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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Terri Weissman This article considers the relationship between lens-based (or photographic) realism and the narrative realism of literary texts with the aim of constructing a model of durational aesthetics that takes into account the simultaneous singularity and ongoingness of the photographic...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2020
... a primitive form, various compositional genres give rise to unique experiences of duration as well as reflect on their purport. The novel, most important, but moral philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, and musicology all offer different ways of coming to grips with temporally bounded or punctuated...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
... openly by Esty, implicitly by my own work (in the Arrighian undertones of my Braudelian theory of recurrent seriality), and by implication in a complementary relation to Weissman's durational aesthetic. Nonetheless the impact of “Arrighian realism” is of greatest interest to Lye with respect...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
... contribution, only Weissman's recovery of a “durational aesthetics” latent within Meiselas's documentary photography and film seems to fit Goodlad's idea of a serializing realism. If we see these essays through the lens of financialization's nonlinear renarrativizations of time, however, we can put yet a finer...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 469–473.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the hermeneutic distance necessary to recognize duration’s value.
Like Prest, Charles Dickens’s novels are concerned with intersubjective experiences in
urban spaces; yet, unlike Prest, Dickens privileges an “affective-sensory aesthetic” over
hermeneutic effort (115). The fourth chapter places Dickens’s...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 292–295.
Published: 01 August 2021
... that “unacknowledged lines of dependence become more legible” (151). Jewusiak's innovative method raises lingering questions of immanence and reception aesthetics—to what extent can interpretation resist holding still its object? And what happens to duration during different reading practices, like skimming...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 115–120.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of question, partly because of the tautology between the
concept of day and the everydayness of the concept. To ask this question and to inquire, by
extension, into the daily and the everyday is for Bryony Randall’s Modernism, Daily Time,
and Everyday Life to perform the aesthetic attitude that it also...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 121–143.
Published: 01 May 2007
..." in the brain, but the reader can also link it
to the meditation on human time the novel keeps demonstrating. Perowne reg-
isters a Bergsonian duration in a thoroughly aesthetic mode when he hears his
son Theo play a "difficult, circular riff" with his combo, taking him to a world "in
which you give...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., the “pagan” time of winter break at winter solstice (60). We can think of this durational awareness as an extra-aesthetic transposition of the point that Dimock makes about James: form induces unpredictable ways of being in time, whether this is the form of a sentence that loops between multiple timescales...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 November 2020
... respond to temporal aporetics in such a way as to innovate queer time-schemes” (238). Here we arrive at what I think is the book's most compelling methodological intervention. Matz refuses the simplest type of ideology critique, which tends to draw a straight line between aesthetic form and political...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 August 2020
...: the urgency of addressing the current and continuing Western preoccupation with “Chinese riches” coupled with a strong sense of the long-durational quality of that preoccupation. Her work mirrors Kwan's capacious approach to the Asian material cultures each discusses and explores, more soberly, the novelist's...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 300–304.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to which Burney's contemporaries recognized her fiction's engagement with philosophical empiricism and experiential aesthetics. Camilla , Hershinow shows, dramatizes a conflict between competing schools of thought: on one hand, the belief that duration and familiarity are requisite to truly knowing...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that the once peripheral literature and cinema that conformed to Fredric Jameson's definition of Third World national allegories can now be read as symptoms of First World cultural production. This historical and aesthetic shift has made itself felt at the heart of Israeli daily life in the rearticulation...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 219–235.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and anxious concern that Japanese ambassadors of culture not be offended. The crucial intervention was made by G. K. Chesterton, who argued that the opera did not contain “a single joke against Japan” in a moment of just such panic: the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the opera for the duration of Prince...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of a realist aesthetics stages a critique of key assumptions of the narratives of emergency, which place the victims in an overly determined condition where meaningful action is impossible. The works of Mda, Farah, and Akpan restore historical agency to characters who experience extreme insecurity and provoke...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... both the immediacy and the focus on everydayness associated with novels of the realist tradition. 1 Outstripping the pace of individual human experience, it would seem, runs the risk of flattening the aesthetic complexity and qualifying the engagement of affective sympathy that typically credential...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 337–360.
Published: 01 November 2006
...MICHAEL SAYEAU Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Achebe , Chinua . “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Heart of Darkness . Ed. Paul B. Armstrong New York: Norton, 2006 . 336 –49. Adorno , Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory . Trans. Robert...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 444–462.
Published: 01 November 2022
... from persons in the world . . . characters are deduced from types,” but fictional characters are then given individual life through the novel's protracted duration (62). “The subtlety of such movements among referential levels . . . the softening and hardening from instances to generalities and back...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 538–545.
Published: 01 November 2009
... from themselves” that elevate aesthetic realism over social statistics. Con-
cerned to distinguish the realist novel from the sociological modes whose insights
it apportions to itself, Middlemarch here interrupts its story to draft its characters
into a quick public service announcement...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 276–300.
Published: 01 August 2012
... at comparing cultural forms that emerge at the end of
what, with self-conscious figural reach, I will call imperial life cycles. Do specific
aesthetic features emerge in the final phases of a world system’s long durational
“lifespan” or “biorhythm”? Those organic metaphors are the tropes that economic...
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