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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 2016
... “obliterate” social cohesion or at least make its incoherence legible? This essay turns to Charles Dickens's Bleak House to think about the negative aspect of the novel's involvement in the horizon of legibility of social relations. It focuses on the novel's representation of mud—both as the abject material...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (2): 176–196.
Published: 01 August 2017
... road, and it serves to gauge the desperate plight of the creatures living on it and to unite them: “There [being] no drainage to carry off the wine, . . . not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
...:
London. Michalmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s
Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters
had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet
a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so...
Journal Article
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 529–532.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the sensible fabric of life, Woolf's verbal heterogeneity reconfigures consensual values of scale; material reality is a continuum encompassing atoms and stars, nerve fibers and tidal movement, discarded boots, traditional nursery rhymes, and the splatter of mud. Keats's engagement with the contentious...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (1): 35–55.
Published: 01 May 2017
... but “an object so startling that both Mrs. Pullet and Mrs. Tulliver gave a scream” (160). The narrative subsequently tracks back to account for the metamorphosis of “pink-and-white” Lucy into “startling object,” “with one side of her person, from her small foot to her bonnet-crown, wet and discoloured with mud...
FIGURES
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2018
... house of words, exposes “the fragility of the law” ( Kristeva, Powers 4 ). The abject in this sense is precisely existence without individuality, what Susan calls the “life of a thing,” the mud of generations: it “has only one quality of the object—that of being opposed to I ” (Kristeva, Powers 1...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (2): 253–274.
Published: 01 August 2013
... them. It
was Evans! But no mud was on him; no wounds; he was not changed. (68)
OUTKA | DEAD MEN, WALKING 263
Here linguistic composition has again become visible, taking on the fragments
of war yet becoming imperishable, enduring. Evans assumes...
Journal Article
Novel (2004) 37 (3): 326–351.
Published: 01 November 2004
... just as I had seen them-intense
and as iffor ever suspended in their expression. I had turned away from the
picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change,
light flickers, life Rows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or
sfones (All the natives...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., Hong
Kong mud on his ankles, is nevertheless outfitted with “shoes from Pennsylvania,
a silk tie made in Milan, and a briefcase full of Japanese and American gadgetry”
[82 Ghostwritten thematizes what Ulrich Beck has called “banal everyday global-
ization” (28)—the counterpart to the “banal...
Journal Article
Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., he explains his shift in emphasis from Tom to Sophia:
‘‘The character of Sophia Western, which I have transferred without a change from
mud-bespattered pages, dominates my drama as it really dominates the novel—a
type of female purity, so fresh, so wholesome, and so virginal that it imparts...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... one with tarmac, stone, dirt, water, mud. If you were to cut out ten square centimeters of it like you do with fields on school geography trips . . . you'd find so much to analyse, so many layers, just so much matter—that your study of it would branch out and become endless until, finally, you threw...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to heaven” (31). There, Ishmael and O interrupt a rape in progress and nearly get shot by young toughs with AK-47s. They play the part of benevolent strangers, lifting the teenage rape victim, Janet, out of the mud and, after taking her to the hospital, prevailing upon the nuns running her school to provide...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
... journey that it has taken. The novel of sentiment is a vehicle that comes with the figurative equivalent of mud splashed on its panels, the baggage strapped up behind, the repaired pin attaching a wheel, or the forgotten fragment of a letter amid the seat cushions. Despite contemporary critiques...
Journal Article
Novel (2000) 33 (2): 235–252.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., I wanted to write something
that celebrated the power of black survival and that confronted some of the
myths about pre-slavery Africa. These people were not living in mud huts like
savages; there were some very sophisticated cultures already in Africa" (Radio
Times, April 18-24, 4...
Journal Article
Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
... it reflects into your eyes the azure of the sky, sometimes the mud of the quagmires on the road” ( Stendhal 371 ). 7 “[M]y strongest effort is to . . . give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective; the outlines will sometimes...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the soldiers who chewed on the wet mud of Flanders Fields while sniffing the air and scanning the tree lines in a desperate attempt to avoid the next gas attack reengaged the liber naturae tradition is an interesting question. There is, of course, no clearer example of “second nature” than a battlefield...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and their clothes. On the hand that the smallest child brings to her mouth the light exposes what might be jam but was more likely mud. How the whole thing could have been brought off with the long exposures required in those days he cannot even guess” (52). For Rayment this photograph presents the primal scene...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
...: the sloping skirt. Both sentences turn in their final clauses,
gutter, dabbled with mud and slime” (341). Melville would also have been aware of the scandal
of Rufus W. Griswold’s 1850 edition of Poe’s works, an edition that was prefaced with a largely
inaccurate and unflattering...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (3): 406–423.
Published: 01 November 2013
...: Official Report of the Relief Operations (1928), the American Red Cross
provides some historical background to the contrary. It explains that sharecrop-
pers learned the technique of “mudding in” so that they could plant during floods
to avoid wasting time waiting for the floodwaters to recede (67...
Journal Article
Novel (2021) 54 (2): 248–269.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights” (9). Here, we find how a form of Heathcliff's name, “heath,” becomes embedded in the narrative's ecology; 1 the compound heath-cliff signifies the landscape on which...
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