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Face, Figure, Physiognomics: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Moving Image
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 353–376.
Published: 01 November 2000
... of Revolution: Images of Romanticism . Eds. Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest. New York: Routledge, 1993 . 26 –38. Brilliant , Richard . Portraiture . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991 . Cooter , Roger . The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent...
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Image and Narrative in the Post-9/11 Novel
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 May 2015
... 11 .” Vanity Fair Nov. 2001 : 48 – 49 . Kowal Ewa , The “Image-Event” in the Early Post-9/11 Novel: Literary Representations of Terror after September 11, 2001 ( Krakow : Jagiellonian UP , 2012 ) , pp. 151, paper, $40.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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Benedict Anderson's “simple novel-plot” as network diagram. Image by the au...
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Figure 3. Benedict Anderson's “simple novel-plot” as network diagram. Image by the author.
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![Figure 1. From René Descartes, Discours cinquiesme [Fifth Discourse]: Des images qui se foment sur le fond de l'oeil (Paris: Le Gras, 1658), 36, 39, 42, 45. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.](https://dup.silverchair-cdn.com/dup/Content_public/Journal/novel/48/3/10.1215_00295132-3150365/2/s_nov3150365figure1.jpeg?Expires=2147483647&Signature=GJJ7ZeKfiBy~YxDQYkGzg4cyFhjlCcHwfnnVfpEVgUZ0Uz26sA2FM2AH27DFUtrjy4khPlZfaawGgcPFb1jMpAWz5s0xuVSTQuJunR9tGOI1GZP~W1GDAl4Mo3chdVTSXgl24C-5JeWQR40thFx2yvVYUopHKCencvIcg9~DdTB7hA9eYMkU5acUaMETo2mtsF0P4Ol~Nn810rY9bd7sJevy9se4qtOq4PC-rEGWBt-ptTKGHZhhHZ2BzwIAZgjBShHwsFg2plW24kd9y0aVOF6VeyeVpklbCTNZjFnhgnF693PptM~Nyi03XG-Xpz8lXVtWvKy0wK4lbJdJnoRCMA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 1. From René Descartes, Discours cinquiesme [ Fifth Discourse ] : Des images qui se foment sur le fond de l'oeil (Paris: Le Gras, 1658), 36, 39, 42, 45. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
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Impossible Closure: Realism and Durational Aesthetics in Susan Meiselas's Nicaragua
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
... experience is latent in the still image, or at least in some still photographs. This temporal quality, I argue, is productively imagined by relating still photography to what literary scholars think of as narrative. In this, I am guided by two questions: First, simply, in what respects might still...
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Arrow of God and the World on Paper
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 467–473.
Published: 01 November 2009
... juxtaposes a mother's oral storytelling with a son reading the first page in his Igbo primer, the first book ever to enter the family compound. The novel narrates the coming of literacy to Igboland by focusing on three quite different images: the python in a box as an image for the book...
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Visual Storytelling: Cinematic Ekphrasis in the Latin American Novel of Globalization
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...
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A Picture of Europe: Possession Trance in Heart of Darkness
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
... dossier by considering Conrad's images of frenzy as a representation of what religious anthropologists now call “possession trance.” This essay argues that Conrad's artistic insights into possession trance cannot simply be dismissed as a distorting image of Africa but emerge out of a carefully crafted...
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“Lusting after Relevance”: The Allegorical Import of the African American Novel
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... struggles for freedom that are always relevant for their present‐day Black readership, irrespective of the historical contexts in which the novels themselves are set. Finally, the essay notes that the 1988 trade paperback edition of Mumbo Jumbo substitutes different images for some of the ones that were...
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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
... iconography, and western archeological advances into Palestine. The principal authors under consideration—Franz Delitzsch, Lew Wallace, and Ferdinando Petruccelli—each exploited a potent combination of ancient Christ images and modern race theory to construct detailed literary portraits of the historical...
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Plastic Reading
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 10–12.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., but also holds sway in philosophy and literature. The concept of the plastic—which she defines, using the image of plastic explosive, as the capacity to give form and the capacity to take form—refers to mutability, change, exchange, morphing, metamorphosis, and transformation. Plastic reading...
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Photographic Fictions
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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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Narratives of Survival
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 410–416.
Published: 01 November 2009
... for “higher” pursuits—a transparent means to other ends. But the sway the concept of “progress” exerts over images of forward movement, specifically the movement of stories that shape cultural notions of what makes a life worthwhile, is such that these narratives are seldom read on their own terms. Conversely...
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Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic Novel
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and kinship? Although Du Bois's narrative repeats an image of black kinlessness, it creates a catachrestic novel form through which to uncover the illogical historical logic of kinlessness. Only a catachrestic narrative space like Du Bois's fourth dimension can make kinlessness intelligible as a fully human...
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Marketing Jane Austen at the Megaplex
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 83–92.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and sustains the millennial Jane Austen mania. Adapting Austen's narratives more freely than did the 1990s versions, these films hope to capture the same crossover, multigenerational, mixed-sex audience yet also seek to market Austen for a new mass cohort of teenaged girls. Updating the stars' images...
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There's Something about Hyde
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 504–510.
Published: 01 November 2009
... confronted with its own uncanny mirror image and the self confronted with a mechanically iterable verbal signifier. Thus the essay begins with the premise that the inhuman is constituted through a subjection to—as Jacques Lacan might say—the itinerary of the signifier. But since this is a fate that could...
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Do Novels Think Electric Thoughts?
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 116–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., dwelling on each image—the more we have had to say. Canonization, the vector of less, and close reading, the vector of more, are thus the paradoxical countermovements of the modern literary system. Ideology has also served that system well, sharing with close reading the logic of the physical: to grow...
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Remembering the Pleasant Bits: Nostalgia and the Legacies of Modernism
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 132–139.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Randall Stevenson Walter Benjamin's image of the backward-looking angel of history dates from 1944 but is also relevant to earlier parts of the twentieth century, especially after August 1914. Rebecca West's Return of the Soldier is paradigmatic in theme and form of a well-charted modernist...
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Dead Men, Walking: Actors, Networks, and Actualized Metaphors in Mrs. Dalloway and Raymond
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 253–274.
Published: 01 August 2013
... existence. That these moments may be read as obvious signs of delusion or unresolved grief tells us little about the power such images had in the early twentieth century or about how metaphors at a particular historical moment might be read, shaped, disrupted, and made real. A Latourian approach, instead...
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At Land's End: Novel Spaces and the Limits of Planetarity
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 May 2016
... that the difficulty inheres in the planetary scale itself. Concluding that all contemporary planetarities—like their early twentieth-century equivalents—are at least partly attempts to remake the world in our preferred image, the argument closes by considering a humbler alternative inspired by fleeting moments...
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