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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
... genres such as the photographic collection and documentary (forms to which Meiselas turned in the effort to do justice to her subject). The durational aesthetic offers “a way to refuse the temporality of defeat, a way to refuse narrative closure while maintaining narrative as the source of causation...
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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
...). 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, skipping, or even not reading? However, his recuperation of surface...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 115–120.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and the everyday is for Bryony Randall’s Modernism, Daily Time,
and Everyday Life to perform the aesthetic attitude that it also seeks to analyze, since to pour
attention on the day, the daily, and the everyday is to bring the ordinary into view. The
power to make the day and the everyday special...
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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
... an exceptional faith in the power of the aesthetic to shape the way we live our lives. Given, however, that these facts are so well known, it is hard to see exactly what is novel about the claim that modernist works want us to understand time in a new way or that, with a concept as abstract and vexing...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... Zuroski's scholarly history of the emergence of orientalism shares what might best be characterized as the double timeliness of Kwan's novel: the urgency of addressing the current and continuing Western preoccupation with “Chinese riches” coupled with a strong sense of the long-durational quality...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 300–304.
Published: 01 August 2021
... 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 someone; on the other, a conviction that people, as well as objects, are seen most...
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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
... the experience to the purely aesthetic (another iteration of the “sublime,” perhaps). One is always returned to the Anthropocene. And while the disorienting sense of scalar incommensurability that it produces helps to account for why the concept is so difficult to circumscribe, it might also indicate the degree...
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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 (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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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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