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Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the gay novel. Deploying novel theory and genre theory, this article argues that Dancer indicates how gayness transforms the novel and how the novel enables the lived experience of gay identity. Dancer , and the gay novel generally, complicate novel theory's assumption that the genre always privileges...
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Reading for the Words
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 May 2012
... this method as a “three-way convergence,” bringing together
genre theory and narratology with sentence-level linguistic analysis (3). What could the
theory of the novel show us, he asks, if it considered the prose medium of fiction up close
rather than (as it sometimes does) from 30,000 feet...
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Reassembling the Novel: Kinlessness and the Novel of the Haitian Revolution
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 167–185.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon This article turns to the space of the colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to offer an alternative theory of the novel—one that defines colonial geographies as constitutive of the novel as a genre rather than as marginal and inessential. In looking...
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Transnationalism and the Novel: A Call for Periodization
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 November 2009
... that sets it apart from a premodern praxis of transmission—a historical juncture that has been occluded by novel theory. The novel was not always transnational, but its emergence as a modern genre depended on it. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined...
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History and the Novel after Lukács
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Ian Duncan The publication of English translations of Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1971) and The Historical Novel (1962) inaugurated a major development in North American criticism of the past half century: the turn to Continental theory for an identification of the novel...
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The Genre that Ate the Canon
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 151–155.
Published: 01 May 2018
... theory of genre” and a fresh account of “recent calls for renewed attention to genre” (7). Rosen claims, convincingly, that genre study is the key to understanding literary-historical change and literature's ability to articulate social or historical formations (21). Genre of course travels equally well...
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Reading the Book of the World: Epic Representation in the Age of Our Geophysical Agency
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Tobias Boes Literary theory for the past century has been dominated by the assumption that the novel is a genre that responds to the feeling of “transcendental homelessness” that is both described and partially caused by transcendental philosophy. Central to this assumption is the idea that we can...
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The Early Novel and Catastrophe
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 November 2009
... theory of novelistic discourse—because catastrophe is, in what follows, a figure of time, a figure of eventfulness that always and ineluctably worries while it structures the broader protocols of meaning. In particular, my essay returns to Daniel Defoe and his strange preoccupation with disastrous events...
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Conrad, Lawrence, and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 389–409.
Published: 01 November 2023
... argues, rework the industrial‐novel genre as a way to figure a crisis of British culture—and of the novel as a form. In the era of British imperial decline, the apparent massification and globalization of modern Western culture, and revolutionary changes in gender relations and family life, the synoptic...
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The Color of His Hair: Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraits of the Historical Jesus
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... This article focuses on literary portraiture in the Jesus novel, a genre of historical fiction that emerged independently in different national literatures from the 1830s onward alongside several parallel developments, including the secularization of biblical scholarship, the rediscovery of early Christian...
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Sociocognitive Complexity
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Lisa Zunshine My essay emphasizes the social aspect of our engagement with fictional narratives by drawing on cognitive scientists' research into “theory of mind,” also known as “mind reading”: our evolved adaptation for explaining people's behavior in terms of their mental states, such as thoughts...
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The Meaning of Settler Realism: (De)Mystifying Frontiers in the Postcolonial Historical Novel
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 461–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of realism in The Historical Novel builds on the aesthetic first proposed in The Theory of the Novel (1920), which presents the genre as a formal compensation for the consciousness of totality lost as the world becomes more complex, globalized, and fragmented—processes that undoubtedly include...
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Political Melodrama Meets Domestic Fiction: The Politics of Genre in North and South
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2019
... innovation thus has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse rather than gesture uncertainly toward ideological values through form alone. Recent genre theory has raised the stakes for its practitioners in precisely these terms. Rejecting 1970s dismissals of genre as a mystified...
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Genre Trouble
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 313–316.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and of the relay
between artistic creativity and the marketplace. Part literary history, part theory (even soci-
ology) of reading, The Art of Scandal lays bear the rich cultural contexts of modernist fiction,
setting these contexts within a wider examination of genre theory—and more specifically, a
theory...
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Formal Differences
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 307–311.
Published: 01 August 2017
... something that most aspirant scholars come to specialize in, at least if gainful employment in a literature department remains for them a going concern. Rather, theory has been diffused, retrospectively slotted into the old period categories and genres, and defused, largely stripped of its reflexive punch...
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“Much Study Is a Weariness of the Flesh”
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 311–315.
Published: 01 August 2014
...). This is at once the volume’s
most suggestive and underdeveloped claim, for the chapters that follow rarely address
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themselves to genre theory or the specificity of the novel form within the entanglements...
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Novels and Systems
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 202–215.
Published: 01 August 2001
...).
For a discussion of this aspect of genre theory, see Siskin, Hzstoricify 9-14.
See Siskin, "The Ends of Enlightenment."
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into master SYSTEMS. Thus, of the seven parts of Adam Smith's The Theoy of the
Moral Sentiments ("theory," according to Johnson, being a "system...
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What Happened to the Postcolonial Novel: The Urban Longing for Form
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-okorafors-lagoon/ >. Fanon Frantz . The Wretched of the Earth . New York : Grove , 1963 . Frow John . “ ‘Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need’: Genre Theory Today .” PMLA 122 . 5 ( 2007 ): 1626 – 34 . Gottmann Jean . Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern...
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Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
... . Tortonese Paolo . L’œil de Platon et le regard romantique . Paris : Kimé , 2006 . Tynianov Yuri . “ The Literary Fact .” Modern Genre Theory . Trans. Shukman Ann . Ed. and intro. Duff David . Harlow : Longman , 2000 . 29 – 49 . Tynianov Yuri . “ On Literary...
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Romancing the Anthropocene: H. G. Wells and the Genre of the Future
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... theory continues to supply compelling models for engaging with deep time because of its focus on relational distributions within and among texts. This analytic purchase applies both to the objects and to the methods of literary inquiry. Wai Chee Dimock , for example, has recently noted that genres, far...
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