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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
Published: 01 August 2009
... literature; I tease out its approach to “the world” by exploring it alongside a recent novel representing one of the local worlds with which Glissant is most concerned. I focus on Edward P. Jones's depiction of a slave plantation in Virginia in 1855 in The Known World (2003). Reading this novel in light...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 243–260.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Rebecca C. Johnson Taking as a case study the first known novel to be originally written in Arabic, Khalīl al-Khūrī’s Alas, I Am Not a Foreigner , this essay addresses the centrality of translation to the Arabic novel as it circulated in transnational Arabic print networks as part of both Arab...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
... vapors swirling around Gissing in life he transmogrified into fiction, such that the vitriol attack on Clara Hewett in The Nether World comes to stand for his own brand of realism: fiery, punishing, and unsentimental. Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide , written by a novelist not known for adhering to the realist...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 6–9.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and noncausal bargaining enters into all our cooperative relationships with each other. Such bargaining can be illuminated by game theory and, in particular, by the version of prisoner's dilemma known as “Newcomb's problem.” Newcomb's problem models some of our most important relationships with each other...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Lisa Zunshine My essay emphasizes the social aspect of our engagement with fictional narratives by drawing on cognitive scientists' research into “theory of mind,” also known as “mind reading”: our evolved adaptation for explaining people's behavior in terms of their mental states, such as thoughts...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 31–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... (1859), known for its famous statement of realist principles and its depiction of heroic common people set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Though the novel takes place in the English countryside, the narrator invokes a presumed audience who differ profoundly from the novel's peasant...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and significance to Melville of a unique acoustic phenomenon known as sympathetic resonance that, in Pierre , models the relation between sound and significance that is threatened by the possibility of incest. And the essay's final part shows how Melville's insistent figurations of the problem of incest through...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
... for ecocriticism, which has often privileged immersive experience and a relatively simplistic view of the referentiality of language, particularly realism, known as “ecomimesis.” Reading Charles Dickens's Bleak House alongside the artificial climates contained in Victorian glasshouses, this article argues...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 August 2016
... a historically contingent reflection of and on how we choose (knowingly or unknowingly but always communally) to know our world and make it known. Reading Is He Popenjoy? in this way allows us not only to discover surprising affinities between legal conventions and literary ones but also to understand the social...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 452–471.
Published: 01 November 2020
... or understand necessarily mean coexisting with what cannot be known, discovered, or recovered. 2 See Carlton et al. 1402 and Parry xvii. Richard Lloyd Parry describes the Tōhoku earthquake as “the biggest earthquake ever known to have struck Japan and the fourth most powerful in the history of seismology...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 424–443.
Published: 01 November 2011
... exhibitions, two of modernism's best-known ironists, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster, discovered that attending to the gaze these visual contact zones solicit—a detached scientific gaze that does not empathize with who or what one looks upon but instead encourages exhibition visitors to imagine themselves...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 546–549.
Published: 01 November 2016
... detail, projected an ideal colonial community of labor rewarded without making an awkward break with the ideology of empire. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's better-known Letters from an American Farmer receives the detailed analysis it deserves. The book was something of a publishing sensation after...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of Letters . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2004 . Coetzee J. M. , and Kurtz Arabella . The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction, and Psychotherapy . New York : Viking , 2015 . Cole Teju . Known and Strange Things: Essays . New York : Random House , 2016 . Cole Teju...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
... one. The Singer could have retained the name “Bob Marley” without any gain of particularity. We only ever see him doing what Marley is known to have done—he lives at 56 Hope Road in Kingston ( James 235 ); he performed at the Smile Jamaica Peace Concert ( 79 ); his nickname is the Tuff Gong (257); he...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 227–247.
Published: 01 August 2021
...—and without which, they asserted, the novel would be greatly improved. They sometimes extended this idea to include the Italian setting as a whole, despite, as I argue below, what would have been the Victorian reader's familiarity with it as well as Eliot's own efforts to showcase its best-known features...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 441–451.
Published: 01 November 2017
... my identity subjects me. This question is not amenable to an analysis that places the categories of identity in an additive frame and is thus drawn to the pluralism of parallel construction, slipping into what Scott critiques as the already known. The living, moving critique that emerges from...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 313–316.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by—modernist writers. At the Violet Hour is that rare critical work that brings genuinely fresh insights to even the most well-known works and topics. The book examines violence between 1890 and 1940 across both time and conflicts, as a grim continuum that shifted both representation and language. Rather...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Tragedy , and Edward P. Jones's The Known World . What unites these texts is what Weinstein disarmingly calls their “wobbly” hold on temporal sequence, which “usually takes the form of a character marking out units of time in the face of experiences that make that impossible” (4, 6). Weinstein's patient...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 374–397.
Published: 01 November 2003
..., The County and the City (296)
"I don't suppose any of you have ever heard of Patusan?" (133). Chapter twenty-
one of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim begins with this question and the reader learns
that the young eponymous hero has made his way to Patusan, a remote island
district known by few and visited...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 324–328.
Published: 01 August 2011
... “teleopoesis” or “the figural opening up to a difference whose
content is not in advance known and whose effect is to reverse previous value” as the ethi-
CH Ak r avorT Y | worlding the nation and its ghosts 325
cal impulse behind ghost reading (101). As a theoretically...
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