspiracy” plots) and works...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 198–218.
Published: 01 August 2003
...,"
whereby particular laws are always subject to contestation and revision, keep foundational
values in play. Such values may only be regulative ideas, but they are more concretely (and, if
not speculatively, then imaginatively) realized in what Heller calls our "moral sense" or
"moral...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 319–324.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., not a substance placed in objects at their birth.
Clune attributes claims made by Adam Smith and David Ricardo to Marx, whose three
volumes of Capital insist, again and again, that a given commodity’s value derives not from
the concrete labor responsible for its production but from the relationship between...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and story: On the level of soul-reality all those ties of the soul dissolve that are otherwise associated with its social situations, its classes, its origins and so on, and into their places step new, concrete relations binding soul with soul. The discovery of this new world was Dostoevsky's great deed...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the possibilities and limits
of those mechanisms within their novels. Arguing that educational writing forms a bridge
between abstract philosophical discussions of empiricist epistemology and the concrete
narrative innovations of the novel, Barney shows that "early modem educational writing
can...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 307–336.
Published: 01 November 2006
... community, of which nations continue to
form the prinapal units" (6). Forster's border-crossing imaginary is "international" rather than
"cosmopol~tan"because the transformative effects his novels describe require the concrete and
embodied differences that nations are seen to constitute...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., which includes a lengthy flashback. But whatever we might say about this passage, it is surely as concrete—or almost as concrete—as any in Balzac: Fitzgerald specifies the color of the hotel, its distance from Cannes, its varying clientele. My point in bringing up Tender Is the Night...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 366–372.
Published: 01 November 2009
... on “the awaken-
ing of national sensibility” (25). Walter Scott, the key figure of that book, charac-
teristically addresses a “given, concrete, . . . crisis of national history” (70); so too
Manzoni’s love story in I promessi sposi rises to the level of great historical realism
when it squarely represents...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 482–489.
Published: 01 November 2009
...
observed by instinct, characterizes the position which the great social novel of Eng-
land occupies in the development of our problem. It drew the attention of writers to
the concrete (ie, historical) significance of time and place, to social conditions and so
on, it created the realistic...
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