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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... conditions of possibility, so to speak—provides the larger perspective in which it can be seen in dialectical relation to contemporary literature and culture. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 gimmick Istanbul Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence Readers...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 August 2022
... three novels use the techniques of speculative fiction to produce what Sianne Ngai characterizes as “the gimmick.” “Like the comedy of procedure that puts it so ostentatiously on display,” she avers, the gimmick “emerges explicitly as a phenomenon of industrial capitalism, not just of a rationalized...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
... : Verso , 1996 . Ngai Sianne . Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2020 . Puckett Kent . Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2016 . Raiford Wanda . “ Fantasy and Erasure...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 515–518.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... This archaeological approach is far from
a gimmick, despite the greater success of some chapters over others. (One does not get a
sense, for example, of the importance of “1970” for reading Ellison’s writing and revising
many critical accounts of his politics until the book nears its end.) The approach...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 180–201.
Published: 01 August 2001
... proceeds:
"This species of fiction is perhaps more imposing on the first perusal" but at
second glance it reveals its "vast inferiority" to "the genuine novel" (49).
Whereas the novel is based on "truth," the romance is just a narrative gimmick
for exciting curiosity, which it can...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
... , 1988 . Monk Leland . Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1993 . Moretti Franco . The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature . London : Verso , 2013 . Ngai Sianne . Theory of the Gimmick . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
... the conditions of their production but without deploying the older gimmicks of Cold War–era metafiction; their readings show us the intersection of book-historical attention to systems of cultural value (methodology) with novelistic objects crafted in a fresh realist idiom for the literary milieu after...
