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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and interpretation of novels, we would do well to understand precisely what we might lose in the process. For Levy-Hussen, there is “hermeneutical revelation” and “wonder,” one might say consolation , to be found in reading—and in critique (172). ...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the novel. The religious goal of the novel is to console women with the belief that the men they have lost are not dead, not absent, but present. The narrative implication of a belief in which death does not mark the difference between past and present is a story that does not know what tense to tell itself...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... In the archetypal bildungsroman, for instance, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship , Wilhelm's education is not complete until he can see himself as a “representative of the species,” in Schiller's phrase, and thus seek consolation for his own limitations in the achievements of other human beings. In this perspective...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Timothy Aubry Perhaps the most important discovery that James makes is just how many different forms consolation can assume. Some novels, such as W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (2001) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), use lyrical descriptions to qualify the bleakness of the worlds...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 207–215.
Published: 01 November 2007
... reiterated "ech-
oes" of critical past events, indefinitely deferring their (and our) grasp of the sig-
nificance of some original, "defining, transparent event" (Walkowitz 1072; 1052).
This attention to repetition, imitation, and echoing has created a body of work
resistant to the consolations...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 504–510.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in the glass, in my mourning-dress, a faded, hollow-eyed vision. Yet
I thought little of the wan spectacle. The blight, I believed, was chiefly external:
I still felt life at life’s sources” (96). Here Lucy seeks—and receives—consolation
from the mirror, which functions in a classical rather than...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 489–493.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Outka intriguingly terms the “consolation spectrum” of “post-pandemic spiritualism” (200) . Nimbly attending to narratives that feature ameliorating returns of the dead, she considers Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist (1926), a novel whose effort to “reimagine pandemic bodies and the sense...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 367–388.
Published: 01 November 2023
... will address such questions. But I do not want to take this interpretive practice for granted, for several reasons: first, in the context of a novel that raises big questions about exploitation, global inequality, complicity, consolation, the nature of humanity, and the meaning of life (to name a few), a focus...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 389–408.
Published: 01 November 2012
... loses some of its sting.
Even Catherine’s mortal passage, from which the central plot unfurls (not to
mention Heathcliff’s titanic passion and need for revenge), comes to hold some
consolations. Catherine’s absence brings with it a curious kind of presence. The
clearest explanation for her...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 28–55.
Published: 01 May 2000
... and plot but
even more importantly to the ways that Dickens stages the reception of Nell's
story both within the narrative itself and through its rhetorical formulations of
the meaning of her death. In response to didactic fiction, the "consolation" that
Nell's death should provide the reader...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 212–234.
Published: 01 August 2000
... surfaces, and a melancholic repetition of make-
up rituals that attempt and fail to offer real consolation for the strains of modem
urban life. Rhys's short stories of the 1920s exhibit traces of the first, in a
Baudelairean aestheticism, or the female modernist asflaneuse. Paris: "All up...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
Published: 01 August 2018
... strangers to pose together, touching one another. The resulting images highlight the way that intimacies can appear simultaneously authentic and false, awkward and consoling, and how intimacy itself may always involve all of these contradictory elements. When critics claim world literature as a mode...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Head, in his study of McEwan's work up to and including Saturday ( 2005 ), suggests that a “refusal of consolation” is a defining and even exaggerated element in McEwan's fiction: “Even the positive resolution of novels like Enduring Love and The Child in Time still leaves us deeply unsettled...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 212–215.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., and will console only those who do not worry about the
contemporary ideological ramifications of the works they teach. Nevertheless, we should
not forget that the writerly project of amnesia is almost always insecure, agonistic,
JOHN KUCICH I AMNESIAC FICTION
incomplete...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2007
... ? But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces eve ything
before it. In the meantime, it is always preparing, though it is not seen or heard.
That is your consolation. Keep it. (177-78)
Vengeance that rolls down like waters may be "consolation," but it isn't justice.
The natural...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 May 2007
... literature's investment in the "not-yet" as an
"imaginative consolation for loss," a model of nationalism as compensation borrowed
from Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. Strikingly new, however, is the insis-
tence on reading Anderson's model in terms of Freud's familiar distinction between...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 336–339.
Published: 01 August 2013
... machines and factory workers are
not antagonistic to the psychic depth and interiority that criticism tends to associate with
literary character; on the contrary, automatic actions are replete with “emotional depth,
intensity, and consolation” (98). Moreover, animal habit and mechanical reflex...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the harmless pleasures of the imagination and the comforts and consolations of private life. Real places cannot hold utopian societies, they insisted—even in fictions. On the other hand, it refers to a changing attitude toward non-Europeans in the course of the transformation of the Age of Discovery...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 398–422.
Published: 01 November 2003
...-in short, the notions of character that
had always had a hand in talking about war--could offer little consolation to a
generation for whom individual agency had been overwhelmed by mechanized
warfare and staggering numbers of the dead and missing.
If legal certainty, however, is often viewed...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 November 2010
... among strangers that promises a certain experience of belonging
and provides a complex of consolation, confirmation, discipline, and discussion about how
to live” (viii). The challenge in writing a review of The Female Complaint includes the need to
consider its project along with Berlant’s...
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