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.... For me there is no question that shifts in novelistic form are enabled by (and constitutive of) specific historical conjunctures, understood within a notion of contemporaneous historical formations. In order to understand what has made possible certain novelistic forms that are either dominant...

...David Sergeant Abstract This essay examines the relationship between novelistic form and a historical moment shaped by new technologies in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon (2018). In both, the novel form is itself positioned as a major counterforce against...

... delivered a complex narrative that, far from legitimating a united Germany, demanded a long historical perspective on the end of the Cold War. Ein weites Feld represents a conscious attempt to use novelistic form as a kind of cultural politics, deployed against both a resurgent German nationalism and those...

... in its narrative. The importance of Jamesian tact extends, I argue, to current studies of literary character and novelistic form, where a reading of James can help critics to develop theories of the novel that place ethics at the center of formalist criticism. Such repositioning can help us get a clearer...

... here that Rhys's novelistic form works as a technology of national representation to refute techniques of national quantification that would exclude or oversimplify imperial history or colonial subjectivity; more broadly, Rhys's novel exposes the limits of national analyses that rest upon territorial...

... suggested that novelistic form belied the unknowability of mental states. To Beckett, the novel's ability to know other minds was itself fictional; the representation of character minds, he contended, should be subjected to the same psychological laws as real people. Beckett's early writings, then, ask us...

... of the book for our ideas of novelistic form, and in particular for what Elaine Freedgood has called the “diegetic illusion”: a way of conceptualizing texts as though they were tightly bound books, which understands novels as the containers for enclosed, bounded worlds. To trace these implications is to see...

... temporality and novelistic temporality is parabasis, the punctual interruption of the distinction between the time of narration and the time of the narrative. Building on Samuel Floyd's theorization of jazz temporality, I limn the outlines of jazz's distinct form of parabasis and use de Man's theorization...

... . Inge W. R. Modernism in Literature . London : English Association , 1937 . Keynes John Maynard . The End of Laissez-Faire . London : Hogarth , 1926 . Levenson Michael . Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf...

... Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields offer, through their coinage racecraft , one of the most suggestive frameworks for thinking about the new ways that novelistic form engages with prevailing modes of racial reference in political and popular discourse. The point of departure...

...Ellen Rooney Rooney's essay addresses the question of novel reading and novel form in feminist literary critique and recent debates on reading by way of Sianne Ngai's work on the interesting and its intersection with the novelistic and with a contemporary figure of feminist protest: the pussy hat...

... of nineteenth-century Irish novels often emphasize the importance of realism by focusing on what Irish novels are not: George Eliot's Middlemarch. As a result, these accounts tend to focus on what these novels fail to do rather than what they accomplish—how they depart from more studied novelistic forms...

... virtues bound to archaic novelistic forms. Perhaps, as Jona- than Arac said, “[t]his will kill that” after all? Another account of the work of form is possible. Marjorie Levinson’s question “What Is New Formalism?” is in its own way rhetorical. But despite its blunt inter- rogative, Levinson...

... 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 eighteenth-century novel Jane Austen plot novelistic form [T]here was something in the name, in the idea of Mr. Frank Churchill, which always interested her. —Jane Austen Never, for example, do I shave without laughing, so stupid does it seem...

... and gustatory appetite, between the marriage plot that gives the nineteenth-century novelistic social its privileged form and what I call “the food plot.” And it is Jane Austen, I argue, who made this dichotomy central to the way we read. Situating Austen's fiction in relation to Malthusian political economy...

... between literature and science, their fates bearing the mark of Middlemarch 's concern to maintain the specificity of the novelistic even in its proximity to the sociological. With this in mind, we will see how the realist novel's project of self-differentiation—its claims to offer forms of insight...

... workers ‘‘responded to hunger by forming a nation- wide movement around a political programme instead of by more traditional means of protest like food rioting, arson, begging, poaching, or praying’’ (Early Chartists 12). FREEDGOOD THE NOVELIST AND HER POOR...

... counterpose conventional modes of novelistic figuration against the historical and social developments of actual speech figures. Alongside brief discussions of The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and Crane's shorter fiction, this essay traces in detail the figurative process of The Monster (1898). Published just...

... stands in need of critical and methodological revision. Moving beyond a notion of translation as interlinguistic and intertextual transposition, it explores the novelist's canon in light of the emergent concept of “cultural translation.” In this perspective, the essay examines such categories...

...Scott Selisker This article describes how the novelist David Mitchell employs the “ topos of the cult,” a set of conventions that describe a mental state of unfreedom, in the novels Ghostwritten (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2004). This figuration of an unfree form of society—characterized by a group's...