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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 313–317.
Published: 01 August 2019
... [ between the built and unbuilt world ], which entails precisely the kind of environmental ambivalence where invitation and threat coexist. If these animals and environments [ given in the passage ] are not real at one level of description—La Motte wasn't a living human being and there was no abbey quite...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 22–43.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to our environments and inspire reader engagement with environmental concerns. Powers's effort to move beyond anthropocentrism, which is motivated by positive intentions to impact reader interest in environmental issues, is stymied by the inevitability of the human perspectives and interests that attend...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 May 2012
... deployment of animality to imply humans' ethical regression, I argue that fiction by London imagines the ethical possibilities of assuming an animal-inspired approach to one's surrounding environment. Drawing on recent insights of materialist philosophy, I show that London takes up the canine figure in White...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 482–501.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of narrowly specialized, slow-to-adapt “genies.” Since genies are optimized for highly specific micro-environments, the same “species” of genie may form in any two individuals who share such a micro-environment, with this indifference to the boundaries of the person making it possible for a shared genie-type...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Laura Strout Abstract What insights into literary realism can be found by dwelling in the empty rooms and abandoned spaces of Bleak House , a novel more often read for its representation of overcrowded environments? Traveling between and imaginatively inhabiting empty houses of Charles Dickens's...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Field theory envisions money's value as arising from and shifting with the market or social environment from which it arises. This essay examines how the field theory of money can be linked with money's role in three contemporary examples of speculative fiction: Hari Kunzru's Gods Without Men , Tom...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that slides through the institutional machinery that administers literary production. It centers its investigation on the United States during a period in global cultural history when the literary field was slowly coming into existence. In this environment, a group of long short stories or short novels...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the relationship between texts and the world the novel represents. Sterne continually exposes the ontological instability of both texts and readers in a networked commercial environment; just as Yorick is affectively led astray by accidental encounters with people and things, readers are also exposed to narrative...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... consequences rather than strategic goals of collective action. But the idea that humans, intentionally or not, have altered global ecosystems to the point where they have in fact created a different planetary environment has also infiltrated recent environmental nonfiction. McKibben's Eaarth: Making a Life...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Melissa Hardie Across three women's films, the status of the literary novel in the midst of changing media environments is melodramatically plotted through the figure of “old acquaintance.” Vincent Sherman's 1943 Old Acquaintance pits the meager output of celebrated writer Katherine “Kit” Marlowe...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to make distinctions of taste in reading various environments and scenes. The essay interprets Victor Frankenstein's artistic and scientific endeavors as a form of history painting that cannot rid itself of the “debased” genre of still life, namely, rhyparography (the painting of waste and filth). Indeed...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of environmental change. . . . The oikeios names the relation through which humans act—and are acted upon by the whole of nature—in our environment-making. —Moore Outside Dorlcote Mill, “rich pastures” stretch “[f]ar away on each hand,” “patches of dark earth” are “made ready for the seed of broad-leaved...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the focus away from the material environment,” which, at the present moment, seems in much greater need of reparation than the temporal one (4). But it would be a mistake to entirely disentangle them. Clearly the ecological crisis that looms represents a shocking suspension of our temporal horizon...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the preservation of the status quo. Rather, the scenario serves as an end in its own right: a form in which those dedicated to identifying alternate configurations of the world might dwell in order to imagine the possibilities for substantive change to occur in the present. At the global scale of environmental...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and the moral pollutions of prostitution and opium dens associated with the same environs, thus reminding us of the extent to which the term itself remained in flux between its residual and emergent connotations (spiritual taint and environmental impurity) throughout the nineteenth century. Similar...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... narrative is constrained by the five-year-old's limited point of view. Setting cannot be dissevered from character; whoever Jack is turns out to be directly related to the “environmental determinism” through which his daily life is conducted (7). The classroom where the novel is discussed is just one stage...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 290–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
... epistemologies were related), and the contours of nineteenth-century modernity in general” (21). By relocating critical attention to the houses of the poor, Leckie is intervening both in accounts of the novel's relationship to built environments, which have more often taken up the myriad ways in which...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 18–44.
Published: 01 May 2015
... or the general atmosphere of the immediate environment” (30). Repeated experiences of being alone with the mother lead to the sophisticated form of the capacity to be alone, which for Winnicott is “nearly synonymous with emotional maturity” (31). Gradually, as Winnicott describes it, this “ego-supportive...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 490–494.
Published: 01 November 2020
... but also to what Lukács calls second nature—all the features of community that seem to define the human habitat, its traditions, rituals, social orders, and manners. Succumbing to the task of being autonomous beings, modern subjects sense the oppressive force of these cultural environments. Novels tell...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 409–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
... ( Masao 234–36 ). In the mid-1990s, Nobel Prize–winner Ōe Kenzaburo protested, “Murakami doesn't take an active attitude toward society, or even toward the immediate environment of daily life. He works by passively absorbing influences from various genres, as if he were listening to background music. He...