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Typicality in the Novel and Novel Theory
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 444–462.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the boundaries between narrative theory and novel theory, I'd like to take her argument as a point of departure. Citing Henry Fielding's claim to represent not individuals but species of men, Gallagher argues, “The founding claim of the [novel] form . . . was the insistence that the referent of the text...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2010
... idea of the collection The Novel : “to make the literary field longer, larger, and deeper”—historically longer, geographically larger, and morphologically deeper than those few classics of nineteenth-century Western European “realism” that have dominated the recent theory of the novel (and my own work...
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The Edges of Fiction: Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and the Birth of Novel Theory
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Chloë Kitzinger Abstract This article argues that the early twentieth-century Dostoevsky criticism of Russian Symbolist thinkers, roughly contemporaneous with Henry James's New York Edition prefaces, laid the foundation for an alternative line of novel theory, engaged not with the novel's claim...
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The Prosaics of Weak Grammar: Novel Theory at the Crossroads of Linguistic Transformation
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
... with the rupture of totality, a theory of language as the manifestation of collective praxis presents a strange conundrum: individual novels must register both collective alienation and collective conveyance, expressing the former while the latter is at work. The Sentence is hierarchical: it implies...
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View articletitled, The Prosaics of Weak Grammar: <span class="search-highlight">Novel</span> <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span> at the Crossroads of Linguistic Transformation
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Novel Theory for Homo Sapiens
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 297–301.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Ivan Kreilkamp JACKSON TONY E. , The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2009 ), pp. 234 , cloth, $55.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Novel Theory for Homo Sapiens...
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Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the gay novel. Deploying novel theory and genre theory, this article argues that Dancer indicates how gayness transforms the novel and how the novel enables the lived experience of gay identity. Dancer , and the gay novel generally, complicate novel theory's assumption that the genre always privileges...
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History's Happy Ending: Bare Theory and the Novel
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 362–373.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Vaughn Rasberry Abstract Reading British writer Francis Spufford's 2008 novel Red Plenty , a fictionalized account of life in the Soviet Union during the early Khrushchev years, this essay defends a bare theory of race against what it calls a novelistic theory of race. Whereas the latter—powerfully...
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From the Papers of a Formalist Critic: Kierkegaard's Theory of the Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 244–261.
Published: 01 August 2024
... turns to a study of the formal features of the novel to distinguish what—and what does not—make novelistic characters believable and come to life. From here, the article proposes that Kierkegaard's theory of the novel is a theory that equates the novel with its most identifiable characteristic...
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What Kind of History Does a Theory of the Novel Require?
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 190–195.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jonathan Arac Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel locates the novel at a particular juncture within the history of Western spirit but not in relation to any specific social, political, or economic history. Mikhail Bakhtin, influenced by Lukács and also by Friedrich Schlegel's theorization...
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“Very Abstract and Terribly Concrete”: Capitalism and The Theory of the Novel
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 311–317.
Published: 01 August 2009
...David Cunningham For Georg Lukács in his Theory of the Novel , if the abstraction inherent in the act of theorization itself is demanded in some way by the novel form, it is because in “the created reality” of the latter “totality can be systematized only in abstract terms.” Yet equally the novel...
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Unreadable Novels: Toward a Theory of Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Fiction
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 129–146.
Published: 01 November 2005
...THOMAS DIPIERO Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Adam , Antoine . Histoire de la littérature française au XVIIè siècle . 5 vols . Paris: Domat, 1948 . Bannister , Mark . Privileged Mortals: The French Heroic Novel, 1630–1660 . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983...
View articletitled, Unreadable <span class="search-highlight">Novels</span>: Toward a <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span> of Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Fiction
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 187–195.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of Literature ), his work on pedagogy and aesthetics, and the literature of novel theory in the twentieth century, including the work of Georg Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin. Rancière's insistence upon the “democratic” quality of the novel form presents a quandary for many readers, due to his reluctance to speak...
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Reading the Book of the World: Epic Representation in the Age of Our Geophysical Agency
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Tobias Boes Literary theory for the past century has been dominated by the assumption that the novel is a genre that responds to the feeling of “transcendental homelessness” that is both described and partially caused by transcendental philosophy. Central to this assumption is the idea that we can...
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Transnationalism and the Novel: A Call for Periodization
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 November 2009
... that sets it apart from a premodern praxis of transmission—a historical juncture that has been occluded by novel theory. The novel was not always transnational, but its emergence as a modern genre depended on it. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined...
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Making Meaning Meaningful: Intertextuality and Identification in Never Let Me Go and Daniel Deronda
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 367–388.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., embodies a type that the most influential current of novel theory has made difficult to credit, perhaps even to recognize: the reverse quixote , a character who ostentatiously resists conflating literature and life or viewing the world and experience through the lens of literature—but who would benefit...
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On the Protocols of Victorian Citation
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., in miniature, the affective processes involved in the work as a whole. It is intended as a microcosm of the temporal workings of long narrative. Rather than offering the “see, it works this way” epistemology of close reading, it functions in Victorian reviewing and novel theory as “see, it feels this way...
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Feminists Reading Novels, Now, and Again, and Again
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 441–451.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Sedgwick, Marcus and Best, Swartz and Kamuf want us to see. Ngai's view of novelistic form confirms novel theory's familiar story. But her account of the interesting and its link to the unfolding of novel form as that which takes place in the space of public discourse, where those “in the know” speak most...
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Global Lukács
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 366–372.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Jed Esty Lukácsian narrative theory remains influential in literary studies despite the fact that many of its principles and conclusions seem specific to novel production within the industrializing heartland of the nineteenth-century European nation-state. Starting with the premise that two...
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Carl Schmitt in Outer Space: On Cixin Liu's “Dark Forest”
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
... for “cosmic sociology.” This theory posits a necessary, inescapable hostility between different groups of organized life as the fundamental political fact of the cosmos. Tracking this line of thinking as it develops through the series, I argue that Liu's novels provide a trenchant platform for exploring...
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On Voice
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 281–306.
Published: 01 November 2000
.... 1973 . Lukács , Georg . The Theory of the Novel . Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971 . Mailer , Norman . The Executioner’s Song . New York: Warner Books, 1980 . Moretti , Franco . The Way of the World: The “Bildungsroman” in European Culture . New York...
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