.... These correspondences derive, this essay argues, from the letter's material properties, which underlie its ability to function as metaphor. The letter's temporal structure of delay and the silences and instability that delay produces, in particular, have productive affinities with the workings of the differend...

... dilation of detail and delaying narrative drive, a descriptive mode that was particularly suited to the requirements of natural theology. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Austen , Jane . Emma . Ed. Kinsley James. New York: Oxford UP, 2003 . Barthes , Roland . The Rustle...

... idiosyncratic conception of masochism itself. She uses the term to describe what others might call erotic delay, or sexual teasing: that is, the pleasurable pain one experiences by prolonging erotic arousal instead of rushing toward climax. It comes as no surprise, of course, that nineteenth-century British...

... texts deploy and evoke wonder is defamiliarization. This she sees operating in myriad ways via strategies of “delayed decoding; suspenseful plot; estranging language; and switching between different narrative points of view” (30). Of these, delayed decoding seems to me the most cogent and intriguing...

... historical novel—as we see in José Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Quixote as well—the itinerary of novel history begins to delay that consolida- tion at least until the end of the nineteenth century and the arrival of the more thoroughgoingly positivistic naturalist mode. This delay then sets...

... this argument, Evans returns to the fifty-year delay in the development of the culture concept, a delay he attributes to "very old Enlightenment ideas about Bildu~zg" that offered "both Du Bois and Boas a surer route toward cultural politics" (154). Their reli- ance on Bildung provides the cx~.nmonground...

... the blow of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. Rastogi's framing of HIV/AIDS as a slow-burn disaster whose recognition as disaster in South Africa was delayed may be partly informed by then president Thabo Mbeki's questioning of the role of socioeconomic precarity in the pace of progression of HIV to full-blown...

... to the fragments . . . and she could already distinguish the element of relief, absolutely of succor . . . [in] every added inch of reflexion and delay . . . by her helping him, helping him to help himself . . . , she should help him to help her. Hadn't she fairly got into his labyrinth with him? . . . She...

...- ized and more random: the absorption of the narrative is bound to be interrupted, postponed, and protracted by the variably visitant pressures (work, sleep, passion, panic) that shape ordinary days and sculpt ordinary reading. Delay in long novels is always doubled: it is built into both...

.... Significantly, this delay creates a central gap in the novel—a textual blind spot—where visual impairment is presented without being clearly pronounced. The imperceptibility of low vision throws doubt onto Sterne's self-proclaimed “exceptional powers of observation” (255). Even more important is the way...

... to deliver the missive/message from sender to receiver, in fact, as we all know, there is often a difference between what is intended with communication and what actually happens. The functioning of the post in the actual world leads to every kind of communication failure: temporal delay, physical...

... but occupies a hesitant zone of anonymity and interpolation because of this delay.5 Naipaul himself provides a remarkable metaphor for this spatial delay in The Minzic A.letz, that of "parenthesis" (38). As the narrator Ralph Singh elaborates: he is the latecomer, a sort of "picturesque Asiatic" (287...

... Moretti’s analysis of the corpora is an unstated assumption that the novel is the entelechy of global modernity and vice versa. All this rearguard vitalism from the grand theorists of the novel is a last stand against the brave new world of postmodernity. Depth, subjectivity, and the delayed...

... of obsolete items. The addition of the notes delayed publication of the story, and the notes themselves are “out of place” and “belated” (155), inserted at a remove from the textual details they are meant to illuminate: the footnotes are “a sort of formal waste because of their relationship of extraneousness...

... inability to know what it is realty wanting, thinking or doing, Weinstein undertakes to "plot" mcdernism along a narrative axis marked by dissimulation, deferral, and delay. He is particularly alert, as one might expect, to Freud's account of how cunning the mind can be in defending itself against...

... opinion, in particular the criticisms—made by Cooper in The Ways of the Hour (1850)—of democratic self-regulation for the injury it inflicts via speculation on the individual and also on society. To be fair, Margolis needs to delay consideration of Alexis de Tocqueville's view of “the tyranny...

... perpetrations and counterattacks between the mercenary army and the Carthaginians, is “nowhere to be seen,” its view eter- nally withdrawn or “delayed.” All we can see are the “primitive figures” appearing in the depth of its countless folds. If the veil eludes grasp, Gasché extrapolates here...

... that cannot be identical to itself, marked as it is by an anterior division and delay. For Hägglund, this “logic of survival” is the condition of desire and underwrites “every moment of life,” making impossible any compatibility between deconstruction, which he proffers as a “radical atheism,” and theological...

..., fragmented, and anecdotal irregularity” of the narrative might delay the satisfaction of narrative closure, but in doing so, it encourages its readers to resist duration's reduction to narrative teleology and to dwell, like the women of Cranford, in a slower temporality, one activated by sharing local...

... of Sanctuay sees .~asculinesex- ual aggression recast as impotence and female castration. The novel sustains the logic of obscenity law, she argues, by simultaneously depicting and mas* a horrific rape with a corncob in a narrative that negates itself through prolepsis, repetition, and delay. Finally...