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Hogarth's Networks and the Eighteenth-Century “Graphic” Novel
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to literary forms like the early novel, it instead identifies a strain of network thinking in the arts characteristic of the British eighteenth century. At this junction between network‐style thinking and the rise of complex forms of affiliation in the emerging middle classes, art forms appear...
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Photographic Fictions: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Novel Form
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to be the enabling conditions of a certain kind of literary narrative and literary form. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Armstrong , Nancy . “Fiction in the Age of Photography.” Narrative 7 ( 1999 ): 37 –55. ———. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism...
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The Coming into Being of Literature: How J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year Thinks Through the Novel
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 466–482.
Published: 01 November 2010
... with the question of literary form over the past two decades (situating Diary within Coetzee's greater oeuvre), look at how the unusual layout of the book facilitates an interrogation of fiction writing that would otherwise be impossible, and highlight how the book's tiered construction figures as a way to think...
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The Contemporary Novel and Postdemocratic Form
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 292–307.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... How to account for the convergence of these two seemingly opposed political logics? This essay argues that contemporary discussions of literary form can help us define the precise aspects of both neoliberalism and authoritarianism that make this convergence possible. Contemporary literary criticism...
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The Known World in World Literature: Bakhtin, Glissant, and Edward P. Jones
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
Published: 01 August 2009
... it certainly is.” Exploring Jones's novel in light of Bakhtin's and Glissant's theories of linguistic diversity and literary form, I ask how, and to what effect, Jones's novel connects its known world to the unknown one that we might call “the world.” © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Bakhtin...
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We Have Never Been Critical: Toward the Novel as Critique
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 397–408.
Published: 01 November 2017
... like, I outline a theory of the critique immanent to the literary form of the novel itself, and I conclude with a brief reading of a recent novel as critique, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad . * * * Notwithstanding the significant leaning of even Marxist aesthetic and cultural theory...
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Scale in Tess in Scale
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
... as a feature of cyclical rather than linear history. Through Tess , we may understand how literary form provides unique imaginative purchase on a crisis that is massive at the scale of geological time but mostly imperceptible at the scale of human experience. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...
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Pamela's Complaint: Injury, Rights, and the Politics of Story
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Allison Cardon Abstract Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded uses a literary form of legal complaint to argue that Pamela has been injured by B's violent advances. Richardson suggests that these advances should be treated as legal wrongs and that Pamela deserves to be righted. However, her social status...
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Is He Popenjoy? Deciding to Know and the Presumption of Realism
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 August 2016
... addressed doubt and chose to know its reality. “Worlding” literary forms of knowing with legal/philosophical ones, through a reading of Anthony Trollope's Is He Popenjoy? (1878), I argue that realism knows by deciding to know . A focus on the presumptions—most prominently the presumption of legitimacy...
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Walking in Bleak House
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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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The Method Effect: Empiricism and Form in Sherlock Holmes
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 449–466.
Published: 01 November 2016
... method is merely a narrative effect, nowhere carried out in the narrative structure: scientific (or other) contemporary discourse is not the “real” of literary form. By examining the retrospective closure and focalization of the Holmes formula, especially in A Study in Scarlet , I propose a different...
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Form and the Anticolonial Novel: William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that it engenders repeatedly figure torture, and scenes of torture, as the “open secret” that reveals the peculiar nature of social relations under colonialism. Examining these scenes closely reveals a set of problems for literary form that are inherent to the anticolonial novel of the postwar years...
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Faulkner's Glitches
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of contradiction, discontinuity, or ambiguity), the same critics rarely make actual negative judgments about literary form. This article examines and challenges this critical trend. It begins by introducing the new formal category of the narrative glitch : a microscopic disruption of fictional mimesis...
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Notes on the Novella
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
... has never been sufficient to determine whether a text counts as a novella. Though the novella is a global form, shared among many national literary cultures, its transnational history is muddled by terminological inconsistency. This article sets out to understand the novella as a slippery form, one...
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Black Lives Matter and the Contemporary African Novel: Form and the Limits of Solidarity
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the contemporary African literary novel, as a form, registers a response to the historical degradation of Black lives under the colonial matrix of power, which, while often sympathetic with the analytic framework of Black Lives Matter, does not always cohere with it. Reading a broad range of texts , the essay...
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The Politics of Address in George Eliot's Fiction
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
... is, in principle, fully inclusive. Eliot's reformulation of reader address inscribes into literary form two major shifts in the development of nineteenth-century reading: the exponential growth of the reading public and a paradigm shift from reading aloud, sometimes called “social reading,” to silent, solitary...
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Importing the Novel: The Arabic Novel in and as Translation
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 243–260.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of literary, cultural, and commercial value. The novel is a special kind of import produced self-consciously through translation that resituates the original form. The novel at large, early Arab novelists show us, is not a form that is translated but one formed in and by translation. Copyright © 2015...
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Secular Blasphemies: Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish Novel
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 301–326.
Published: 01 August 2012
... is productive of the modern Turkish novel and defines its literary modernity. Thus, Pamuk's dissidence also resides in modes of writing that contest the nation form and revise the secularization thesis through new representations of Turkish historiography, Istanbul cosmopolitanism, the Ottoman archive...
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Small-Scale Institutions in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 399–417.
Published: 01 November 2024
... conceptualize the difficult territory between revolutionary transformation and institutional reform. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024 Asian American literature institutions literary form the 1960s the political With its fierce protests, strikes...
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A Swamp in Name Only: Imagined Geography, Abandonment, and the Archive in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 430–450.
Published: 01 November 2023
... . “ ‘The True and Stirring Stuff of Which Romance Is Born’: Dark Princess and the Revolutionary Potential of Literary Form .” Journal of Modern Literature 36 . 4 ( 2013 ): 62 – 76 . Child Benjamin . “ The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood...
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