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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 197–205.
Published: 01 May 2010
... © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Index
Theories of the Novel Now
Parts I (42:2), II (42:3), and III (43:1)
abstraction, I: 311 Aretino, Pietro, II: 497
Achebe, Chinua...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 August 2015
.... The article also poses the question of what it would mean to approach literary artifacts as forms of language-in-use similar to talk, finding inspiration in Proust's Recherche for elaborating an answer to that question. Attention to nonsemantic, pragmatic, indexical features of talk (habits of pronunciation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 239–244.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., for pleasure, perhaps even for real. The claim of the novel to be an index of historicity rests on the genre's ability to stage the irreducible interplay of divergent scales of history, the long time of romance, and the local time of realism. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Appiah , Kwame...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 311–317.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and capital, very abstract and terribly concrete at one and the same time.” Here modes of abstraction are less a flight from reality and more an index of the various social forms of “real abstraction” constitutive of the “unrepresentable” totality of modernity itself. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 May 2014
... both to legitimize “the People” of democracy and to manage the inherent instability in that category, and dominant theoretical models for explaining literature's democratic potential have also relied on and naturalized those mechanisms. Yet Krik? Krak! indexes the many exclusions smuggled in through...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of fear,” and its development within networks of global capital, all indexes of the ultimate failure of the nation to move beyond its segregated past. In this essay, I will focus on representations of Johannesburg's mutancy, a concept that foregrounds its temporal movements rather than its spatial...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
... poetry and suggesting that even external indexes of social presentation come to be felt within the contours of bodily sensation, further expanding the scope and narrative pressure of hearsay. I conclude by outlining the wider interest of rumor as a category for thinking about the representation of moral...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 438–452.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and space that it details, the essay develops a concept of “book memory” that, in a much more personal way than the larger field of “book history,” indexes the affective investment of an individual reader in a particular copy of a book. As a particular book bears the traces of a reader's individual...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
...—as indexical of larger geopolitical change at the far end of the American Century? Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Realism modernism Victorian Cold War Across the humanities and in nonacademic critical forums, semantic and scholastic debates gather around the word realism like...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 524–530.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Citizenship in Zimbabwe.” Third World Quarterly 26 ( 2005 ): 369 -82. Crisis States Workshop. “Crisis, Fragile and Failed States; Definitions Used by the CSRC.” Crisis States Development Research Centre Definitions . London: London School of Economics, 2006 . “Failed States Index Scores 2007...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., alchemic mix of “illegibilities, distortions, and affective conflicts” (7). Read as the formal index to larger geopolitical attachments and solidarities, these flickering forms bring to light a modernism long and still shaped by the political imaginary of internationalism. Modernism's salience...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 149–153.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
misspellings carefully preserved in the volume's index, which makes reference to an
author named "Marturin" who seems to have no first name (strangely enough, the first
volume's index does list Charles Maturin and his work correctly).
Most of the material in footnotes is also not indexed, so...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 60–64.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and always says the right thing. But Hyacinth
is not merely right here; he is, to the Princess’s discriminating eye, never wrong.
Hyacinth never makes a mistake.
What would it mean never to make a mistake? On the one hand, we see that
this is another index of what is strange about Hyacinth’s...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 August 2023
... signature moves: her repeated use of indexicals such as “this” or “there she was.” Russell's own term for indexicals, Zhang notes, is egocentric particulars , words whose “denotation is relative to the speaker” (216). “Strictly speaking,” Zhang observes, such terms are “mutually unintelligible” (154...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 432–439.
Published: 01 November 2000
... within each book and across textual boundaries, to be an ongoing source of
discussion.
There are a few editorial elements whose addition would have added to the books' sub-
stantial benefits, the most notable being full indexes for all the texts. Klein's text provides
no index at all...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 381–399.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of hopefulness. Estha and Rahel's shared loss, and the psychological effects they carry well into adulthood, is indexed in their shared scream. In the moment that “Estha's voice lift[s] into a wail” and promptly stops, Rahel “double[s] over” in pain, her own scream resuming the sound her beloved brother can...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the relationship between Dreiser's use of the camera as plot device and the photographic nature of his style is any account of indexicality. This is all the more puzzling given the chapter's impressive demonstration of just how central the word now is to the structure of An American Tragedy . The word now...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
... flor de mi secreto catalogues its dispersal of Leo's libidinal investments to places out of reach or contact. It finishes with the promise of new friendship. Seriality and mechanical reproduction as indexes of lowbrow's pulp status are explicitly evoked but poeticized in images of production...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 493–496.
Published: 01 November 2014
... as a ‘‘tool’’ for producing affective and literary value.
The Poor Bugger’s Tool stages a much-needed dialogue between queer theory and Marxist
critique, fields that have too often ignored each other. (It is revealing, Mullen notes, that ‘‘just
as ‘Karl Marx’ does not appear in the index of Epistemology...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 489–492.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the
gendering of boredom in Mansfield’s work, detailing the dreary domesticity that frames
Mansfield’s depiction of the ‘‘affective index of social and sexual isolation’’ as a form of
feminine captivity in the settler colony (73–75). Missing here is a fuller discussion of Maata,
mentioned tantalizingly...
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