...‐nominated Bewilderment (2021), an important turn‐of‐the‐millennium work by this MacArthur‐lauded novelist, Plowing the Dark (2000), remains his most strenuous venture in what this article calls the open‐circuit structure of his typical multi‐plot narratives. Scenes of secretly funded VR aesthetics...

... kaleidoscopic: a multi-authored assemblage of narratological, bibliometric, intellectual- historical, and literary-theoretical analyses of the novel's status at a dizzying range of times and places, punctuated by forays into film, short stories, and verse romances. What structures this loose, baggy...

..., following in the footsteps of Umberto Eco and Jürgen Habermas, I will aim to foreground Europe’s cosmopolitan heritage as foundational to a more complex and complicated sense of the present, which is multi-causal and multi-perspectival rather than issuing from a single moment of aggression...

... and behaviors dis- cussed in the essays here-cruelty, irritation, rudeness, multi-tasking, disgust, leave-taking, and the simple refusal to engage with another. These forms of affect and practice enable Ishiguro's protagonists to direct their attentions to the imag- ined needs of those far away, yet...

.... Foreman P. Gabrielle and Pitts Reginald H. New York : Penguin , 2009 . xxv – lv . Gerrity Sean . “ Freedom on the Move: Marronage in Martin Delany’s Blake; or, the Huts of America .” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 43 . 3 ( 2018 ): 1 – 18 . Gilroy...

... a multi-level lumbar laminectomy on an obese forty-four-year-old man, a gardener who worked in Hyde Park. He cut through four inches of subcutaneous fat before the vertebrae were exposed, and the man wobbled unhelpfully on the table whenever Perowne exerted downwards pressure to clip away...

... are presumed to have developed from multi- ple sources (hence, "polygenesis The emergence of these two systems not only enables a keen appreciation of historical change over the course of two centuries, but also fosters a chiasmus that is central to Tawil's project: namely, that where slavery was once...

....' Something akin to this criticism is at work, I want to suggest, in Stevens's own resistance to selecting and elevating his father, or Miss Kenton.* The ramifications of his resistance are particularly evident when Stevens charac- teristically "multi-tasks" in the course of servicing the needs...

... painting, and photography. Over the past decade his work has undertaken a sustained, multi- disciplinary (or transdisciplinary) reflection on the politics of aesthetics. This inter- vention has achieved nothing less than a reconfiguration of the relations between ideology and pedagogy, the formation...

.... English is, first and foremost, one of the many "codes" employed throughout the Recirercke, which is so concerned, as Gilles Deleuze points out, with secret signs and systems. Homosexuality, Jewishness, politics, friendship, cookery and art all operate their own multi-layered and frequently...

... of the subsequent Tales picks up the multi-stranded format, each makes use of some aspect of ephemeral popular culture, each contests a metropolitan or Anglicized view by way of an undercover subtext, either invisible or unintelligi- ble to non-Irish eyes. The Tales borrow the technique developed...

... the political and military turmoil that afflicted France during that period. Although the plot defies easy summary, the principal narrative relates the difficult relationship between two shepherds, Celadon and Astree. Astr6e suspects Celadon of infidelity and ban- ishes him from her presence; unable...

... of the novel we can see that the first response is framed within the political discourse proper to Hoftaller: it is realist, even cynical. The second answer is a defense of literary discourse itself, the nuances of which are lost when a single statement is substituted for the “heteroglot, multi-voiced, multi...

... of Bristol'. Over a century later, isn't it time for Bristolians to express their feelings about today's' multi-cultural society?" ELIZABETH KOWALESKI WALLACE I NARRATED SILENCES IN GREGORY AND DABYDEEN cisely because I believe we stand to learn much more than popular narratives currently make...

..., which supersedes the NorthtSouth di- chotomy.I0 In The Translafor, Scottish Rae says, "[o]urs is not a religion tied to a particular place" (179). Supra-national and multi-ethnic Islamic identity is emphasized in Minaref when Tamer, whose father is Sudanese, says, "[mly mother...

...)-the blacksmith joke was multi-directional: it engaged old stereotypes of Scottish roguery as well as newer Scottophobic modes of popular nationalism; it punned upon the road culture that sustained Gretna's marriage The cultural implications of the Act and of the older consensual marriage code...

... ‘‘Nineteen Thirty-Seven’’ mourns the death of its narrator’s mother in an inhumane women’s prison. The sheer pervasiveness of these themes engenders the sense of a multi- generational, deindividualized protagonist, elucidating how shared legacies of mis- fortune can foster communal solidarity...

... on this issue, leaves white owners in command of black labor, and leads to the death of the protagonist for betraying the revolution he instigated. Serpell's 2019 novel, by contrast, provides an intergenerational and multi-generic account of the Zambian nation-state that also singles out the Kariba Dam...

... disjunction . . . , multi-modal montage . . . , or self-reflexive pastiche of orality” (14), all of which Forter allows into his canon. What, then, happens in the early 2000s that encourages novelists to foreground subalternity, transnationalism, and a realist engagement with historical events? How did...

...: the novels do not endorse the Benhabibian aim of seeking "to take the standpoint of the other" (168). Instead, in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Forster's multi-faceted crossings-between Northern and Southern, male and female, Protestant and Catholic, heteronormative and queer, upper-class...