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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 504–510.
Published: 01 November 2009
... confronted with its own uncanny mirror image and the self confronted with a mechanically iterable verbal signifier. Thus the essay begins with the premise that the inhuman is constituted through a subjection to—as Jacques Lacan might say—the itinerary of the signifier. But since this is a fate that could...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in a media culture where a network of people, things, and texts intermingle in commercial society. Working through the epistemology of possessive individualism, sentimental fiction tends to question whether individuals really own their feelings. The form of the novel mirrors this concern to challenge...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Emilio Sauri Abstract What might it mean to conceive of a work of art not simply as a mirror held up to society but as a means to visualize the abstract functions that make society look the way it does? And what can this tell us about the novel's social, political, and artistic potential today...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 403–421.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of access to authorial and characterological motivations, a structure that, furthermore, mirrors that of the modern novel. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Auerbach Erich . Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature . Trans. Trask Willard R...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 5–9.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., and the psyche. The Blakean vision of eternity in an hour and the world in a grain of sand underlies the heterotopia of the novel. The essay argues that the novel contains the global; that the world it mirrors is one of unity in disunity, of oneness in diversity, of constant motion and change. Prison is seen...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 May 2016
... by historically situated readerships to the land that becomes visible in the novels of their respective moments. By drawing this comparison, I want to suggest that the novel is not inherently any more heterotopic than the mirror but that this dimension of both phenomena depends on the eye of the reader/beholder...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 189–199.
Published: 01 November 2008
... mirrors’ at a fair during Independence celebrations . 1960 . Magnum Photos, New York. Tutuola , Amos . The Palm-Wine Drinkard . New York; Grove P, 1953 . Woolf , Virginia . “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.” 1924. Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf . Vol. 1 . New York: Harcourt, 1967...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 381–400.
Published: 01 November 2010
... exclusionary potential.
Those rhetorical forms and metaphorical constructions most closely associ-
ated with realist representation, such as Althusserian interpellation, Albertian
perspective, and metonymy—along with the devices that do their work, such as
mirrors and windows—“hail” the subject...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2017
... image, I think, for conveying what Boxall believes is the structural essence of the novel. According to Boxall, the novel has from the beginning always functioned according to a kind of dialectical movement: on the one hand, generating an intimate sense of voice (presence, the self, a clear mirror...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 166–170.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., 13). Not only were these thinkers aware of the importance of imitation as a cognitive mechanism, Lawtoo argues that their theories on the subject anticipate contemporary research in neuroscience on mirror neurons that came to widespread public attention in the 1990s. While the popular reception...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 325–328.
Published: 01 November 2007
... it will not validate you" (Read My
Desire 25).
Wyatt's argument is based on a Lacanian conception of ego formation. In Lacan's now
famous "mirror-phase," the child, usually held up by its mother, sees itself in the mirror.
This signals the end of infancy, the undifferentiated experience of the world...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., wholeness, singularity, or concreteness but by identity in the sense of likeness, similitude, and iteration among plural subjects. Green's interest in repeating the temporal moment is reflected in one of his key descriptive passages, an account of the mirrored private room reserved for Philip...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 217–235.
Published: 01 August 2017
... ). In this view, Fred is an inverted scapegoat, a kind of golden ass, presenting mirror images of the same aesthetic problems that scapegoats raise. Eliot's narrators do sometimes encourage readers to construe exemplary forms in their narratives. Yet it is typical of the British realist narrator, though...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 391–410.
Published: 01 November 2001
... that James relies on such an image here because the issue
he's addressing is the issue of sameness, the way in which individuals inevitably
recognize the sameness of their past and present selves. Given that (with their
alliterative names) Peter and Paul are meant to work as mirror images of one...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 166–175.
Published: 01 August 2018
... to the geometry of spheres and circles? Doesn't Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice cast modernity itself along the latitudes and longitudes of the commercial orb, the far-flung geography—Tripoli, Mexico, the Indies, England—of which the urb of Venice is both the mirror and the marketplace? Isn't the Dublin...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
...”
It is the same picture . . . [a]nd there is a bond between us and that humanity so far
away.
—Joseph Conrad, “The Congo Diary”
This title may appear slightly provocative. It mirrors what is probably one of the
most famous, most often quoted, and, above all, most...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 20–22.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to
Joseph Andrews also echoes Rabelaisian accounts of carnival. Social transgression
and genre upheaval, by mirroring each other, are the twin causes of the language
dynamics that Bakhtin named heteroglossia. Bergson’s essay “Laughter,” which
discusses the problem of “something mechanical grafted...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2018
...: “The figure mirrored by the text's descriptions and actively created by its withholdings—that of a man or woman in a room, thinking—is one for whom the process of reading involves a detailed consideration of the probabilities, possibilities, and constraints that structure, and for Trollope, produce the real...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... Stevenson , John Allen . “A Vampire in the Mirror: The Sexuality of Dracula.” PMLA 103 ( 1988 ): 139 –49. Stoker , Bram . Dracula . 1987. New York: Penguin, 1994 . Wicke , Jennifer . “Vampiric Writing: Dracula and Its Media.” ELH 59 ( 1992 ): 467 –93...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 181–199.
Published: 01 August 2004
... The resonance here and throughout is obviously from Lacan's famous essay about that
"imaginary" "splitting" that constitutes "subjectivity," "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the
Function of the 'I"' (1-7).
l3 On the narratological distinctions between "plot" and "story," see Chatman, Bal...
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