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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 299–302.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Marijeta Bozovic Setting as her task, ultimately, a poignant rescue of literature and literary studies from positivist area studies models, Starosta defines her Eastern Europe as an imaginary of belatedness, untimely remainders, and unstable forms. Reading, in turn understood as “an encounter...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 374–377.
Published: 01 November 2008
... in the economic constitution and discursive
imagination of the global, this book urges us to take seriously the material histories and
written cultures of a region that-until now-has been a lacuna in colonial and
postcolonial studies.
WEIHSIN GUI, Eastern...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 August 2009
... novel represents a late nineteenth-century struggle to define authorship as a form of production inspired by Eastern manual artistry, thus forcing us to reconceptualize the popular phrase “craft of writing” in transcultural as well as transgeneric terms. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Julie Beth Napolin [email protected] Daniel Ryan Morse , Radio Empire: The BBC's Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel ( New York : Columbia UP , 2021 ), pp. 288 , paper, $35.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 When in the 1930s...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 534–536.
Published: 01 November 2016
... understand the work of a range of American and Eastern European authors, including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, Philip Roth, Milan Kundera, D. R. Popescu, and Danilo Kiš, as exercises in contemporaneity. This may seem like a fairly simple suggestion. But in Cucu's book it is not. Far from it. Cucu gives us...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 537–541.
Published: 01 November 2016
... couched in the colonialist discourse of humanitarian intervention to prevent the “supposedly endemic” practice of hand mutilation (103). In texts by Victoria Cross, Kipling, Doyle, and William Le Queux, both native and Western women are mutilated at the hands of “Eastern” tyrants, often as punishment...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 243–260.
Published: 01 August 2015
...]. Cairo : Maktabat al-Majlis al-ʿAlā lil-Thiqāfa , 2007 . Khuri-Makdisi Ilham . The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism . Berkeley : U of California P , 2010 . Lamartine Alphonse de . Souvenirs, impressions, pensées, et paysages pendant un voyage en orient...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 May 2010
....
The day that followed I have no more power of describing, than of analyzing a dream
to its component parts of sanity, delirium, defeated memory, and triumphant imagi-
nation. The Sultan in the eastern tale who plunged his head in a basin of water, and,
before he raised it again, passed...
Journal Article
Novel (2003) 36 (3): 374–397.
Published: 01 November 2003
.... The Expansion of England [1883]. London: Macmillan, 1921 . Sherry , Norman . Conrad’s Eastern World . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966 . Soja , Edward . Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory . London: Verso, 1989 . Van Ghent , Dorothy...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): v.
Published: 01 November 2008
.... ROBERT D. ACUIRRE is Associate Professor of English at Wayne State
University and the author of Irijurrnai Ewrpirc,: Mecoarrd Central Anr~,ricnin Virtoriarr C~rlfltre.WEIHSIN
CUI is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and is currently at work on a book
titled "Residual...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 277–278.
Published: 01 August 2003
... general questions: What does it
mean to be a Jewish Hungarian born around WWII, at a moment when being Jewish meant
(for many) the opposite of being Hungarian? Furthermore, what does it mean to be a Jewish
Hungarian immigrant to America-which is to say, how does being an Eastern European...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 261–263.
Published: 01 August 2000
... and wife); were often marginal to British na-
tional boundaries (came from Ireland, Scotland, Australia, and Eastern Europe) and so
were "ethnic" or "exotic"; and were ambiguously situated in relation to authorship (were
they professionals or amanuenses, public or domestic, canonical...
Journal Article
Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... been a grafting of traditional Cold War hostilities onto various ‘nationalisms'” ( “Cultural” 109 ). This is because, “[g]iven the success of Iran and the decline of the Soviet sphere, nationalisms in Africa, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere devolved from the classical anticolonial model associated...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 August 2009
... kilometers. East Timor has been firebombed by Indonesia.
Famine is claiming 1,400 lives daily in Bangladesh. A virulent outbreak of a synthetic
bubonic plague—the red plague—is endemic in Eastern Australia. . . . Cholera is
creeping up the Central American isthmus. (416)
Or for a different...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... won—routes that included
engaging with indigenous belief systems more deeply than was customarily accepted. For
example, the English missionary William Carey, who spent years in the eastern part of
India, wrote achingly of the enormous physical challenges in missionary work, matched
only...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
...: everywhere in this
novel, the gothic is an expression of married family life.
A number of images and allusions in the letters between Mina and Lucy serves
to underscore the novel’s interweaving of its “western” marriage-plots with its
“eastern” story of Jonathan’s incarceration in Transylvania...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 134–137.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of nineteenth-century liberalism.
Few texts have had as varied a reception history as Scott’s Waverley Novels. A crucial
part of any educated person’s library and an influential model for nascent national litera-
tures from the Americas to Eastern Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 546–549.
Published: 01 November 2016
... material for a movie. Characterized by Verhoeven as a “frontier land-jobber-turned-Jacobin-ideologue” (138), he published two important books within a year. A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of America (1792) relocates the transatlantic utopia from the eastern middle states...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 428–431.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and endorsement-albeit guilty-of the notion that oppression
is Eastern and un-English, a foreign importation, corrected only by the massive house-
cleaning-literal and metaphoric-undertaken by the "little English girl." Such treatments
of the English novel (and there have been many excellent ones) have...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (3): 496–499.
Published: 01 November 2011
... by Charles Dickens, who visited Eastern State Penitentiary
in Philadelphia in the 1840s, and Herman Melville. In this dissonance, Smith identifies a
“carceral gothic,” a literary mode in which writers use descriptions of ghostliness to ques-
tion sentimental claims about bringing prisoners back...
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