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A Modernist Education in Pandemics
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 489–493.
Published: 01 November 2021
...David James Works Cited Boyer Anne . The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness . London : Allen Lane , 2019 . Outka Elizabeth . “ Grievability, COVID-19, and the Modernists' Pandemic .” Modernism/Modernity 5 ( 2020 ): 1 < https://modernismmodernity.org/forums...
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Modernist Str(u/I)ctures of Feeling
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 306–309.
Published: 01 August 2013
... . New York : Perigee , 1980 . 70 – 78 . Nietzsche Friedrich . The Gay Science . Ed. Williams Bernard . Trans. Nauckhoff Josefine . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2001 . Modernist Str(u/i)ctures of Feeling
JONATHAN GREENBERG, Modernism, Satire...
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Modernist Literature and the New Celebrity Studies
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 332–335.
Published: 01 August 2013
....” PMLA 126 . 4 ( 2011 ): 900 – 911 . Modernist Literature and the New Celebrity Studies
JONATHAN GOLDMAN, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity (Austin: U of Texas P, 2011), pp.
204, cloth, $55.00.
Jonathan Goldman’s first book, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity...
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Things and Nothings: Henry Green and the Late Modernist Banal
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 May 2017
... with their luggage, order drinks, and lose and find various members of their party. In its attention to the bathetic quotidian, Party Going animates a range of late modernist anxieties about time, leisure, and subjective experience that manifest in the novel's fretful leveling of objects and experiences using...
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Modernist Low Vision: Visual Impairment and Weak Narrative in Conrad and Joyce
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 60–78.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., revealing in the process the centrality of disability to the antidevelopment plot as well as to modernist aesthetics more generally. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 Joseph Conrad James Joyce bildungsroman disability theory degeneration theory Nothing is more difficult than to know...
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Violent Ends, Modernist Means
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 313–316.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by—modernist writers. At the Violet Hour is that rare critical work that brings genuinely fresh insights to even the most well-known works and topics. The book examines violence between 1890 and 1940 across both time and conflicts, as a grim continuum that shifted both representation and language. Rather...
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The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Modernist Haunting
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 268–291.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Stephen Ross This article contends that contemporary modernist studies' break with the previous model of High Modernism uncannily repeated modernism's own declared break with the nineteenth century. A key marker of this repetition is the flurry of publications addressing modernism's relationship...
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Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity in Djuna Barnes
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Michael Davidson This essay investigates the idea of biofuturity within modernism, focusing specifically on the figure of male maternity in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood . Although the figure of the pregnant male occurs in ancient and classical literature, it surfaces significantly in modernist works...
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Global Lukács
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 366–372.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of Lukács's interconnected blind spots were modernist form and imperial history, this essay looks to some of the central concepts of The Theory of the Novel, The Historical Novel , and Studies in European Realism for a broader, twentieth-century, and global frame of reference. To that end, it builds on two...
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Mindless Modernism
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 116–132.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Joshua Gang What would modernist fiction look like if it were mindless and had no access to mental states? While modernism is often understood as a psychological turn inward, this article shows how introspective psychology competed against other psychological discourses—and how writers...
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Faulkner's Glitches
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that resembles both a formal experiment and a simple writerly failure. It then turns to the work of William Faulkner, whose novels Sanctuary and Absalom, Absalom! reveal a buried alliance between criticism's customary ways of understanding glitches and an older modernist aesthetics. In Absalom, Absalom...
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Conrad, Lawrence, and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 389–409.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Christopher McGowan Abstract This article considers Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love as modernist reworkings of the industrial novels of the mid‐nineteenth century, such as Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Conrad and Lawrence, the article...
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Remembering the Pleasant Bits: Nostalgia and the Legacies of Modernism
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 132–139.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Randall Stevenson Walter Benjamin's image of the backward-looking angel of history dates from 1944 but is also relevant to earlier parts of the twentieth century, especially after August 1914. Rebecca West's Return of the Soldier is paradigmatic in theme and form of a well-charted modernist...
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“Spanish Is a Language Tu”: Hemingway's Cubist Spanglish
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 224–242.
Published: 01 August 2015
...; it is a mode of interlingual writing that suspends the typical transaction of translation permanently between languages. Hemingway accomplishes this by using Spanish as a laboratory for his overlooked experiments in modernist mistranslation, which I trace through his development of cubist techniques...
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Structures of Irony: Curiosity and Fetishism in Late Imperial London
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 424–443.
Published: 01 November 2011
...George Micajah Phillips This essay challenges the critical commonplace that modernism's response to imperialism and metropolitan culture can be best explained in terms of irony alone by arguing that curiosity works as modernist irony's shadow dialectic. Writing during London's era of colonial...
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Dreiser's Stamping Room: Becoming Media in An American Tragedy
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 234–252.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Kate Marshall This essay makes the case for a reconsideration of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy within the history of the modernist novel and its medial legacies by attending to the complex relationship enacted throughout the text between material forms and structures of interiority...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in the process. James would crucially, if perhaps reluctantly, inaugurate acousmatic abstraction as a dare for future modernist writers to see with their ears. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 Henry James realism The American Théâtre Français narrative voice modernism European novel...
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The Ghost in the Account Book: Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 219–239.
Published: 01 August 2019
... unobtrusively immanent to realist novels of empire such as Mansfield Park and Great Expectations , surfaces to the diegetic level and becomes available for critical scrutiny in high modernist novels such as Heart of Darkness or Absalom, Absalom! Drawing from writings by Max Weber (on guarantees of calculability...
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Peripheral Urbanism, Imperial Maturity, and the Crisis of Development in Lao She's Rickshaw and Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Caitlin Vandertop Abstract The theory of combined and uneven development has provided a new interpretive framework for studies of the novel in recent years, opening up connections between the central premise that capitalism produces an “amalgam of archaic with more contemporary forms” and modernist...
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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
... of unoccupied rooms in Dickens's writing can in turn revitalize studies of the relationship between Victorian and modernist novels and theories of realism. This article concludes by turning to the Ramsays’ abandoned coastal home in To the Lighthouse , in which Woolf, like Dickens, links an interrogation...
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