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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
... the people who read his novels and through the way he constructs characters within them. As twenty-first-century readers, we may assume that there have always been adults-only books, and that we recognize them when we see them because they foreground things like sex and formal complexity while minimizing...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 210–225.
Published: 01 August 2018
... choices in radically minimal and/or highly codified settings. I focus here on the most prevalent cultural form in the microeconomic mode, the survival game, as manifested in Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel Gone Girl (2013). By examining the novel's use of the survival game as a response...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
... unbearably visible, thereby rendering interpretation unsatisfyingly tentative. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Henry James The Ambassadors minimalism advertising style What is a “minimalist” novel? This essay offers an answer to that question by taking up a writer whose...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 209–211.
Published: 01 August 2004
... confession[s]" (110); the stigmatizing of certain characters, especially but not
solely transgressive women; and what Hertz calls Eliot's "persistent drive towards rudi-
mentary structures" (141)-that is, structures of "minimal distance or difference" (140) or
"small, minimally differentiated...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 439–442.
Published: 01 November 2006
... for his guilt and withdraws further and further into a sense of persecution and
paranoia. Rousseau remains haunted by his actions because he has minimized whatever is
ethically dubious in his story. O'Rourke comes back, of course, to the mu& written about
early incident with Marion...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the intellectual legacy of nonaction, which filters down into the era of neoliberalism: the system of technocracy par excellence. 7 In the technocratic societies that Lewis heralds, acting on one's emotions, “noble instincts,” or indeed principles is deemed to be inappropriate and is replaced by risk-minimizing...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 303–304.
Published: 01 November 2007
... accessibly articulate analogue to a member of our family
whom I cannot help but think we abandoned.'
This isn't the first time Ishiguro's narrator, whose deadpan minimalism is
closer to silence than speech, has left me feeling speechlessly sad. And on my
own: as if the programmatic situation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., it is, for the Victorian critic, the shortest possible
unit in which the effect of a text can be felt by a reader. It is not maximal so much
as minimal—thus the frequent tone of apology, as in Bagehot’s review, that the
excerpts are not longer than they are. (As an aside, I would add that this is coinci-
dent...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 381–399.
Published: 01 November 2015
... delimit women's already minimal property rights. 3 While significant legislative amendments were made in the twentieth century to provide greater economic protections for women, particularly regarding the right to inherit family property and the right to divorce, the economic and legal position...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... or culture, Buell generalizes from a set of books that fit this description. These books feature extensive social microcosms with minimal personal relations among the members, organized around a threat of totalizing authority—as in Moby-Dick , Dos Passos’s USA trilogy, or Gravity’s Rainbow...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2000
.... The novel goes further. By claiming, so to speak,
that what was conceived mentally was the work of the woman alone, Schreiner
effectively excludes the man, not only in his role as lover or husband, but also as
influence or "stimulator" to the intellect. Influence is minimized inThe Story ofan...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 May 2004
... that minimize the abuse of white male
patriarchal power and suggest instead that male desire explains the presence of mixed
race children in the plantation south. Laws and codes governing enslaved peoples' lives,
not only provide the context for the text of these stories, but as Davis argues...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 475–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... judgment on the close reading of Japanese fiction offered here). Laing Hill points out, rightly enough, that recent scholarship on American naturalism has minimized the debt of writers such as Frank Norris and Dreiser to Zola, a connection readily acknowledged by earlier criticism. But the decision...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
... repository of storytelling tradition” ( 236 ). If minimalism allowed white writers to think of their writing as craft, maximalism urged ethnic writers to think about their writing as ventriloquism. While the emphasis on voice was precipitated by gains in domestic civil rights legislation, McGurl does...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 299–302.
Published: 01 August 2006
... an incidental list in Wright's autobiographical work Black Boy, JanMohamed
reads each of these items as a "designation of a sensual experience" and an "act of erotic
suturing that sequentially but discretely and minimally reattaches the subject to a life that
he has mme close to losing" (150). Such deft...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of minimalism” as well as his portrayal of McEwan as a “reluctant impressionist.” Following in the footsteps of T. S. Eliot's “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1921) rather than Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence (1973), both of which were notably much more interested in poetry than fiction, James's...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 284–303.
Published: 01 August 2019
...,” signifies little more than a commitment or passion in excess of reason and experience. This excessiveness of belief explains why belief in fiction must remain so minimal as to be barely remarked upon in the realist novel. If, as Costello claims, her books “merely spell out . . . how people lived...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... it is the foundation of his ‘regret-minimization framework’ and helped him to find the courage to start Amazon. If he has noticed that the novel is about how class subordination ruins people's lives, he hasn't said so.” It is not a problem per se that he so misreads the novel. He would not be the first captain...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 137–141.
Published: 01 May 2023
... form's ability to think totality. Kornbluh approaches it from a different angle. Working against the critical consensus that the novel is expansive, she argues instead that “the form of this novel turns out to be conspicuously delimited in ways that pinpoint a surprising minimalism ” (79). If we...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., there are only “minimal instances of genuine eroticism between
men and women; men themselves are infrequently depicted as objects of desire” (36).
Where does Eros go? Into luxury items. Chick lit is defined by “the importance accorded
to consumption, particularly the ability to select the correct...
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