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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
... conventions in Conrad's earlier novels (such as Lord Jim ) by constructing a narrative in which development has been relocated from the interesting individual to what the novel calls “material interests” and what Conrad elsewhere terms “political institutions.” Nostromo' s flattened characters, proliferation...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 284–303.
Published: 01 August 2019
...)—aimed at what she takes to be the town's emergent welfare state, the gate official cannot understand the joke. “At the Gate” harbors a negative fascination with the very premise of institutionality. Costello has in fact already begun worrying that she may herself become an “institution,” a monument...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 482–489.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Sanjay Krishnan In this essay I ask whether there is a mode of writing that we can call “underdeveloped.” I examine two writers from the periphery, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir and V. S. Naipaul, in order to consider how realist modes take effect in social formations where institutions of the modern...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., “geometrically constructed,” riveted by the study of lines and shapes. Reading Jude 's manifold geometric imagery in the context of the revolutionary non-Euclidean break in Victorian-era mathematics and tracing the novel's bold typographic experiments, this essay highlights Hardy's surprising exuberance about...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and the institution) and the cloakroom (the site of irrationality and behaviors that cannot be institutionalized). Norris, that is, situates the outside of the institution inside the institution. Interest thus breaks down into disgust not by reaching some external barrier but through its own inner logic...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 132–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., ‘‘The institution of literature in the
West, in its relatively modern form, is linked to an authorization to say everything, and doubtless
too to the coming about of the modern idea of democracy’’ (37).
LEGRA´ S POLITICAL SUBJECTION IN LATIN AMERICA 135
whole areas...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., theorizing their significance, and deciding how they might be remedied. Through its interest in legal injury, Pamela dramatizes a theory of rights that emerges out of the disjunction between outsider and institutional politics. It reverses the institutionalized connection between rights and injury: where...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2015
... institutions and publication history. Other chapters address young Caribbean authors working in London after World War II—George Lamming, Sam Selvon, V. S. Naipaul—and the importance of literary institutions such as the BBC radio show Caribbean Voices (recorded in England and broadcast on the BBC's...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and Portuguese and director of the Critical Theory
Institute at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Literature and Subjection (2008) and
Cultures of Revolution (forthcoming).
elizabeth s. anker is associate professor of English at Cornell University. The author of Fictions...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
... stature in the literary field. For all the talk about its anti-institutionality and noncanonicity, the novel has thus proved very much assimilable to modern institutional life: there are, we might observe, peculiar and intimate connections between the novel and administration. The dramatic expansion...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 281–285.
Published: 01 August 2015
... with a movement that has grown out of a small network of contemporary Americanists (many students of Walter Benn Michaels), a small conference, and the online journal Post•45 , marks its own form of institutionalization. Perhaps in the same way that Duke University Press's New Americanists series marked a new...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 2016
... passengers spell the same doom for British society. While a certain trajectory of New Historicism within Victorian studies has viewed representations of filth as the occasion for institutionalizing forms of disciplinary power, I want to approach mud through the work of Georges Bataille rather than from...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a natural process emerging from the canonization of postcolonial literature epitomized by writers like Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, and Arundhati Roy. To some extent, the institutionalization of postcolonial literature has arisen from what political theorist and economist Giovanni Arrighi ( Resurgence...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and distance between Western readers and his foreign characters. Furthermore, by altering the representation of historical events in Turkey in ways that elude most non-Turkish readers, Pamuk “thematize[s] the limits of the mimetic representation in world literature” (84) and reveals how realism is always...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the listener yet to come as well as one's own future experience of the music. H. S. Turner writes of the dangers of ignoring the institution of the corporation in the early modern period in a manner that carries over into the more contemporary inquiry I have been pursuing here: “[T]he analytical value...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): iv.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of the Humanities and Assistant Professor
of English at Brown University. He has recently completed a book manuscript, Facing the Cnnrera:
A~nericanFiclioir ntrd fhe Itimage of Photogmpiiy. S~ACEYMAXGOLIS is Associate Professor of English at
the University...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
... need to see that Richardson’s marriage plot unfolds not just in terms of the
couple—Pamela and Mr. B.—but in terms of a triangle: Pamela, Mr. B., and Mr.
Williams, the clergyman who is under Mr. B.’s patronage and who plays a central
role in the events that lead to his patron’s marriage. Mr...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 236–254.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., or even opposite . . . purpose[s]” to which the panopticon could be put, he made a list of verbs including not only punishing but also reforming , instructing , and training (34). The verbs spotlight Bentham's ultimate investment in actions, where institutions are designed to induce actions...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 279–297.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of Daughterhood: Gender, Nationalism and the Making of Literary Tradition(s).” Cultural Institutions of the Novel . Ed. Deirdre Lynch and William B. Warner Durham: Duke UP, 1996 . 249 –75. Andrade , Susan Z. The Ethics of Identity . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005 . Appiah , Kwame Anthony...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 406–424.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . . . by cycling back through previous cultural forms and, in effect, re-institutionalizing them” (342). The conventions of literature—genre and, by extension, genre fiction—might be the focus of literary preservation in the face of reflexive modernity's threat to social institutions. McGurl suggests...
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