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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., which ask their readers to comprehend complex, graph-like systems of relations. Methods ultimately indebted to Euler's groundbreaking essay have recently achieved a limited vogue in literary studies following Franco Moretti's “Network Theory, Plot Analysis” (2011). In that pamphlet's most famous set...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Rachel Ablow JAFFE AUDREY , The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph ( Ohio State UP , 2010 ), pp. 138 , cloth, $59.95 , paper, $24.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Abstracted...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
... was arguably instigated by the publication of Charles
Lyell’s Principles of Geology and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Both sensation
fiction and medical graphing technology coincide with a climax of uniformitarian
and evolutionary narrative in the greater culture. Lyell’s theory accounted for geo...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of the movement scale, and the ill person gets slotted below the healthy one. In another of his graphs, a prosthetic hand occupies the point of negative affinity. As Mori's theory is in wide circulation and impacts the development of humanoid technologies and social robots, it is important to expose the biases...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 460–466.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Village . 5 vols. London: Whittaker, 1824-32 . Moretti , Franco . Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory . London: Verso, 2005 . Ray , John . The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Work of Creation . 1691. Glasgow: William Duncant, 1750 . Topham , Jonathan...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
... argued is the novel's tendency to “disintegrate into disparate, heterogeneous parts” ( Theory of the Novel ), this essay explores the mechanisms by which both photography and the novel stage their own totality. In doing so, I follow theorists of the novel such as Michael McKeon and Terry Eagleton as well...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 393–399.
Published: 01 November 2009
... by the theories of Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida ; many innovative contemporary photographers, however, have preferred an earlier Barthean model in which spectators are set loose to find their own interpretations of an image, effectively becoming writers of fictions themselves. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 267–269.
Published: 01 August 2003
... to "the X-Files craze, survivalism, the new millennialism, the Unabomber, comet
cults, the fascination with the alien abject, [and] the proliferation of conspiracy theories,"
O'Donnell casually notes that "by the time the reader views this list, several new incarna-
tions will have appeared" (viii...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
... bears out in its plot an indictment of law's inherent abjections and an interrogation of the value of life that seem to precociously articulate the consensus of today's hegemonic biopolitical theory: that human institutions tend inexorably to subjugate humanity itself. Yet the form of the novel develops...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 490–496.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Victorian.” Representations 90 (2005): 61–74.
Jaffe, Audrey. The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market
Graph. Columbus: Ohio State UP, forthcoming.
Littau, Karin. Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania. Cambridge: Polity, 2006.
Stewart...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 263–267.
Published: 01 August 2024
... with a broader Victorian awareness of the difficulty of discerning what the voters want—as we see in Carroll's exploration of the complexity of electoral choice in mathematical and social theory. Chapter 3 pairs Carroll, a conservative obsessed with electoral procedures, with Morris, a socialist aesthete who...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 May 2016
...—Underwood focuses on the development of historical thinking within novels, poems, educational treatises, visualizations, and critical theory from the eighteenth century through the present. As such, Why Literary Periods Mattered makes an important and timely contribution to discussions about the fate...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
... into two parts, African American women writers and
Caribbean women writers. Within each, Rody presents a series of readings on canonical
and non-canonical authors with entire chapters devoted to some writers, sections, para-
graphs and brief plot summations for others. These include Alice Walker...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 276–300.
Published: 01 August 2012
... David . “Sales Data Inquiry.” Message to the author . 3 Nov. 2009 . E-mail . Jameson Fredric . Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1971 . ———. “Periodizing the '60s.” The Ideologies of Theory . Minneapolis...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 145–148.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
integral aspects of storytelling, strategies which tap into key
it is perhaps the least studied cognitive parameters familia
HILAPY P. DANWENBERG aspect of narrative. Using plot to the reader from real-life
theory to chart the development experience...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in The Resistance to Theory and Said
in Humanism and Democratic Criticism associated philology with an empirical rigor and
textual grounding that literary analysis alone could not match. Their notions of philol-
ogy, however differently conceived (de Man’s in terms of scientific practice and Said’s in
terms...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 403–421.
Published: 01 November 2014
...: The Uses of Uncertainty . 1974 . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2006 . Donaldson Scott . “The Seduction of Theron Ware.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 29 . 4 ( 1975 ): 441 – 52 . Eliot T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism . Ed...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in this chapter. First, she uses graphs and maps to visualize the transnational social and object network that led to the acquisition of the books in Wharton's library. Surprisingly, 92 percent came not through inheritance but “through connections and associations that she forged for herself en route to becoming...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 149–153.
Published: 01 May 2007
... but perspicacious Graphs, Ilfaps, Trees: Abstract Models for a
Literary History)-much of what I say in what follows may look like nitpicking. So, let me
begin with a disclaimer: undoubtedly, Moretti is one of the most significant critical figures
of the end of the last century and one of the major forces both...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of perception strained by systematized world history, “a desire called cognitive mapping” (3). As Jameson gauges this desire and graphs what he identifies as “the geopolitical aesthetic,” he arrives at a formal contrast between works that concretize a “cartography of the absolute” (in metonyms of totality...
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