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How to Be a Good Reader of World Literature

Janice Ho
Novel (2020) 53 (1): 132–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8139447
Published: 01 May 2020
...Janice Ho Gloria Fisk , Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature ( Columbia UP , 2018 ), 280 pp., cloth, $60.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 The title of Gloria Fisk's monograph is somewhat deceptive. Seemingly a throwback to a fast-disappearing species...
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From a Distance: Teju Cole, World Literature, and the Limits of Connection

Lily Saint
Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-6846174
Published: 01 August 2018
...Lily Saint Abstract This essay challenges recent theories of world literature that argue that the global anglophone novel, in particular, instantiates empathic, ethical connection across and beyond nation-states. Taking cues from Teju Cole's Open City , it understands the urge to connect...
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Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Theory and Literature

Shai Ginsburg
Novel (2019) 52 (1): 156–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7330326
Published: 01 May 2019
...Shai Ginsburg Notwithstanding these reservations, however, Bernard's Rhetorics of Belonging is a rich, insightful study of Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature as well as of postcolonial theory. Its greatest merit is that it links questions about Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature...
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Literature as a Matter of Policy

James F. English
Novel (2021) 54 (1): 131–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8868887
Published: 01 May 2021
... and George Yudice are two important contributors who come to mind. Still, one can fairly say that UNESCO, which rates a string of entries in the index to almost any book of cultural policy studies, is barely a blip on our discipline's radar screen. This is no minor blind spot. Though literature...
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Stock or Soil? The Growth of Early American Literature

Duncan Faherty
Novel (2021) 54 (1): 153–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8868977
Published: 01 May 2021
...Duncan Faherty Ezra Tawil , Literature, American Style: The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2018 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $75.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Weeding out the transatlantic roots of early American...
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Literature Counts: The Feelings of Overwhelmed

Alison Booth
Novel (2021) 54 (2): 310–314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9004639
Published: 01 August 2021
...Alison Booth Maurice S. Lee , Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2019 ), pp. 296 , cloth, $39.95 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Doubtless, reader, you are overwhelmed by what you might...
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A New Deal for Thirties Literature

JOSEPH ENTIN
Novel (2000) 34 (1): 136–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1346147
Published: 01 May 2000
...JOSEPH ENTIN MICHAEL SZALAY, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000), pp. 343, cloth, $59.95, paper, $18.95. SEAN MCCANN, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal...
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American Literature in the Age of Mass Culture

Rachel Adams
Novel (2011) 44 (2): 305–308.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-1261022
Published: 01 August 2011
...Rachel Adams American Literature in the Age of Mass Culture nancy bentley, Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870–1920 (Phila- delphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009), pp. 376, cloth, $59.95. For some time, the study of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Modernist Literature and the New Celebrity Studies

Patrick Mullen
Novel (2013) 46 (2): 332–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2088220
Published: 01 August 2013
...Patrick Mullen GOLDMAN JONATHAN , Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity ( Austin : U of Texas P , 2011 ), pp. 204 , cloth, $55.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Work Cited Boone Joseph A. Vickers Nancy J. . “Introduction: Celebrity Rites...
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Post-9/11 Literature and the Question of Ethics

Clemens Spahr
Novel (2013) 46 (3): 496–500.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2345858
Published: 01 November 2013
... of History: American Fiction in the 1990s . Iowa City : U of Iowa P , 2009 . Jameson Fredric . The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1981 . Medovoi Leerom . “Terminal Crisis? From the Worlding of American Literature to World-System...
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After History: Toward a Common Literature of the Americas

Anna Brickhouse
Novel (2014) 47 (3): 485–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2789260
Published: 01 November 2014
... Literature of the Americas maria del pilar blanco, Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination (Bronx: Fordham UP, 2012), pp. 234, cloth, $45.00. As soon as I finished Marı´a del Pilar Blanco’s Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape...
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World Literature and Its Discontents

Krupa Shandilya
Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-4150344
Published: 01 August 2017
...Krupa Shandilya Mufti Aamir , Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2016 ), pp. 304, cloth, $35.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 In recent years, the field of comparative literature has seen the emergence of a new...
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Getting to World Literature

Jonathan Arac
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-4194904
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jonathan Arac Examining changes in the study of the novel since Novel began publication in 1967, this essay focuses on the current importance of world literature as a topic for debate and exploration and suggests that complex relationships with the study of postcolonial literature have helped...
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Are Novels Literature?

Nancy Armstrong, Warren Montag
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-4194920
Published: 01 November 2017
...Nancy Armstrong; Warren Montag Armstrong and Montag offer a suspicious reading of the posttheoretical attempt to confine literature to the “surface” of the singular text. They suggest that there's a reason why this effort to redefine the way we read literature coincides with a number of major...
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Literature or Economics?

ALEX J. DICK
Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 205–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.037010205
Published: 01 August 2004
...ALEX J. DICK GORDON BIGELOW, Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 242, $65.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Literature or Economics? GORDON BIGELOW, Fiction, Famine...
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Bodies of Literature

Jamie Parra
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 542–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3651436
Published: 01 November 2016
... and yet never more enmeshed. Indeed, Character and Person shows how multitudinous the possibilities for interdisciplinary literary criticism are. By revealing character and the history of personhood to be inextricably bound together, Frow invites us to envision new relationships between literature...
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Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature

REBECCA L. WALKOWITZ
Novel (2007) 40 (3): 216–239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040030216
Published: 01 November 2007
.... Youth . London: Secker, 2002 . Coetzee , J. M. Vers l’âge d’homme . [French translation of Youth] Trans. Catherine Lauga Du Plessis. Paris: Seuil, 2003 . Damrosch , David . What is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003 . Gikandi , Simon . “Globalization...
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The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature

MICHAEL DAVIDSON
Novel (2007) 40 (3): 305–308.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040030305
Published: 01 November 2007
...MICHAEL DAVIDSON WAI CHEE DIMOCK, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 264, cloth, $35.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Reviews The Longue fhrrde of U.S. Literature...
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The Known World in World Literature: Bakhtin, Glissant, and Edward P. Jones

Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-009
Published: 01 August 2009
...Carolyn Vellenga Berman What is the “world” in “world literature”? In publishing, as in literary criticism, this term often applies to the leftovers of the international literary market: works not drawn from the major national publishing markets. It signifies, in effect, “the rest of the world...
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The Consular Service and US Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne Abroad

Amanda Claybaugh
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 284–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-016
Published: 01 August 2009
..., James Weldon Johnson, and Bret Harte. These literary consuls prompt us to think in new ways about the relation between literature and the state—and also about the various forms that national identification can take. Focusing in particular on the case of Nathaniel Hawthorne, I argue that it was while...
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