...Stefano Ercolino Abstract A narrative impulse and a scenic impulse: as Fredric Jameson persuasively argues in The Antinomies of Realism , the history of literary realism has been shaped by the dialectic between these two competing drives, each identified by a specific temporality. Yet realism's...

... the Americas Have a Common History? A Critique of the Bolton Theory . New York : Knopf , 1964 . Pérez Firmat Gustavo . Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? Durham : Duke UP , 1990 . After History: Toward a Common Literature of the Americas maria del pilar blanco, Ghost...

... to that of a scientist whose aim is to study “natural man, governed by physical and chemical laws, and modified by the influences of his surroundings” ( 23 ). The natural and social history of the Rougon-Macquarts spans the length of twenty novels, each an experiment designed to observe the social expression...

... to as history, or “how Victorians thought about agency” (2). This historical approach, however, ought not to be confused with historical epistemology, which is itself informed by the presumption that structures condition the range of action imaginable. Rather, Vanden Bossche's is a historical approach...

... with the philosophy of history. Lukács's critical project has been sustained in the United States by Fredric Jameson, whose return to the thesis of The Historical Novel in the closing essay of The Antinomies of Realism (2013) is at odds with his revisitation of the Romantic genealogy of the pre-Marxist Theory...

..., socialist bildungsromane sought to provide the traditional form of the bildungsroman with a genuinely internationalist horizon. The genre of the socialist bildungsroman encodes the checkered history of socialism, in particular the problematic of a revolutionary temporality as well as the fraught...

... Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, or Alex La Guma. These writers mastered the idiom of allegorical narratives and made the life of their characters the conduit of representations of the nation, so that by “imagin[ing] communities, invent[ing] traditions,” they simultaneously “wrote themselves into History...

...ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 1991 . Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History...

...RAJI VALLURY Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Works Cited Ahmad , Aijaz . “Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory.” Social Text 17 ( 1987 ): 3 –25. Abun-Nasr , Jamil M. A History of the Maghrib . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971 . Andrade...

...Christopher Douglas Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a kind of companion volume to Toni Morrison's Beloved, recollecting through tropes of memory the history of American slavery: as with Morrison's novel, these histories are to be productive of contemporary identities. Gilead in particular helps...

... : Verso , 1980 . 40 – 42 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press “This Will Kill That”: A Provocation on the Novel in Media History JONATHAN ARAC Thinking of the novel as an imaginative organ of, first, Western culture and now a world literature, I turn...

... experimentation with referentiality toward her own critique of how events get represented, arguing that The Book of Salt plays with Steinian aesthetics in order to offer a critique of the structures of power that grant the racialized subject visibility. Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh become subjects of history...

... universality of postwar consumer culture, reemerge and are exposed at each turn of Dini's analysis, so that her literary history of electrification and household appliances becomes a strong and informed critique of American modernity. Thanks to Dini's exhaustive archival research, including documents...

.... Gillespie and Moran. 95 –121. Dunne , Tom . “Haunted by History: Irish Romantic Writing, 1800–1850.” Ed. Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich. Romanticism in a National Context . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 . 68 –91. Eagleton , Terry . Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish...

...Jonathan Arac Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel locates the novel at a particular juncture within the history of Western spirit but not in relation to any specific social, political, or economic history. Mikhail Bakhtin, influenced by Lukács and also by Friedrich Schlegel's theorization...

... Arendt Matters . New Haven: Yale UP, 2006 . States of Emergency, States of Freedom: Woolf, History, and the Novel Stephen M. Barber I must cling to my “freedom”—that mysterious hand that was reached out to me about 4 years ago...

...). What the questions have in common is that they all point to processes that loom large in the history of the novel but not in its theory. Here I reflect on this discrepancy and suggest a few possible alternatives. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher...

... offering a more accurate social history of the novel. The essay traces histories of the novel throughout the nineteenth century, from the moment of the “institution of the novel” at its beginning to the definition of the genre as the cultural expression of a rising “middle class” of puritan merchants...

... 2009. Law, Parody, and the Politics of African American Literary History Gene Andrew Jarrett In early 2001, the Stephens Mitchell Trust (hereafter “the trust”) learned that Hough- ton Mifflin was planning to publish a parody of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel, Gone...