... . Complete Poetry and Collected Prose: Leaves of Grass. 1855 . Ed. Kaplan Justin . New York : Library of America , 1982 . Introduction: Is the Novel Democratic? NANCY RUTTENBURG In a February 2000 letter to the novelist Martin Amis, Saul Bellow wrote: ‘‘I long ago understood...

... in the nation's cultural and political life, when forms of political engagement, democratic or anti-democratic, were at issue: Mori Ogai's 1890 The Dancing Girl , in the first mature bloom of Japan's cultural modernity and the formative years of a new democratic state; Natsume Soseki's 1914 Kokoro , during...

... and erudite paratext, to acknowledge readers without delimiting their scale. Drawing on reading history and political literary theory, in particular the work of Jacques Rancière, the essay argues that this shift democratizes address. Democratic address capitalizes on the indiscriminate relationship between...

... considers Zhou's fiction theory as a part of the transition from the old democratic revolution led by the Chinese bourgeoisie to the new democratic cultural initiative carried out by the enlightened intelligentsia and progressive working people. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press...

... both to legitimize “the People” of democracy and to manage the inherent instability in that category, and dominant theoretical models for explaining literature's democratic potential have also relied on and naturalized those mechanisms. Yet Krik? Krak! indexes the many exclusions smuggled in through...

...Dierdra Reber Abstract This essay traces a conceptual through-line from the twenty-first century crisis of democratic institutionality, explained as an effect of contemporary neoliberalism, back to the eighteenth-century discursive origins of free-market capitalism. On both ends of this temporal...

... of Literature ), his work on pedagogy and aesthetics, and the literature of novel theory in the twentieth century, including the work of Georg Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin. Rancière's insistence upon the “democratic” quality of the novel form presents a quandary for many readers, due to his reluctance to speak...

... a “caucus-race” is doing in Wonderland, this essay looks at the history of the caucus, recent political theories of democracy, Lewis Carroll's mathematical work on the theory and practice of elections, and, finally, his literary thinking about what it might really mean to live democratically. © 2014...

...Meltem Gürle Be it the top-down secularism of the Kemalist reforms or the authoritarian conservatism of the present Islamist government, the political will in Turkey has persistently ignored the individual, the most valuable component of democratic modernity. The Turkish bildungsroman voices...

... Latin American authors: Peruvian José María Arguedas and Argentine Ricardo Piglia. In the same way that there is a notion of the literary peculiar to Latin America, there is a particular set of challenges that provide a unique shape to the Latin American democratic project. In the case of Piglia...

... as it is the novelistic subject. Turned in such a light, the genre of the novel can be seen as one that marshals aesthetic resources toward generating horizontal collectivities (democratic structures, for instance) that are distinct from, and in tension with, vertically oriented genealogical kinship structures. I argue...

... as an anthropomorphic project, the medium of human progress, with the erosion of the social-democratic nation state as basis for an alternative politics to neoliberal capitalism in the shadow of global environmental catastrophe. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 bildungsroman historical novel...

... the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, which did not yet exist in the novel's timeframe. The Met's impossible location and its uncataloged holdings open to public viewing upset New York's social and aesthetic hierarchies. It is in this anachronistic and democratic context that Archer first sees “love...

...Paul Hurh In recent criticism of Herman Melville's Pierre , Pierre's incestuous desire poses a challenge to the sympathetic model of democratic sociality: in transgressing filial distinctions, it erases the difference that makes sympathy possible and illustrates a limit point to the fantasy...

... depopulation within his novel, Joyce transforms a realist character-system based on the premises of scarcity and an overpopulation of characters. The search for a more inclusive and democratic mode of representing population leads him (via the street directory that he used to plan Ulysses ) to the Irish census...

.... The conclusion briefly describes the neoliberal Democratic Party that emerged after the 1980s, whose commitment to the working class and to African American voters in particular Szalay sees as waning. Against Toni Morrison's endorsement of Bill Clinton as the “first Black president”—and a seemingly fine...

... serious and groundbreaking theories of the democratic public sphere” (1). More specifically, the argument is that literature, “at a particular moment in American history,” offers theories of public opinion as networks, social networks forged in and out of doors through encounters between friends...

... and to the American soil. Sheppard Lee responds to critics' fears—grown acute as the democratization that brought Andrew Jackson to power gained momentum—that the United States would never find such ties and as a result never be able to sustain a national novel tradition. These critics could not share John C...

... Edmund S. Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty . New York : Norton , 1988 . Mouffe Chantal . The Democratic Paradox . London : Verso , 2000 . Ruttenburg Nancy . Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship . Stanford...

...Stacey Margolis Smith Caleb , The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2013 ) , pp. 264, cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Work Cited Ruttenburg Nancy . Democratic...