... as a consequence of investing it with a libidinal charge. Lethem's novel Motherless Brooklyn (1999) offers a case study in which the narrator Lionel's Tourettic tics gain significance not for some psycho-biographical cause they reveal but for their effects, on the reader as much as on the world of the text itself...

... as the characters' hope that England's isolation will protect them from the plague is dashed, so the ideal of “man's mind alone” becomes, in the form of Lionel Verney adrift in his ship, once again an “inconsiderable speck” on a “shoreless ocean.” © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Baucom , Ian...

... to Ray's assertion and, NOVEL 1 SPRING 2006 more importantly, renders "more-Indian-than-thou" poseurs like David a target of King's satire. The authors here fall prey, I think, to their own theoretical predilections. As they do when discussing Lionel Red Dog's ostensible...

... materialist than thou," Barrish locates than in influential sources as diverse as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, and Stuart Hall. With a neo-deconstructionist's passion for subtlety, he argues per- suasively against the oversimplifications that new historicist, cultural studies, and old- humanist...

...); in 1932, Lionel Robbins discovered that the “conflict of choice”—the need to decide which “alternative uses” should receive the available means—that scarcity imposes on all social activity is “one of the permanent characteristics of human existence” ( 29 ). This essay locates symptoms of scarcity's...

... professional patterning in the later middle twentieth century: when the novel was still not fully academically recognized as a leading kind of writing, major thinking about the novel, especially beyond the boundaries of single nations, tended to happen in essays rather than in books. So Lionel Trilling's book...

... by “the forms of suspension or equivocation that mark his moral stance” (112). If ambivalence, complexity, and irony are your aesthetic preferences, maybe this stuff goes down well. Anderson's primary exemplar of bleak liberalism is Lionel Trilling. She argues that his chastened political views, which...

... , Michael . Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses . New York: Routledge, 1993 . Trilling , Lionel . “A Passage to India.” Twentieth-Century Interpretations of A Passage to India. Ed. Andrew Rutherford. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1970 . 17 –32. Zizek...

... . Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1998 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : U of California P , 1991 . Trilling Lionel . The Liberal Imagination . New York : Doubleday...

... A. McClure strays into Lionel Trilling’s “dark and bloody crossroads,” where discussions of literature merge with political concerns, made more dangerous here by the addition of an on-ramp for the highway to heaven. His book, a study of the spiritual commitments of seven major contemporary American...

..., and Emotion in American Literary Realism . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2007 . Trilling Lionel . The Liberal Imagination . 1950 . New York : New York Review of Books , 2008 . Warren Arthur . “Harold Frederic, the Reminiscences of a Colleague.” New York Times 23 October 1898...

... Peter Thacker Andrew . New York : Routledge , 2005 . 31 – 42 . Trilling Lionel . E. M. Forster . New York : New Directions , 1965 . Walkowitz Rebecca L. Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation . New York : Columbia UP , 2006 . Watt Ian . Conrad...

... of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel . Columbus : Ohio State UP , 1991 . Austen Jane . Pride and Prejudice . London : Penguin , 1972 . Bently Lionel Davis Jennifer Ginsburg Jane C. , eds. Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique . New York...

... in a Bourgeois World . Ed. Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997 . 239 –62. Trilling , Lionel . E. M. Forster . 1943. New York: Harcourt, 1964 . Trilling , Lionel . The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society . New York: Doubleday, 1949...

... , Philip . The Grotesque . London: Methuen, 1972 . Trilling , Lionel . Sincerity and Authenticity . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972 . Wasson , Richard . “A Handful of Dust: Critique of Victorianism.” Carens 133 –43. Waugh , Evelyn . “Apotheosis of an Unhappy Hypocrite.” Essays...

... Lionel . “Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen.” Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook . Ed. Stafford Fiona . New York : Oxford UP , 2007 . 83 – 100 . Vernon James . Hunger: A Modern History . Cambridge : Belknap , 2007 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe...

... . In animating interest in this way, I argue, works such as 127 Hours offer a searing incarnation of the microeconomic model of human behavior. Often described via Lionel Robbins's now canonical description of economics as “the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce...

... by intellectuals laboring in the institutional crucible that was the American Century. Cold war antirealisms are difficult to track in their subtlety but were widespread across the critical landscape of postwar American letters. From New York critics like Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, and Harry Levin...

... to be able to (re)think the future. Most importantly, and of course to different de gees, the books take the risk of affect, with Lynch's collection most obviously entering the interzone of identification. Lynch offers Miss Bates's account of readerly love as an alter- native to Lionel Trilling's...

... be genuinely revolutionary without necessarily being tied to ruptural revolution in the classic Marxist sense. According to early detractors like Granville Hicks and Lionel Trilling, who inaugurated many decades of dismissive Cather criticism, Cather's failings lay less in her diagnoses of the ills...