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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 399–417.
Published: 01 November 2024
... institutions, even as it also acknowledges the real limitations of such institutions. Rife with productive contradictions, I Hotel depicts the hotel as both real and imaginary, singular and multiple, actual and potential. In doing so, Yamashita's novel suggests ways that literary works help readers...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Robert Higney This essay examines the relationship between character and institution in Conrad's Nostromo . It argues that Nostromo undoes the Victorian impulse to reconcile the individual and the social world in the conventions of the bildungsroman and the adoption and modification of those...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Arif Camoglu Abstract This article makes a case for a critical engagement with the Ottoman institution of slavery and slave trade in its globalist rethinking of the rise of the novel. It argues that production of late Ottoman Turkish novelistic writing hinged on a domestic imagination to which...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
... an outsider theory of rights. Institutional accounts of rights suggest that rights are personal attributes of the individual or the unique inheritance of the English subject, but Pamela argues that they arise out of political conflicts over what counts as harm and what harm should be remedied. Historians...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2005
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Nasser Mufti Can the novel, so adept at making sociopolitical cohesiveness legible, help us understand society's dissolution? If novelistic writing makes national unity conceivable, often in conjunction with the institutions of national literature, language, and region, can this same literary form...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
... bridge, we find an emphasis on the radical horizontalization of political subjectivity and power against perceived hierarchies of institutional control. The discourse of laissez-faire—and sometime democratic—horizontalization turns on affect as an organizing principle (i.e., morality, sentiment, emotion...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 284–303.
Published: 01 August 2019
... in order to pass on. In the opening paragraphs of Childhood , the characters arrive on the other side of a similar portal, entering a world whose institutions reject belief as a form of unreasoned, passionate commitment. Where Costello refuses the institutional demand for belief, insisting that belief...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 245–252.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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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 (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
... lie latent in the length itself of the triple-decker novel? A reading of Bleak House suggests that its expansive form specifically allowed Dickens to represent multiple social, economic, and institutional networks. Linking the many characters in Bleak House is a dense overlapping of networked...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 116–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the newly instituted novel assumed, physically, Victorian proportions. It became a quantitative phenomenon in the history of the real. This essay outlines that history, from the primacy of the metaphysical to the physical to the virtual. As we enter electronically into that third chapter, Nancy Armstrong's...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the public sphere, which in the Turkish case has come to imply a realm that belongs to the state or its institutions ( kamu ), a strictly masculine space. Not being able to manifest herself within social structures, she fails to take part in the network of actual give-and-take that defines all exchanges...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 132–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Horacio Legrás Following the lead of Jacques Rancière, I argue in this essay that democracy andthe institution of literature share structural features that are inescapably historical in nature. The essay maps the interaction between literature and democracy in the case of two prominent contemporary...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that slides through the institutional machinery that administers literary production. It centers its investigation on the United States during a period in global cultural history when the literary field was slowly coming into existence. In this environment, a group of long short stories or short novels...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 363–380.
Published: 01 November 2015
... between the literary and the institutions of the sociohistorical world. 4 Leclerc's Crimes écrits and Dominick LaCapra's Madame Bovary on Trial offer the most thorough extant scholarship on the trial. Although LaCapra and Leclerc in different ways both suggest that the logic of the trial...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
... bears out in its plot an indictment of law's inherent abjections and an interrogation of the value of life that seem to precociously articulate the consensus of today's hegemonic biopolitical theory: that human institutions tend inexorably to subjugate humanity itself. Yet the form of the novel develops...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., but the novelistic representation of battered corpses and rat feces has proved an uncontroversial, if not welcome, addition to lesson plans across the country. This essay argues that literary disgust has irrevocably shaped institutional feeling—how students feel in schools and how schools train students to feel...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 360–364.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of such a politically engaged approach within the academy as well as various external factors. However, Daly suggests that the single factor that has done most to dethrone cultural studies has not been institutional or external pressure but the internal tendencies of literary study as a field of practice...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., this article therefore suggests that the gay closet, far from being a site of pure terror and deception, can provide a privileged outsider's vantage point on heterosexual life. In the closet, erotic desire is always at odds with social institutions; Dracula can be read in part as a horrified imagining of what...
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