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Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic Novel
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of the notion of black kinlessness. In this narrative, a black Harvard undergraduate convinces his white classmate to undergo an operation that will temporarily make him a “Negro.” Once he undergoes the operation, however, the student discovers he has entered “the fourth dimension of color,” a new domain...
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Casting Shadows at Chesney Wold: Empty-House-Time and Realism in the British Novel
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and Virginia Woolf's construction, this article proposes empty-house-time as a distinctive narrative chronotope, one that nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers use to investigate the processes of realist fiction, especially its affective dimensions. Taking the character-less built environment...
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Making Meaning Meaningful: Intertextuality and Identification in Never Let Me Go and Daniel Deronda
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 367–388.
Published: 01 November 2023
... from doing so. Intertextual reading brings this reverse quixotism to light and reveals its dimensions, as the intertextual reader tracks the connections that the novel's anti‐identificatory characters refuse to make and considers the motives for and costs of this refusal. The most significant intertext...
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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
... the individual over the collective. The “marked” form of individuality that is gay identity is often suffused by collectivity in a way that is not the case in novels with “unmarked” protagonists. The simultaneously personal and collective dimensions of gay life are also evident in the reception of gay novels...
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Constitutional Laziness and the Novel: Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O'brien's At Swim-Two-Birds
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 86–108.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the coincidence that they were written at the same time. While the constitution attempts to fix a version of Irish identity preferred by the state, At Swim-Two-Birds _draws on constitutional rhetoric to stress performativity and the flexibility of identity, a utopian dimension that proves unsustainable...
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Envy and Victorian Fiction
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 297–303.
Published: 01 August 2009
... destructive impulses that psychically inhere in relations among characters as well as between characters and readers. This article charts some of the brutal terms and effects of such envy in three Victorian novels, investigating its psychical, social, and ethical dimensions in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit...
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The Novel in Distress
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Benjamin's “The Storyteller,” arguing that the literary text and the critical essay reach comparable insights into the ideological dimensions of the struggle to rehabilitate oral narrative practices. The second section takes these insights as the point of departure for an examination of the functional...
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Impossible Closure: Realism and Durational Aesthetics in Susan Meiselas's Nicaragua
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
... as well as historical event. Photographic “realism” has been diversely conceived, defined, and redefined since the medium's “invention” in the early nineteenth century. Yet to the various existing definitions and conceptions of the term, I seek to add a temporal dimension by looking at how durational...
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Phineas Finn , the Statistics of Character, and the Sensorium of Liberal Personhood
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
... this constitution of character through collectivity, it disrupts both the interiorized mental procedures of Millian liberalism and our own critical practice of reading characters as metaphysically more than the cultural information of which they are composed. By unleashing statistical sciences into the dimension...
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Realism's Ghosts: Science and Spectacle in Tom Jones
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 50–72.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Joseph Drury The performative dimension of Fielding's fiction has often frustrated the attempts of critics to read the machinery of his plot through the lens of rationalist Enlightenment philosophy. Rather than a deity or benevolent magistrate, Fielding's narrator has seemed more like a trickster...
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Excess and Design in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 342–362.
Published: 01 November 2008
... if the literary text still represents one of the most
important objects of study in postcolonial studies, the literary dimension has of-
ten been reduced to serve a narrow set of canonized expectations of what
constitutes a proper, and properly representative, postcolonial literary text...
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Exquisite Corpus
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 299–302.
Published: 01 August 2006
... circulate as floating signifiers in our national
culture. Abdul JanMohamed positions his new book as at once an extension of this current
and a nuanced polemic against it. In his view cultural studies has been especially preoccu-
pied with death as a symbolic dimension of culture--an approach which...
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Racialization, Capitalism, and Aesthetics in Stoker’s Dracula
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 42–60.
Published: 01 May 2002
... whiteness with the productivity of late capital-
ism and on how that alliance allows whiteness to claim regenerative powers.'
' Several critics have explored capitalist dimensions of Victorian constructions of whiteness but
without considering the specifically regenerative ideology they made...
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Fiction, Restriction, and Real Money
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 487–491.
Published: 01 November 2012
... that the symbolic dimension of exchange never completely disappears, since
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money always requires some kind of symbolic guarantor. Money capitalizes on signature-
effects in order to presuppose and reproduce faith in its own functioning; and though it
circulates past...
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Carl Schmitt in Outer Space: On Cixin Liu's “Dark Forest”
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
...,” and “the destruction of civilizations is a common occurrence that happens every second” ( Three-Body 370 ). When humans encounter a higher-dimensional form of life later, it too confirms that while “no dark forest state” exists “between spaces of different dimensions,” it “exists everywhere between those sharing...
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Geographies of South Africa
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of apartheid’s forced removal of
black people from their land. In the fourth chapter, “A Man’s Scenery,” Barnard reads the
major plays of Fugard to unveil thematic and performative dimensions of what she calls
the “space of translation”—that is, a form of dramatic practice that “makes the strange seem...
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The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Amazon
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
... nature as an aesthetic problem posed by the Boom authors in response to previous regionalist fiction. 3 The documentary dimension of the novels he calls “primitive,” as well as their social critique and apparent lack of concern for form, were targets for Vargas Llosa's attack. He concludes...
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Incorporated into Humanity
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 375–378.
Published: 01 August 2010
... for their sociological content—there is
clearly a significant aesthetic dimension to his relation with them—but it is probably fair to
say that in an epistemological sense, the novel is a secondary object of his inquiry.
Joseph R. Slaughter has achieved something unique in his book Human Rights, Inc...
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Beyond Mutuality: The Surprising Possibilities of Nonreciprocal Relationship
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 296–299.
Published: 01 August 2015
...David Collings Yousef Nancy , Romantic Intimacy ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2013 ) , pp. 182, cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 In Romantic Intimacy , a subtle and cogent intervention, Nancy Yousef begins with a problematic dimension...
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Melville's Quixoticism and the Modern World-System
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... By giving his moment's iniquity these spatial and temporal dimensions, Melville anticipates more recent accounts of globalization by world-systems theorists. As Immanuel Wallerstein has argued, the global order in which Melville lived and that we continue to inhabit emerged in the sixteenth-century Atlantic...
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