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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Eleni Coundouriotis This article discusses the chronotope of humanitarian emergencies in realist fiction. Novels that depict the effects of prolonged and extreme insecurity often include improbable figures, characters in which they invest a hope for the future and who are presented as inventive...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Fabio L. Vericat Abstract This essay proposes to consider how The American (1875) is symptomatic of Henry James's elocutionary insecurities about the demands the European nineteenth-century novel placed on the authorial voice—crucially aggravated by the American stutter that accompanied the young...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 466–470.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to the structure of the chapters, since they establish the discourse of security against which literary valorizations of insecurity are set. We find in Voelz's method, then, not so much an antihistoricism as a weak or secondary historicism. One finds here another invitation to begin a more dialectical critical...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 496–500.
Published: 01 November 2013
... connection” that the novels set in motion
reaches out to the “implied reader” (296). As Banita argues, the narrative ethics developed
by post-9/11 literature attempts “to encapsulate and safeguard a sense of empathetic iden-
tity constantly torn between individual insecurity and the interpersonal...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 May 2000
... imaginative texts merge and blend in illuminating the large pattern that they bring
into view-the triumphant but nervous and insecure ideology of Victorian domesticity.
They are wonderfully successful in their aims. For example, juxtaposing "The Deceased
Wife's Sister Bill" legislative agitation...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 1999
... of these functionaries as
inevitably bourgeois or petty bourgeois, Lennox's novels humanize and compli-
cate his critique by unmasking the profound economic and social insecurities at
home and abroad which led liminally aristocratic Britons to fall back on gentility
and polite manners both to signify...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 212–215.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., and will console only those who do not worry about the
contemporary ideological ramifications of the works they teach. Nevertheless, we should
not forget that the writerly project of amnesia is almost always insecure, agonistic,
JOHN KUCICH I AMNESIAC FICTION
incomplete...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 291–294.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Goring's case for a correla-
tion between politeness and sensibility. As he acknowledges once in passing, "it was the
body, with its tendency to be aroused 'improperly', which implanted insecurities in the
venture" of the sentimental writers (168). Indeed, the reasons why a weeping body would...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 161–164.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of commodification, Pearson excoriated the “provincial condition” of postwar New Zealand society (91), characterizing the archetypal kiwi as smug, cynical, and anti-intellectual. Pearson, and by extension the nationalist aesthetic movement he championed, valorized insecurity as a stimulating corrective...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 May 2022
...; on the other hand, Indian nationalist writers countered the Luddite registers of Gandhi's independence movement through an embrace of technology. Reading the archive, Morse positions the Eastern Service less as a philosophical or existential artifact of what Said calls “insecurity of possession” ( 63 ) than...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 324–328.
Published: 01 August 2011
... displaced in time” (266). Propelled by such recognition of ontological insecurity, ghost
reading remains attuned to the developmental disruptions, instabilities, and temporal dis-
continuities that undergird narratives of race and nation (100–101). Following Spivak and
Derrida, Cooppan invokes...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 388–405.
Published: 01 November 2022
... fuels radically disrupt long-standing ecosystems, the most urgent threat facing people around the world is not oppressive stasis but radical instability—intensifying poverty and food insecurity, flooding, forest fires, violent conflicts over water, the rapid extinction of species. The poorest and most...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 221–237.
Published: 01 August 2012
... on. Through the eyes of Henry
Perowne, a surgeon living the life of the upper middle classes, the reader is con-
fronted with the traumatic effects of 9/11, a slightly paranoid sense of insecurity,
the impending war on Iraq, antiwar rallies, and the question of social class. Above
all, however...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 546–554.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., in a
place as dangerous as Chile. Everything is just too normal, suspiciously normal,
as if nothing were happening out there. He feels insecure; he cannot help but wait
for the moment when a group of fascist radicals breaks into the house to beat the
hell out of everybody. But nothing happens...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 265–288.
Published: 01 November 2007
... I IMMATERIAL LABORS
characters invite speculation upon the intriguing forms of psychic insecurity that
must be dealt with when the imagined community of the nation is effectively
separated from the imagined community of the welfare state. In one sense, pro-
fessional psychic insecurity...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 84–106.
Published: 01 May 2019
... status is too insecure to directly confront her boss. Her anxiety about getting a job with equally good conditions leads her to vow to tolerate the surveillance (131). Such a tacit armed truce is typical of put-upon care workers and their overdirecting employers ( Hondagneu-Sotelo, “Blowups” 55–56...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 2014
... , ed. Le livre noir du colonialisme . XVIe–XXIe siècle: De l'exterminationà la repentance . Paris : Laffont , 2003 . “Full Text: Writers' Statement on Cartoons.” BBC News 1 March 2006 < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4764730.stm >. Gallab Abdullahi A. “The Insecure...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the hollow, insecure sense of existence that was so telling for Lukács and Adorno and that they attribute to the disenchantments of a manufactured world—may have been prepared already by a linguistic state in which a subject/agent is rationalized to its grammatical positionality. Language is an emergent...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
... intersected with the everyday realities of extended isolation, rampant illness, and general insecurity. Fiction in the multiple forms of Telephone grants us access to the affective coordinates of this unique conjuncture by attuning readers' ability to hear what others are saying. As alluded...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 216–231.
Published: 01 August 2001
... be sheltered by
his inexperience from the perfidy of the rest of the lawyers the novel portrays.
That her father arranged her disastrous marriage to the spendthrift Benjamin Smith in an
attempt to safeguard her financial future only attests to the insecurity and risk run by the
woman...
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