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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 391–410.
Published: 01 November 2001
... . New York: Routledge, 1999 . Wilson , Edmund . “The Ambiguity of Henry James.” Ed. Gerald Willen. A Casebook on Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw . New York: Crowell, 1960 . 115 –53. Homo-Formalism: Analogy
in The Sacred Fount
STACEY MARGOLIS...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 411–433.
Published: 01 November 2001
... . Seltzer , Mark . Henry James & The Art of Power . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984 . Tanner , Tony . Henry James and the Art of Nonfiction . Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995 . "Out of the Medium in Which Books
Breathe": The Contours of Formalism...
View articletitled, “Out of the Medium in Which Books Breathe”: The Contours of <span class="search-highlight">Formalism</span> and the Golden Bowl
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 350–353.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Samuel Otter THEO DAVIS, Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007), pp. 210, cloth, $87.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 A Different Formalism
theo davis, Formalism, Experience...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Julie Park Revisiting Richardson's Pamela as a site of “spatial formalism,” this essay maintains that the notion of the domestic interior as a setting conducive to psychological interiority requires further materialist analysis. It argues that the interiority of Pamela hinges less on characters...
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View articletitled, Detachable Pockets and Letter Folds: Spatial <span class="search-highlight">Formalism</span> and the Portable Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Christian Lewis Abstract In Miss Mackenzie , Anthony Trollope attempted to write a marriage plot without love or romance but admitted that he was unable to do so. This essay argues that Trollope's formal experiment developing the “anti-romantic” marriage plot did not end with Miss Mackenzie...
View articletitled, Anthony Trollope's <span class="search-highlight">Formal</span> Experiment: Repetition and the Anti-romantic Marriage Plot
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 307–311.
Published: 01 August 2017
... the ructions of history or politics but rather of detecting the elusive imprints of the latter in the different formal grooves and impasses of what used to be known as “textuality.” The second reversed the dialectic to similar ends, such that the apparently phenomenal or fuzzily experiential domains...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
... formalism Before it begins, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure distills its unforgettably searing critique of law into its three-word epigraph: “The Letter Killeth.” Saint Paul's dictum famously divides law between spirit and letter, universal and particular, the unrepresentable and the all too...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Nathan Wainstein Abstract Formalist novel criticism has a strange relationship to artistic failure. Although an array of twentieth-century theoretical frameworks have taught critics to find value and meaning in negative formal phenomena that may resemble writerly lapses (such as moments...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 176–196.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and the people as unable to see how to relinquish control of the streets back to individuals; and, finally, shows how in the novel's conclusion Dickens dramatizes two germane formal relations essential to this public transport revolution: its passengers' interchangeability, or substitutability, and the new...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that is seemingly destined to extinguish it. Consequently, both novels turn to a formal modeling in which individual and collective can supposedly blend without either suffering reduction—a maneuver also characteristic of many theoretical discussions of planetarity. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora (2015), in contrast...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
... triumphing. To explain her position, the article turns to Jacques Rancière's unresolvable antagonism between “politics” and “the police,” which has an aesthetic analogue in the clash between the formally anarchic modern novel and premodern hierarchies of genre. Wharton unearths 1870s New York like...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and revolutionary politics. Focusing on a hydroelectric facility yet to be constructed, A Wreath for Udomo reaches for the formal capacities of the novel to stage how the process of formal enclosure specific to and resulting from economic planning results in an analytic enclosure that slowly undoes the possibility...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... written in the first place, this article tracks how this same anticlimactic and nonrepresentational narrative mode is repeated throughout the novel. It suggests that these conspicuous absences serve as formal literary interventions that point toward the impossibility of thinking, sensing, and thereby...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 424–442.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Alissa G. Karl What does it mean for a novel, or a nation, to “add up”? Where a number of prominent critics have outlined the ways in which the novel amounts to a persuasive representation of the nation, this essay considers another prominent discourse of accounting—economics—to evaluate the formal...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
... popularity of this book, like that of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, has produced critical accounts that tend to shy away from formal, textual analyses in the interests of developing more culturally oriented readings. My essay attends both to the cultural contexts that inform the novel and to its...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
... these changes in racial collectivism as opportunities to recast the political and formal protocols of black fiction. More specifically, these writers draw on the class divisions that intellectuals have viewed primarily through the lens of crisis as a means to challenge existing models of racial solidarity...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of consciousness, thereby offering a full, materialist account of the mind. This article argues that an emergent subgenre of contemporary fiction has both formally integrated and critically assessed these discourses of the mind. The “neuronovels” of Ian McEwan, David Lodge, and others have specifically addressed...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 276–300.
Published: 01 August 2012
... 1886 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (1995, trans. 1998), and Jonathan Franzen's 2001 The Corrections —the article shows that works from the residual or “late” phases of two successive hegemonic cycles, the British and the American, reveal formal similarities...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 383–402.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the Jew into a conventional marriage plot reflects a problem in Trollope's construction of authorship, a problem that inheres in how literary commercialism and literary professionalism might represent mutually exclusive value postulates. Max Weber's distinction between formal rationality and substantive...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Timothy Wientzen Exhibiting formal characteristics of works published decades later, Knut Hamsun's Hunger (1890) has long occupied a central position in genealogies of modernism. Its status in the modernist canon, however, has often come at the cost of disregarding the cultural and economic...
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