..., the interruption of “homogeneous, empty time,” the attempt to introduce a poetics of history, and the interrogation of secular models of explanation. Since these questions also intrude upon the world of fiction, we might ask: to what extent does the novel now depend upon the critique of historicism? © 2009...

... . Wills , David . Prosthesis . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995 . Disabling Postmodernism: Wideman, Morrison and Prosthetic Critique SHERI I. HOEM " .. . embodiment is significant prosthesis...

...Anna Kornbluh As the paradigmatic trend in literary study at present, “postcritique” implies that a great epoch of critique has come to a close. Taking the charge to look back over fifty years of Marxist theory of the novel, this polemic argues that critique cannot come to a close because it has...

... seems to me an irreducibly important pre-condition for politics—and a pre-condition that literature is uniquely equipped to address” (171). To put this idea another way, before we choose to embrace surface reading or to jettison critique and interpretation of novels, we would do well to understand...

... UP , 2011 . Cheng Anne . The Melancholy of Race . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2000 . Chuh Kandice . Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique . Durham : Duke UP , 2003 . Jung Soya . Left or Right of the Color Line? Asian Americans and the Racial Justice Movement...

... . "Trading Places in Fancy": Hawthorne's critique of Sympathetic Identifcation in The Blithedale Romance FRANK CHRISTIANSON 1 am not sure that . . . the Blithedale Romance [is]not, strictly speaking, [a] novel rather than [a]romance...

... into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1976 . Williams , Raymond . The Country and the City . New York: Oxford UP, 1973 . From City to Country: An Outline of Fluvio-Critique RICHARD TERDIMAN "0...

..., but the process by which it shapes and distorts the language is brought to the fore rather than allowed to rest. (159) Phillips's critique of Stevenson and London is moderated as he turns to their fictional works. The longest chapter is devoted to The Wrecker , which ambitiously concludes with the claim...

...Thom Dancer This essay argues that a critique of epistemological immodesty is at the center of Ian McEwan's literary project. His fiction dramatizes the dangerous and tragic consequences of granting one's own interpretative frameworks a certainty and authority that they do not warrant. Enduring...

..., as Bruno Bosteels rightly notes, “displays a brilliant use of the free indirect style of speech.” Style regards the arrangement of peoples, places, and events into collectivities. In this essay I elaborate Rancière's political style of writing. I begin by tracing Rancière's debt to Karl Marx's critique...

... but to fundamental changes in the theory and organization of knowledge itself (compare Umberto Eco's From Tree to Labyrinth ). Drawing on Bernard Stiegler's theory of the “proletarianization of consumption” in the postmodern “libidinal economy,” I read Flaubert as offering a prophetic Marxist critique...

... for understanding their own relationship to the world around them. This article argues that Jurassic Park and On Such a Full Sea reject the possibility of representing reality as a way to understand what a novel is. While speculative fiction primarily has been read as a popular vehicle for political critique...

... of the bildungsroman, or novel of aesthetic education, in order to meet the challenges of modernity; at the same time they critique a then-hegemonic version of modernism that argued that the nature of twentieth-century society required writers to make a radical break with conventional literary aesthetics. Uncoupling...

... experimentation with referentiality toward her own critique of how events get represented, arguing that The Book of Salt plays with Steinian aesthetics in order to offer a critique of the structures of power that grant the racialized subject visibility. Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh become subjects of history...

...Rose Casey Drawing upon research into Indian property law, this essay offers a new perspective on both the feminist interventions and the aesthetic innovations of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things . This essay is the first to show how The God of Small Things' feminist critique is established...

... Petro's puppet show in Don Quixote demonstrate the inseparability of romance and realism; realism too depends on the pleasures of enchantment, a transformation of the real that depends on the same effects the novel critiques in its moments of demystification. If the Quixote is modern, it is not because...

... Allan Poe and participate in recent critical approaches to the father of detective fiction that read him in the context of the racial discourse of his day, and (2) critique the hierarchical thinking that both banishes comics to the realm of the “subliterary” and sustains racist ideology. In this sense...

... colonial governance of common-law courts in South Africa. Bringing together Rancière's critique of Giorgio Agamben's theory of bare life and the exploration of the troubled judicial conscience of the magistrate in Coetzee's novel, the essay further argues that Waiting for the Barbarians calls into question...

...Seb Franklin This essay takes the diagrammatic formulations of trauma and networks that are both presented and critiqued in Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel Remainder as the occasion to sketch some elements of a methodology for critical analysis in the age of computational thinking. By locating...

...Ann duCille Treating the popular and academic discourse surrounding Toni Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 as a case in point, this essay critiques the ways in which race and gender—“black” and “female”—have been used as loaded signifiers to limit, qualify, segregate...