... this emphasis on the social aspect of reading fiction, but I want you to keep it in mind because it provides a crucial background for everything I will say. Recently I started using the term sociocognitive complexity to describe patterns of embedment of mental states within mental states in fiction...

...: the contemporary itself. Neither proleptic nor periodizable, the contemporary may be most aptly described as a wait. The long wait of the contemporary detective novel shows us how the act of reading is both embedded in and reflective of the times that make up our present time. © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke...

...Susan S. Lanser Scholars have rightly argued that one underpinning of the novel as it “rises” in the eighteenth century is its investment in consolidating heteronormativity. Reading narrative form as a site of sexual content, however, makes the case for a sapphic undertext embedded primarily...

... network through fictionalized scenes of reading. The novel assigns the English text a privileged position in fostering global connections and renders its cultural other unrepresentable in order to maintain a coherent representational system over a heterolingual world. Mitchell's imagination of a textually...

... by Duke University Press 2022 verbal form multi‐plotting narrative counterpoint embedded reading fictive systems Life imitates art, quipped Oscar Wilde. But if such art is the new virtual reality (VR) sort—which virtualizes pictures as inhabitable space—then the witty inversion loses its...

... Economics between Revolution and Reform . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995 . Kelly , Kevin . Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1994 . Luhmann , Niklas . The Differentiation of Society . Trans. Stephen Holmes and Charles Larmore...

.... The ineluctable forward movement of time, the inescapability of the present in cosmological time cannot be reproduced by the quasi-present of reading. There is an outer layer of inescapable cosmological time in which the temporality of reading is inevitably embedded. While this is neces- sarily what we...

...” of the world. By drawing attention to the power relations embedded in and exercised through the orientalist and philological projects of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that unfolded in South Asia, Mufti demonstrates the ideologically distorted model of the world-shaping current world-literature models...

... of Language . Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986 . Beer , Gillian . Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction . London: Routledge, 1983 . Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative...

... text: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. By focusing on the actions of the Malay helmsmen and the strange presence of the yellow dog in the first half of the novel, and the embedded social contexts of Patusan in the latter half, Krishnan reads Conrad's novel against the grain of Marlow's narrative...

... or later makes a picture of its fulfillment” and turns the phrase toward a discussion of “kernel narrative.” Questions of boredom and the temporality of reading are then posed by way of Soap Opera Diges t , the weekly guide to events that the television viewer may have missed. Through a re-engagement...

... thought at the level of form. Guided by his “conviction that social norms are embedded in traditions of literary style and that literary style is embedded in the politics of national culture,” Walkowitz favors fiction that interrupts the familiar rhythms of nativist narrative with formal devices...

... of the in- cest theme. Chapter-length readings of Aphra Behn's hue-letter behueen a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-87), Delarivier Manley's New Aflantis (1709), Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722)' an anonymous mid-century narrative entitled Eleanora; or A Tragical but True Case of Incesf in Great-Britain (1751...

..., and everyday devices with embedded sensors now contain what have been called formulaic versions of human thought. In contact with these surfaces, we are becoming familiar with questions such as those posed by anthropologist Susanne Kiichler: "We have to ask how a thing can be 'thoughtlike,' or 'how...

... reminds us that texts often model how they would like the genre in which they are embedded to be read. Readers are obviously not obliged to comply with such models, but ignoring them overlooks important clues about a text's efforts to control its genre-bound horizon of epistemic possibility ( Frow, Genre...

...: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism demonstrates throughout its pages, there is a kind of Asian American popular common sense embedded here, constructed by the successes of Asian American studies: we must continually be reminded of these past exclusions and forms of exploitation...

... 2003 Protecting and Embedding the Eighteenth-Century Self PATRICIA MEYER SPACE, Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003), pp. 256, $36.00. WOLFRAM SCHMImEN, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002...

... of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, these Indochinese cooks were just a minor footnote. There could be a personal epic embedded inside that footnote, I thought. (“Interview”) Truong’s observation that “[t]here could be a personal epic embedded inside that footnote” can be read either...

... on anticipating and fulfilling the desires of others. One example: since Amazon records data on—and can thus pay royalties on the basis of—the number of pages Kindle users read rather than the number of times an author's text is downloaded, authors who want to be paid in full must find newly granular ways...

... such as “chick-lit,” young-adult literature, and the romance novel. In sum, the disaster unconscious is embedded in “liberatory politics seeking to redress the specific disaster in a particular literary text, while staging a broader allegorical claim about nation, state, and race” (6). Structured around four...