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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Ian Duncan The publication of English translations of Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1971) and The Historical Novel (1962) inaugurated a major development in North American criticism of the past half century: the turn to Continental theory for an identification of the novel...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 461–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
... colonialism. Approaching the novel from the perspective of settler colonialism offers new ways to consider classic theories of realism and, in particular, reframes Georg Lukács's concept of reification—and the critical distinction between realism and naturalism he derived from it—as an unexpectedly useful...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., that knowledge itself contains contradictions. Taking Lukács's distinction between “narrative” and “descriptive” realism as a starting point, I argue that Bouvard in fact “narrates” the very changes Lukács describes, depicting a historical shift that speaks not only to changes in literary practice...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the liminal Dostoevsky : Dostoevsky as a novelist who not only represents characters at the extremes of human being but also transgresses the conventional boundaries of literary texts. The liminal Dostoevsky became vital to two foundational works of novel theory, Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1916...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 366–372.
Published: 01 November 2009
... 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Global Lukács
Jed Esty
For most scholars interested in modernist fiction, the failure of Georg Lukács to
account for the great novels of his own era as anything other than the disjecta of a
fallen postrealism is enough to make him...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 17–19.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Timothy Bewes © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Bakhtin M. M. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Trans. Emerson Caryl . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1984 . Lukács Georg . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 190–195.
Published: 01 August 2009
... answering the call for a paper to reconsider Georg
Lukács’s Theory of the Novel from a point of view defined by “now.” This starting
point helps account for some of the shape of what follows. In thinking toward this
call, I have reached an answer. The theory of the novel that I seek requires...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 311–317.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and the commodity as
the universal structuring principle” (Lukács, History and Class Consciousness 85).
My own emphasis in this essay will, however, be rather more upon what Moretti
calls a “history of forms” than upon a “sociology of literature” per se. It is at any rate
in such regard that I want...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 187–195.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of Literature ), his work on pedagogy and aesthetics, and the literature of novel theory in the twentieth century, including the work of Georg Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin. Rancière's insistence upon the “democratic” quality of the novel form presents a quandary for many readers, due to his reluctance to speak...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 August 2014
...,” looks not just overtly Malthusian but deterministic in every sense: a brutal lesson in the impossibility of equality. Whether one approaches it, via Michel Foucault, as an illustration of power's inexorable grasp on life or, via Georg Lukács, as symptomatic of naturalism's dehumanizing ideological bent...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Aarthi Vadde This essay proposes that Michael Ondaatje's novels develop an archival method that adapts the historical novel to the globalized era. Where Georg Lukács argued that the classical historical novel awakened national sensibility through the creation of psychologically complex characters...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 August 2015
... relationship between socialism's internationalist aspirations and the resurgence of the nation and nationalism around the mid-century. The article draws on Georg Lukács's fragmentary theorization of the genre to explore an exemplary range of novels, from Fyodor Gladkov's Soviet Cement (1925) and Jean-Paul...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 180–203.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., the article repurposes Georg Lukács's theorization of the genre via Marx's concept of “origin” (primitive accumulation) of the capitalist mode of production. Treating Ghosh's trilogy as an exemplary case, this article's reading focuses on how the text's formal attributes are central to its narration...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Otto Jespersen's theorization of the relationship between grammar and social change, the article argues that the grammar of modern novels, irrespective of their representational content or individuating style, has a proleptic relation to the rise of mass society. The problems that Georg Lukács...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
... about historical contingency and how they operate in realist texts. The narrative model of emergency devised by such novels has antecedents in articulations of the improbable in canonical theorists of realism such as Georg Lukács, Fredric Jameson, and Njabulo S. Ndebele. The novelists' embrace...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the novel's ethics have been predicated upon its capacity to circulate otherness. Departing from these models, the essay revisits Erich Auerbach's claim that the contemporary novel would bear reference to “a common life.” And it considers alternative accounts of the ethics of culture in Lukács's...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., anonymous,
and interchangeable (Novak 40–52). Instead, I focus on the relationship between
Victorian photography and narrative and conclude with a brief discussion of the
relationship between photography and Lukács’s theory of the novel form.
Certainly some nineteenth-century critics linked...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 482–489.
Published: 01 November 2009
... but insufficient condition
of realism in the eyes of Marxist scholars such as Georg Lukács. A Lukács-inspired
critic might argue that Abdullah’s accurate depiction of the so-called Chinese crim-
inals fails, for instance, to orient itself within a properly historical understanding
of the colonial...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
... to Lesjak's account of realism's centrality to Jameson's thinking is again useful here. In the essay I referred to earlier, Lesjak examines the evolution in Jameson 's thinking on realism from his 1977 essay “Reflections on the Brecht-Lukács Debate” to his 1998 book Brecht and Method . 4 In 1977, before...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 20–22.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to Novostroika . Durham : Duke UP , 1993 . Lukács Georg . Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Bostock Anna . Cambridge, MA : MIT P , 1971 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding...
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