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...Naomi Mandel This essay examines the role of fact and the injunction of fidelity to it in fiction about violent historical events. Taking as its starting point Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel, Everything Is Illuminated (set in the wake of the Holocaust), and his 2005 novel, Extremely Loud...

... for the same scarce conversational space. The stark battle lines that, during the heyday of the Edinburgh literary scene, characterized journal divisions, political ones, even questions of linguistic fidelity to the Scots dialect may well have been what taught Hogg to conceptualize fiction as a site where...

...Dianne F. Sadoff Recent visual-culture scholars have sought to overturn the notion that a film adaptation should be “faithful” to its literary source. Yet fidelity aesthetics is a capacious concept that may not be theorized apart from cultural uses, historical situations, film production...

... Sartre's unfinished tetralogy The Roads to Freedom (1945–49) to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (1962) and Peter Weiss's trilogy The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–81). Building on Alain Badiou's understanding of the militant subject's “fidelity” to the revolution, the article describes the dialectical...

... is channeled into “­middle-class anxiety.” Thus what we might call the ekphrastic mode in DeLillo’s and McEwan’s late works is a morbid one, limited to expressing “the guilty con- science of the middle class rather than the desire for change.” Naomi Mandel’s essay, “Fact, Fiction, Fidelity...

... inherent in contemporary culture’s paradoxical (in)fidelity to modernism. The other side of this paradox is taken up by David James through a discussion of Philip Roth and Milan Kundera—two writers who learn from modernism without taking its extravagant methods too seriously or, alternatively...

... . Patwardhan , Daya . A Star of India, Flora Annie Steel: Her Works and Times . Bombay: A.V. Griha Prakashan, 1963 . Said , Edward W . Orientalism . New York: Vintage, 1979 . Steel , Flora Annie . The Garden of Fidelity . London: Macmillan, 1930 . ———. The Potter's Thumb . New...

..., or for his fidelity to the original, on the other. This question was complicated by international copyright laws as to who owned the text. Translators tended to be treated differently from authors, who often lost ownership to stationers. McMurran’s TENNENHOUSE | THE NOVEL’S INTERNATIONAL NATIONALISM...

... in the room. Fidel Castro introduced the phrase “special period in time of peace” in 1990 to frame the dire years—continuing until at least 1996—after the withdrawal of USSR economic activities from the island ( Castro ; my translation). Indicative of the unique challenges this withdrawal posed to the regime...

... in this light, Spie- gelman’s “simultaneous insistence on fidelity to the past and a denial of the possibility of such fidelity” mirrors the investments and anxieties of The Real (147). Maus’s dual project of historical retrieval (an oral history of a survivor) and formal experiment (a graphic novel...

... photography characterized not by fidelity to the real but by abstraction and typicality, and realism characterized not by verisimilitude and the accurate portrayal of the everyday world but by formal strategies designed to unify and generalize the novel’s representations. Moreover, the relation Novak...

...). The reading here seemed to me more subjective: I would have liked to see “the challenge of keeping fidelity toward both the present moment and permanence” (84) more clearly distinguished from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “pregnant moment,” and I was unsure if the detachment was only semi when Alma-Tadema...

... strongest case of realism as a fidelity not to the innocence but to the difficul- ties of mimesis. “Only in the state of strife, of duality, of hyperbolically saying more than we mean, though not all that we mean, do we remain human. What are the other possi- bilities?” (103). Eliot’s answer is clear...

... his postal route—despite his protestations of fidelity to substantive missives—and into a linguistic love affair with a more elusive type of letter. Trollope’s preferred type of letters and shoes may be literal, tangible, and utilitarian, but his shoe fetish is also a metaphor fetish. Fetishism...

... and hence undertheorized tension between “Eastern European” and “Polish.” The larger frame of Form and Instability sets widely the shifting borders of Eastern Europe. The introduction pledges a doubled fidelity to the geographic imaginary and literary forms; and the authors cited in the introduction...

... dutiful, less passionate condition of marriage (in Julie's relation to Wolmar) can provide greater stability than the volatile condition of love (in her attachment to St. Preux). But by his account, even a married woman eventually abandons the fidelities of marriage (as in the case of Sophie...

... on the brow or lack of spark in the eye (40). While readers have come to naturally associate narrative length with fidelity to the everyday, temporal realism sustains an ideological commitment to linear development that exceeds realist fiction entirely. Even a work of fantasy like Wells's The Time Machine...

... consistently recognize a particular set of characters as his ava- tars. The basis for his identity might seem to lie in his name, and as such, in ma- nipulative deception and the exploitation of trust. This definition, however, is problematic. Nearly everyone on board the Fidele manipulates trust...

..., secularism thus in and of itself offers an antidote to the paradoxes innate to any constitution of the People. Above all, the proponents of secularism defend its crucial work in cleansing political process of the idiosyncratic, subjective fidelities that quintessentially are seen to arise in religious...

... not reward the scrutiny they receive. In their claustrophobic focus and frustrating fidelity to a single subject who never quite succeeds in mattering, such texts show an allergy to the individualism for which the form has long been known. What is most provocative and illuminating in this book is its...