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Maxing Out the Novel
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 November 2016
... : Penguin , 1995 . Despite the problematic nature of this example, Ercolino has taken full advantage not only of characterizing but also of naming the putative genre of the maximalist novel. As the narrator of Gravity's Rainbow remarks, “names by themselves may be empty, but the act of naming...
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Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
... one, considering that it ranged from Dostoyevsky's and Tolstoy's historical and philosophical novels, as well as the emergence of the novel-essay, to the revival of the roman à thèse in the second half of the nineteenth century and, later, the rise of the maximalist novel in the twentieth and twenty...
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The Cybernetic Victorians
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2020
... automatisms on the same plane on which we consider how our reading practices are inflected by feelings, values, and social conventions is a fascinating proposition. It offers a middle ground between feeling and philosophy as explanatory frameworks of reader engagement. It also complements maximalist...
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Contre Proust . . . ?
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 442–446.
Published: 01 November 2024
... points arising out of the relationship of literary forms to time are highlighted by the plethora of critical terms that pass through Anderson's essays: “historical novel” ( xi ), “ Zeitroman ” (xi, 148), “metahistorical fiction” (150), “maximalist novel” (169), or Fredric Jameson's “postmodern meganovels...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
... are producing work for an American audience by violating tenets of cultural authenticity but that they are, in fact, not problematizing the model of cultural authenticity encouraged by institutional tutelage. The bourgeois maximalist voice that nurtured ethnic writing now encourages the global writer...
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Henry James's Minimalist Novel
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
... novel builds toward historical, cultural, and psychological insights through the accumulation of detail, and a “maximalist” novel might parodically recapitulate this additive method, a minimalist novel continually undermines prose's productivity. James's writing does not look like literature we...
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Casting Shadows at Chesney Wold: Empty-House-Time and Realism in the British Novel
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., quiet interior but the lively, grimy street where one finds the “smell and savour and soot of London” (620). Ultimately, her defense is of Dickens at his most maximalist, a celebration of the episodes in which his powerful, almost indiscriminate visual imagination renders the excesses of life in London...
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Realism Wars
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
... literary style (“Literature” 74). She identifies a widespread sense of exhaustion with certain obviously modernist lineages, both the minimalist line (Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett to Jorge Luis Borges and Coetzee) and the maximalist line (James Joyce and William Faulkner to Günter Grass and García...
