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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
... out on Earth, those ships who escaped its orbit discover how to interact with higher dimensions, which might allow humans unprecedented powers of travel. For a while, this “experience of high-dimensional spatial sense was a spiritual baptism. In one moment, concepts like freedom , openness...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 August 2010
... 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
familiar and the familiar strange” (109). In the fifth chapter, “Beyond the Tyranny of Place,”
she turns her attention...
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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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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of various origins and classes” ( 34 ). 16 Critics have considered the doubloon as part of a critical appraisal of US-Latin American relations ( Lazo 229–35 ; Barrenechea 19, 23 ), but the coin's travels indicate Melville is at least as interested in the global dimensions of Americanity as in inter...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 375–378.
Published: 01 August 2010
... call Anderson’s approach cen-
tripetal, except that we have no reason to assume the novel is the center of his archive in
the first place. Not that he reads novels exclusively for their sociological content—there is
clearly a significant aesthetic dimension to his relation with them...
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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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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of that class after the civil rights movement.
The expression of Sarah’s fraught class alliances through the formal features of
the narrative has a temporal dimension that is equally important. The novel begins
in 1974 in Paris, where Sarah has taken up a self-imposed exile from what she
terms...
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