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Arts of Homelessness: Roberto Bolaño or the Commodification of Exile
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 546–554.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Alberto Medina Exile is a recurrent subject in Roberto Bolaño's writings. Far from lamenting the separation from the motherland, simultaneous to that from a lost generation of idealist politics and avant-garde aesthetics, Bolaño turns exile into an ethical opportunity to reconsider history...
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Forever Twenty-One
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 325–329.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., of the much-debated dichotomy between
modernism and the ‘‘avant-garde Twice in the book, as a pendant to his well-exemplified
arguments about the novel, Esty conjures the specter of the radical avant-garde in order to
summarily dismiss the project of the avant-garde as a whole:
With their mixed...
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Make It New (Again)
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 479–482.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Emilio Sauri SESHAGIRI URMILA , Race and the Modernist Imagination ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2010 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $45.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Bürger Peter . Theory of the Avant-Garde . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P...
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Zero Degree Everything: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 August 2018
...-Yugoslavia, and they were also this kind of semiparodic assemblage of an avant-garde with recognizable avant-garde tropes like manifestos and flags and uniforms, and they had their official philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, and their official rock band, Laibach, and they came and declared a state in Berlin, so...
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Consciousness in the Balance
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2017
... or avant-garde art either (generally for the same reasons). Most of his arguments against modernism boiled down to this: while realism is capable of representing socioeconomic totality, modernism isn't. Modernist literature is too self-involved—too subjective and inward looking and formally experimental...
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The Textuality of Modern War
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 May 2000
... different aesthetic perspectives.
Over the course of her three initial chapters, for example, Norris illustrates debates among
realist, modernist, and avant-garde writers by comparing the representation of war in
trench poetry and in modernist poetry and by comparing Hemingway's spare modernist...
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It's a Mad, Mad World
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 November 2019
... avant-garde literary modernism and twentieth-century madness goes considerably beyond previous approaches to the topic. Although it is now commonplace to speak of how modernist texts represent the schizophrenia, psychosis, paranoia, and psychic dysfunction resulting from the modernization process...
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Vanity's Residue
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 166–175.
Published: 01 August 2018
... New Babylon; or as an assemblage of discrete yet co-reactive experiences and desires. It was this history of interventionist cartography and the close relation with the skull that both mapmaking and the avant-garde maintain (“Time and space,” Filippo Tommaso Marinetti tells us in the twentieth...
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First Person Sexual
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and social reputation sometimes
gets forgotten, or at least is not fleshed out (perhaps because Lucey feels he has suffi-
ciently written on the subject elsewhere). Lucey concentrates on an exchange between
Martin du Gard and Gide that highlights the relationship between sexual ideology...
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The Form of Identity
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 487–490.
Published: 01 November 2013
... as
studies of modernist and avant-garde poetry such as Josephine Nock-Hee Park’s Appari-
tions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008) and Timothy Yu’s Race and
the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (2009). Like these works,
Semblance of Identity...
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Letters and the Contemporary Novel: Materiality and Metaphor in Ian McEwan's The Children Act
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
... staging, then, can begin to explore the wrong at the heart of a fictional differend. It can also begin to suggest, in ways that legal rulings never could, that new idioms are both necessary and possible. 1 The case of Charlie Gard in 2017, for example, was widely reported in the United Kingdom...
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Not Reading for the Plot
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 500–504.
Published: 01 November 2011
... interesting metacritical, literary-historical
intervention. He shows us that the plotlessness we mark as avant-garde, modernist, late-
Victorian plotlessness and stasis—as well as its antagonistic relationship to modernity—is
in fact central to the “classic” Victorian novel. What changes...
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A History of Absences: The Problem of Reference in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 94–110.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of Zen. Similarly, Timothy Yu’s book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experi-
mental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965, traces how Language Poetry and Asian American
writing emerged as parallel poetics during the 1960s and 1970s. Yu examines the work of Allen
Ginsberg, Ron Silliman...
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Ticket to a Museum: Reading Orhan Pamuk in Our Times
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... by and contributing to the conditions of contemporary cultural production. It prompts questions such as: To what extent does The Museum of Innocence , alongside its eponymous museum, fit the description of the conceptual art that constitutes the avant-garde of our time? How does it enter the mainstream...
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Naming What Is Inside: Gertrude Stein’s Use of Names in Three Lives
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 August 2003
... of characters' names would thus appear to be a quixotic
project, based on an assumption about the symbolic significance of proper nouns
antithetical to Stein's avant-garde use of language and its special emphasis on
verbal action and stylistic performance.
Yet as I shall argue in this essay...
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Women and the Technologies of Modernity
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 356–357.
Published: 01 November 2004
... in a
perhaps freer way than in their better-known work (4). "[Mlodernist women's obsession
with 'marginal' visual texts like snapshots" and popular as well as avant-garde movies,
Hurnm suggests, "hints at a crisis of gender representation in their constant turn to modes of
representation outside...
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The Culture of Modernism
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 365–366.
Published: 01 November 2004
... was a fully paid-up msnber of the literary avant-garde,
and Ardis reads the rape scene in Tarr (refracted through the reviews of this novel by
Pound and Eliot) as a piece of writing which deploys an anti-humanist and anti-realist
stylistic brilliance in such a way as to teach its readers how to read...
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A New Deal for Thirties Literature
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 136–142.
Published: 01 May 2000
... solution (a sal-
ary) in the guise of working-class rhetoric (labor valued for its own sake) that also mt
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classic avant-garde criteria (hostility towards the artistic marketplace). As Szalay shows,
this state-sponsored ideology...
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Drone Form: Mediation at the End of Empire
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... to the anxious dreams recorded in the drawings of victims. 6 But any survey of drone form would need to move all the way up the hierarchy of cultural value, too, reaching to the self-consciously rarefied idioms of prestige fiction and gallery art: works that, like McCarthy's self-consciously avant-garde...
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The Emergence of the Global South Novel: Red Sorghum , Présence Africaine , and the Third Novelists' International
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... narrator rather than an expression of a crisis in the perceptions of reality. As such, it is no more than a technique. Mo belonged to a group of Chinese avant-gardes ( xianfeng pai ) who emerged in literary and cultural circles in China at the same time as the root seekers. In their elitist cultural...
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