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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 218–239.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Amanpal Garcha Abstract In its depictions of characters' processes of decision-making, Jane Austen's Emma incorporates a model of choice that later came to dominate neoclassical economics. This model is preferential choice, which asserts that individuals choose based on their subjective...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 380–386.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Penny Fielding This essay address the problem of action in William Godwin's writing, comparing his characterization of the ethical decision in An Enquiry concerning Political Justice with his much more uneasy rendering of it in Caleb Williams . The novel, coming between the two editions...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 334–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty . Trans. Schwab George . Cambridge : MIT P , 1985 . Split Decision
arne de boever, States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee,
Sebald (New York: Continuum, 2012), pp...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
... reading: he strains to make Hamlet's famous indecisiveness into a beacon for his own decisionism, while relying on far too clean a distinction between art and history; Schmitt also “fell victim to the aestheticism he criticized” by privileging “decisiveness” as a character trait above all else in the play...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
... common-law jurisprudence of habeas corpus. To flesh out this history, the essay analyzes as an instance of dissensus the famous Somerset decision of 1772 on a writ of habeas corpus by Chief Justice of King's Bench William Murray, Lord Mansfield, upholding the freedom of an escaped slave who had been...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
... as liberalism's human surplus is thus rendered integral to the structure of opinion and decision. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 the mass statistical abstraction the Irish 1867 Reform Act 9 This taxonomy, which opposes affect to the named emotions, comes from Fredric Jameson 's...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 483–499.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Peter D. McDonald When J. Hilllis Miller first coined the phrase “the ethics of reading” in the mid-1980s, it constituted a decisive intervention in the overheated debates about the merits of deconstruction, inaugurating the so-called ethical turn within Anglo-American literary studies. Yet it also...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to understand what factors influence a writer's decision about which characters will carry on complex mind-reading reflections and which will have to settle for simpler ones, we have to look into historically contingent genre conventions and contemporary ideological preoccupations of the society. I conclude...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
... intangibility. Still, the true miracle in the novel is the reformation caused by the girl's superfluous writing. By thus staging a fable of domestication through verbal manners, Pamela contributes, decisively but problematically, to the consolidation of domestic fiction. Both the residual omnipresence...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 446–464.
Published: 01 November 2015
... by focusing attention on the specificities of literary analysis as a particular mode of judgment whose precepts and decisions do not always coincide with political or even ethical reason. Through a reading of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, this essay argues that this heuristic does not attempt to reconcile...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to the tune of thirty-seven studies and fifteen collections of documents in forty-three volumes. ( “Letter” xv; see fig. 1 ) 1 Thus begins the enormous, inchoate, partial, and multifarious “History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy,” the very famous but infrequently read document...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
... that endures to the end of the novel. James locates Isabel's consciousness inside this symbolic house while placing the vulgar world, including the crude forces that influence his heroine's decisions, beyond the bolted exit. The threat that this obscured vulgarity poses to Isabel recalls what F. O. Matthiessen...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of the lowbrow or to the pecuniary
profits that might flow from such taste, Davis has been chastised precisely for choosing
financial success and publication in middlebrow magazines. Dowling firmly challenges
this assessment of Davis’s career in several ways. He insists the decision to publish...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 August 2022
... economy whose center had shifted decisively from country to city and from agriculture to industrialization. While Wordsworth and Coleridge addressed much the same economic dilemma as Kant, in other words, they eschewed a political solution in favor of a cultural one: the lyric vitality of a system...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 210–225.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Survivor (1997–) to Steve McQueen's art-house film Hunger (2008). Abstraction results from a focus on delimited or capsule worlds in which option and decision, action and effect, have been extracted from everyday contexts and thus made unusually legible—for example, the life raft, the desert island...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 442–459.
Published: 01 November 2019
... a symbolic power that will sustain my decision,” he says, when J. first suggests that if One Eye wants to change his life, he “could always not go” to the publicity events (126). The narration thus offers the List as a symbol even though it has also emphasized its logistical contribution to the flux...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 6–9.
Published: 01 May 2012
... out. Why do we trust them enough to do the right thing? One
psychological answer—offered by what’s called evidential decision theory—is that
we can turn the vicious circle into a virtuous one: I can have confidence that you
won’t rat me out to the extent that I see you as thinking through things...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 16–36.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in a state of social and temporal reconstitution. Invisible Man provides a figure for the latent social energies inherent in this dynamic in the narrator's assertion at the very end of the novel that he “must emerge” (581). This decision, which effectively ends the novel, follows a series of critically...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and the captain, we see
that the judge’s decision hinges on an understood definition of the wordcoolie . He
states that
the contract is what is well known among a certain class of commercial adventur-
ers as “Coolie Charter”—an agreement by which American vessels, as well as others,
were fore...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in
order to consider the implications of a central decision that he made in adapting the
novel to the stage: his change of title. It would be reasonable to assume that
removing the well-known title of the novel one is adapting would pose the risk of
2 We might think of Fielding as observing quite...
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