... claims for the causality of heredity on the one hand and the division of labor on the other. Jude ultimately demonstrates that literature is, in essence, superfluous—and that “the count of the uncounted,” which Rancière recognizes as the stake of politics, is also the stake of fiction...

... the dark climax of that modernity, with democracy still very much alive; the 1936 Essence of the National Polity , a book-length propaganda essay produced by a committee of literary scholars and political hacks in the linguistic vacuum of fascist Japan; and Oe Kenzaburo's 1964 A Personal Matter...

... with other world systems become the sites of dramatic action and ethical transformation. In essence, Murakami presents us not with single verisimilar realities but with what I call fractal realism, recursively constituted fields of representation wherein characters and readers alike must continually adapt...

... of antiquity, meaning is not in dispute for author, character, or reader because the external world and the epic subject, the hero, are organically related—individual life and essence coincide, so that meaning is ‘‘ever-present ‘‘ready-made’’ (32). In contrast, the novel, along with other forms of modern...

... as inhering in us, to think of authentic feeling as welling up inside before being manifested in the body. Poststructuralists have of course questioned this relationship, dismantling the opposition between essence and expression, between "real- ity" and "artifice"; they're likely to see gender...

... is not an essence, as antiessentialists would have it, it makes no sense to speak about playing the blues, passing, or any other cultural practice as having a racial dimension. While this quick description flattens out Michaels’s argument— its infuriating brilliance, its controversial binaries, its deceptively...

... the mystic into a sphere where all duration and all passing of time have ceased and from wlziclz fie must fall back into the world of time only because of his creaturely, organic limitations, so any close and visible connection with the essence creates a cosmos which is a priori exempt from...

... image, I think, for conveying what Boxall believes is the structural essence of the novel. According to Boxall, the novel has from the beginning always functioned according to a kind of dialectical movement: on the one hand, generating an intimate sense of voice (presence, the self, a clear mirror...

... to McCrea patois offers (the fantasy of) an escape from the passage of time, queerness is by analogy entangled in this atavistic dreamworld as well. In thus positing a connection between the redemptive plot in Proust—the novel's search for “timeless essences and truths”—and same-sex sexuality, this chapter...

..., sociology, and theology, this is in- tentional. His stated focus is to trace a shuggle in Victorian social thought and fiction be- tween "incarnational" and "antonernent" theology: "that Victorian social life, however disenchanted it may seem, must contain some hidden, sacred, and lively essence...

... and literature, 52 NOVEL SPRING 2014 Herder regarded the essence of literature as national because it embodies the soul, the genius, and the cultural heritage of a particular people. Literature defines the national identity of a people because each epoch and nation ‘‘possesses its own special...

... gap between subject and object turns out to be, in its essence, a crossing of that very gap, even while the critical apparatus that this discovery directs against the problem of representation remains valid for that limited case. To put it another way: an aim that seems more radical than...

... of philosophy and criticism, “accident” has held diverse definitions, from Aristotle's Metaphysics , in which it is set against “essence” to denote those qualities peripheral to any object or being, to modern understandings of the word as chance occurrence or unexpected event (see Metaphysics 1029a–1049a...

... . Theory of Religion . Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Zone Books, 1992 . Baudelaire , Charles . “Of the Essence of Laughter, and Generally of the Comic in the Plastic Arts.” Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature . Trans. P.E. Charvet London: Penguin, 1972 . Bergson , Henri...

... saw the rapid change that agitated every attempt to fix the essence of family. Chase and Levenson show how and why the private became the public, intimacy nude a spectacle of itself, and individual family life became a dramatic story and locus of contra- dictions and impetus for change...

... are constituted more by presuppositions than empirical fact, no core sense of southern essence is left standing, and the field is left open and free for personal appropriation” ( 771 ). John Henry Days exemplifies for Ramsey a “postmodern” take on narratives of the US South (where the South's history ceases...

... of being. Yet on the other hand persists the universal, which would seem to contradict such permanent contingency. The universal typically refers to something relatively fixed for all time and in all places, such as an essence that remains or a transcendental. The irony is clear: the plastic...

... through the story. He has a jaundiced view of O’Connor’s oeuvre. Her stories “seem pre-packaged for close reading in the classroom: they are, in essence, a systematic production of that institutional- ized space, and of its virtual supplement, the New Critical textbook” (144). He is also hard...

... that Hardy’s novel shows us that ‘‘the idea of the law is enough to reshape subjects’’ (102). In a similar vein, the authors themselves, particularly Hardy and Grand, are themselves held up as effective theorists as well as instruments of the new mode of power, in essence actualizing through fiction the very...

... readers (like me) will be suspicious of the idea that the novel divides families according to racial essences, especially in light of George Harris's ambiguous status as a mulatto, and, perhaps more importantly, the affective bond- ing that takes place between Eva and Uncle Tom himself. Later...