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Cultural Studies and the Novel
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 360–364.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Nicholas Daly In this short article, Daly considers the history of literary cultural studies from its heyday in the 1990s to its current more modest position. There are a number of reasons one could adduce for its slide into relative marginality, including the predictable dilution...
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Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2024
... desirable man there,” and “the most dramatic, most verbally entertaining queen” ( 56 ). In his study of gay culture, David Halperin extrapolates from Newton's observation a generalized account of gay sociality. The beauty and the camp are “equally necessary” to gay social life, providing sexual interest...
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“Every Guy Has His Own Africa”: Postwar Anthropology in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 275–295.
Published: 01 August 2013
... . Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study in Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation . New York : Morrow , 1928 . ———. Preface . Cultural Patterns and Technical Change: A Manual Prepared by the World Federation for Mental Health . Ed. Mead Margaret . New York : New American Library...
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The Emergence of the Global South Novel: Red Sorghum , Présence Africaine , and the Third Novelists' International
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
...' international” ( 51 ). Mo's Red Sorghum can be located in such a genealogy. At the same time, it draws attention to the significance of the political and literary legacies of a “third novelists' international”—a novelistic culture associated with the rise and waning of Third Worldism—for contemporary studies...
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The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Modernist Haunting
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 268–291.
Published: 01 August 2011
...: they are at once a holdover from Victorian mass culture (to be repudiated
because it is both Victorian and popular) and function according to the logic of
that holdover, insisting that a wrong has been done and demanding restitution
for it. For modernist studies, the bad conscience is a repetition...
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Peripheral Urbanism, Imperial Maturity, and the Crisis of Development in Lao She's Rickshaw and Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Caitlin Vandertop Abstract The theory of combined and uneven development has provided a new interpretive framework for studies of the novel in recent years, opening up connections between the central premise that capitalism produces an “amalgam of archaic with more contemporary forms” and modernist...
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Importing the Novel: The Arabic Novel in and as Translation
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 243–260.
Published: 01 August 2015
... for Culture in 2007 heralds it as “the first Arabic novel” and thereby stakes its claim in one of the central debates of Arabic literary studies, al-Khūrī himself seemed less interested in establishing this status. Though he wrote not one but two introductions to this work, neither announces the inauguration...
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Mediation, Reading, and Yorick's Sentimental Vehicle
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . Bobker Danielle . “ Carriages, Conversation, and A Sentimental Journey .” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 35 ( 2006 ): 243 – 66 . Burgess Miranda . “ On Being Moved: Sympathy, Mobility, and Narrative Form .” Poetics Today 32 . 2 ( 2011 ): 289 – 321 . Carter Elizabeth...
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Visual Storytelling: Cinematic Ekphrasis in the Latin American Novel of Globalization
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...
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Walter Scott's Loose Leaves: Books, Scraps, and Dispersive Reading
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 480–500.
Published: 01 November 2022
... . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2019 . Gallagher Catherine . “ Review of Disorienting Fictions: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels, by James Buzard .” Victorian Studies 49 . 1 ( 2006 ): 109 – 11 . Garside Peter . “ Print Illustrations and the Cultural...
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Of Race, Gender, and the Novel; or, Where in the World Is Toni Morrison?
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in transforming the genre of the novel, the nature of literary studies, and the makeup of the academy at least since the early 1970s. This essay argues that while as a Nobel Laureate, as a distinguished university professor, as an exemplary literary and cultural critic, and as a legendary editor at Random House...
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The Sound of Incest: Sympathetic Resonance in Melville's Pierre
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
... dialogue with inanimate objects reflects the special problem that the incest taboo poses to debates between cultural and biological approaches to the study of human behavior. The sound of incest in Pierre thus can be seen to generate a metaphysical skepticism that does not frustrate desire but sustains...
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Austen and Translation: National Characters, Translatable Heroines, and the Heroine as Translator
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Isbell John . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1998 . D'hulst Lieven . “Cultural Translation: A Problematic Concept?” Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury . Ed. Pym Anthony Shlesinger Miriam Simeoni Daniel . Amsterdam : Benjamins , 2008...
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Nella Larsen's Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Bentley's insightful study demonstrates how James and Wharton in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transform the novel of manners in response to cultural shifts in the definition of manners. Their experiments with manners, I argue, give way to Larsen's exploration of passing within this shifting...
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Close Reading at a Distance: Bleak House
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Daniel Hack This essay argues that a combination of the frequently opposed methods of book history and reception studies, on the one hand, and those of formal analysis and close reading, on the other, is needed to illuminate the cultural work done by and with novels. Taking as my example...
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Modernismo and Modernization
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and modernization in Latin America that questions some of the central assumptions
of cultural studies. Chapters 4-8 are devoted to the analysis of different episodes and
authors of Latin American modernity: tnodemismci, Borges, Vallejo, Rulfo, Carpentier.
While the first three chapters pursue a deductive...
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The Character Effect
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 443.
Published: 01 November 2006
... as poststructuralism gave way to historicism, to neo-
formalism, and, more recently, to cultural studies. Yet, as the titles of key monographs on the
topic suggest-Nobody's Story, The Economy of Characfer, and The One us. the Many-work
in this field tends to proceed by addressing not character per se...
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Consuming Authenticity
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 302–304.
Published: 01 August 2011
... in literary, social,
and cultural studies over the status and effects of an increasingly mass-oriented commer-
cial culture in the early twentieth century. These debates include the discussions of newly
calibrated commercial metropolitan places and spaces—with the birth of the department
store...
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The Culture of Modernism
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 365–366.
Published: 01 November 2004
... is quoting Deborah Jacobs's essay,
"Feminist Criticism/Cultural Studies/Modernist Texts: A Manifesto for the '90s," which
is included in Lisa Rado's 1994 collection~RereadingModernism: New Directions in Femi-
nist Criticism). This re-mapping of modernism undertaken by a plethora of late twentieth...
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Intimacy and Politics in the Age of Globalization
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 154–157.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Shameem Black Rethinking the Romance Genre fluently brings together the materialist sensibilities of feminist cultural studies, the comparative strategies of postcolonial literary and visual studies, and the formal concerns of genre scholarship to offer a valuable humanistic approach...
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