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... to and predicts the situation diagnosed by Stiegler in For a New Critique of Political Economy . Finally, I point to a cycle of sublimation and desublimation in the novel regarding knowledge and stupidity, a complex cycle that nonetheless makes it possible to read the ascetic-aesthetic copy-mapping project...

...Horacio Legrás Following the lead of Jacques Rancière, I argue in this essay that democracy andthe institution of literature share structural features that are inescapably historical in nature. The essay maps the interaction between literature and democracy in the case of two prominent contemporary...

... in a transformed public sphere. In Arthur Mervyn , the yellow fever epidemic works as a fantasy of exposure, an impossible kind of social transparency that ultimately serves as a map for comprehending the mysterious workings of a “connected age.” © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works...

... novelists employ the conventions in characters who understand the world as a simple, single totality. For both writers, the cult serves to draw a contrast with the novels' own self-consciously complex cognitive maps of the contemporary world system. The Cult and the World System: The Topoi...

..., as treasure maps for the whole phenomenon, two acutely comic parables of modern reading proffered, exactly half a century apart, in the pages of the Tatler and Tristram Shandy . © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin...

..., historically inside the field of civil society yet ideologically outside it, assumes a relentless antagonism to its norms. The division of narratives maps the conceptual antagonism between civil society, a collective composed of individuals and a formal system of regulated differences, and fanaticism...

... foregrounding of archival documents (letters, maps, ships' logs, newspaper clippings, etc.), loosens Powell's characters from the social identities to which they were bound. I offer a reading between novel and archive, focusing on a letter being written by Powell's protagonist, Lowe, and the letter's...

...Andrew Gaedtke Recent developments in cognitive science have overturned the restrictions of behaviorism and have once again made consciousness a legitimate object of scientific investigation. New brain scanning technologies have introduced the possibility of mapping the neural correlates...

...Brian Richardson ERIC BULSON, Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 , Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. xii + 176, cloth, $103.00, paper, $40.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Cartographic...

... of illuminating the surrounding screen-surface, drawing latent vectors and terrains to visibility, so something of flow-space, of the grid itself, might glow and fizz, for a short while at least, while I speak. Because, you see, it seems to me that this is where it all begins: with maps. For some time now...

... and is unmarked on any maps of the territory. Proving knowledgeable of his surroundings and willing to guide the lama first into the Lahore Museum and then toward food and shelter, Kim is quickly adopted by the lama as his chela , or disciple. This first discovery then sets in motion a convoluted series of other...

...; rather, archival forms (e.g., maps, dictionaries, memoirs) are reframed through speculative genres (e.g., science fiction and fantasy), disrupting presumptions of historical narrative and its effects. In his historical genre fictions, Ghosh oscillates between narrating the fictional past via archival...

... in the British imaginary. Imperialist fantasies at the turn of the century were considerably restrained by the geographical fact that the planet was largely mapped and divided. Even before Lenin's famous 1917 assertion that "the world is completely divided up, so that in the future only...

... as a free and independent state was prime propaganda material for the political ambitions of Imlay's friend and business partner James Wilkinson. William Winterbotham, a disciple of Imlay's whose story takes up one of the most fascinating chapters in the book, published maps of Kentucky with “phantom towns...

... Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2006 . Cosgrove , Denis E. Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining, and Representing the World . London: Tauris, 2008 . Duncan , James , and Nancy Duncan. Landscapes of Privilege...

... Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910–1945 . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995 . Piper , Karen . Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002 . Pynchon , Thomas . Gravity's Rainbow . New York: Viking, 1973 . Saint-Amour...

...JIM EGAN MARTIN BRÜCKNER, The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2006), pp. 296, cloth, $49.95, paper, $22.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Geography Lessons MAR...

... are articulated, maintained, and perpetuated. In this way, Apartheid and Beyond is as much an exploration of the “socio-spatial dialectic” (3) in South African literature as it is a mapping of “apartheid’s geographies of power” (100). Although the politics of place as a thematic fil conducteur runs...

... visual mediums that the novel invokes in the narration of the events that culminate in the First Opium War. Both Sea and Flood begin with images of maps. The map in Sea , “The Journey of the Ibis ,” traces the vessel's route from the Baltimore docks around the Cape of Good Hope toward Hindustan...

... experience of “pain and sorrows” from which he resolves “to extricate himself” by procuring a map (64–65). Where words as well as stones put Uncle Toby’s life in jeopardy, the map saves him, enabling him to “give his visitors [a] distinct . . . history of . . . where he had the honour to receive his...