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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Daylanne K. English In this essay I offer a temporal-philosophical and literary-political reading of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins detective novel series. African American literature has conventionally been understood as following its own timeline; however, ascribing a distinct temporality to black...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of Hardy's status as a “pastoral” author. “Pastoral” is a major concept in contemporary theory because of Michel Foucault's arguments about the emergence of this form of power as one of the basic elements of Western modernity, but it can be easy to forget how directly Foucault links pastoral power to its...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 444–465.
Published: 01 November 2011
... protagonist quite literally practices a form of personal self-rule—one that marks out his difference from those around him—while also denying the reader easy access to his particular version of events. However, in light of the Ojibwe author's advocacy of close reading and New Critical approaches to Native...
Journal Article
Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 211–230.
Published: 01 November 2002
... is further explored in Devil in a Blue Dress.
Devil in a Blue Dress and the problematic of class aspiration
Devil is a detective story in the tradition of both Chester Himes and Raymond
Chandler. Set in Los Angeles immediately after World War 11, Devil's protago-
nist, Ezekiel "Easy...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., whatever this moment was about happened and we all lived happily ever after? I said nobody's gonna get away with that; they're not gonna tell me it was that easy . . . Like, it was not easy being a black girl in 1940. . . . Before you erase this, wait ” (qtd. in Thorsson 144). According to Thorsson...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 474–476.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and experiential. Pleasure imposes the sensual upon us, even in its constituent phonetic parts; she writes: “I hear a plosive that relaxes into a sinuous buzz followed by a purr” (7). Rather than going for easy fun, Frost argues, modernist writers grab hold of less obvious pleasures—without altogether eschewing...
Journal Article
Novel (2002) 36 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 May 2002
... not sure
that this positioning of Stoker as a sort of Wami Bhabha amnt la lettre always convinces,
depending as it does on the suppression of a good deal of Stoker's less "undecideable"
material (it would not be so easy, say, to read The Lair of the White Worm as a staging of
misogyny rather than...
Journal Article
Novel (2019) 52 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and which texts we read and teach. They provide the imprimatur through which the Asian American studies department provides value to the university. Part of the brilliance, challenge, and riskiness of Tang's book is that it rips these bandages off: no longer can we rest in easy assumptions...
Journal Article
Novel (2021) 54 (2): 227–247.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in preparation for writing the novel, critics claim, resulted in a text that is overladen with scholarly detail, preventing the experience of reading it from being the easy, colloquial, and above all comfortable one a novel (perhaps especially a Victorian novel, like a familiar saying) should be. Indeed...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., that doesn't mean that it wasn't Gelb's view as much as it was Pease's. Gelb graduated from Tufts as an undergraduate in 1959 and from Harvard with a PhD in 1964, so it's easy to think that Gelb's Melville would be the third-hand Melville of a second-hand Matthiessen, Feidelson, or Chase; it's easy, in other...
FIGURES
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 378–381.
Published: 01 November 2008
... narrative as an emblem of global issues but
without the easy moralizing distinction between one group of the poor and another. This
holistic outlook itself meets its limit, as Claybaugh emphasizes, in the wake of his
troubled engagement with the issue of slavery in America, an experience which...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... order into which they are introduced rather than for
their disruptive or uncanny properties. Handheld, portable, user friendly, these media are
all ordinary and extraordinary, binding and estranging, in equal measure. If it were oth-
erwise, they would not be so narrative ready, so easy...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (2): 302–305.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., offering readers an easy way to
identify with individual Germans. Those fictional Germans, unsurprisingly enough, prove
to be just like us—a maneuver Stewart identifies as a way of sidestepping uglier issues of
Britain’s own war guilt (for “just like us” really means “good like us”) as well...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 41 (1): 154–157.
Published: 01 May 2007
... is not so easy to determine,
particularly when it comes to shared feelings.
Stranger still, as Festa notes, "the circulation of print commodities allows for a senti-
ment to be broken off and sold separately" (20). Festa credits sentimental fiction with
"both purveying pleasure in the guise...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (3): 523–526.
Published: 01 November 2010
... thirty-eight bestselling novels devoted to
the protagonist’s ability to outfight and outwit diverse thugs and crooks, is legendary for
his appreciation of fine dining and his skill in the kitchen. Easy Rawlins, the protagonist of
Walter Mosley’s celebrated adaptation of the hard-boiled mystery...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 August 2011
... differ, she argues, is in the purpose of the representation. Howells does
not seek to exploit the account of divorce for easy thrills but to help the discerning reader
attain mastery over the distortions of mass culture that would equate divorce with enter-
tainment. Juxtaposing Howells’s The Rise...
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (2): 202–220.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., especially perverse and disturbing.
It is easy for literary critics (and non-critics who care about literature) to side
with Banville. Henry’s “hardly literary” view of literature is disheartening, in that
it reminds us of the many people out there who think and read like him. More-
over...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (3): 380–386.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Godwin that such a thing is far from easy, or even possible.
Caleb Williams appeared in May 1794, after the first but before the second edition
of Political Justice, which was published in 1796. Between the two editions, Godwin
seems to have changed his mind somewhat about the possibility...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 452–464.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... To be sure, social media intensify the everyday experience of identity as a semiotic construction, an effect of diverse message sending that cannot be easily controlled by my authority. At some level, it is easy to understand Isabel and Cyrus to be women struggling in different eras and places to control how...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 August 2009
... going on there and was going on now and would go on through all the years
ahead was a species of war carried on in the silence of long ages, a struggle in which
188 novel | summer 2009
only the keen, uncanny eyes and ears of lunatic seers could detect the deceiv-
ing, easy...
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