... readings of late modernist revivals of local pageant plays, and of temporality in the later Eliot. The first explores samplings of the pageant form ranging from John Cowper Powys's A Glostonbury Romance to Forster's Abinger Pageant NOVEL I SPRING 2006 and England's Pleasant hnd...

... on everything from Loïe Fuller's physicality to Steiglitz's selection process for the pages of Camera Work . But Rasula gets us to these more familiar sites of modernist invention by way of the vogue for elaborate and at times preposterous civic pageants in the first decades of the twentieth century. While...

... is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant” ( Hulme ). In her view, history is a village pageant with familiar figures dressed in funny clothes. This is the view of history, Lukács claims, that was swept aside by the French Revolution. The vast scale of the subsequent...

..., in June 1939, at a time when the encroaching violence of World War II and imminent collapse of the British Empire is in the air. During the course of this day, a pageant play is presented at a country house in England; the novel renders to its readers the play in its entirety, framed and interrupted...

... at his most intellectually and politically interesting at moments when he appears most like a self-parody or a willing instrument of British internal imperialism. In Duncan’s hands, for example, the infamous pageant that Scott coordinated for George IV’s state visit to Scotland in 1822 did...

... Trobe’s pageant in Between the Acts. Bulson’s brief account of the London of Mrs Dalloway is so scintillating and suggestive that one cannot help wish- ing that it had been given more extensive treatment and compared with Joyce’s Dublin in greater detail. Another partial chapter, appendix...

... at once and therefore feature prominently in the new world. They also have an uncanny stay- ing power: a power to return after dismemberment, near death, and the like that allows for the repetitive and ritualized staging of pageants of the problematic of sovereignty. This capacity to linger...

... selves in the styles they purchased and thereafter donned late at night for their own trancelike promenades on city streets. Lucile’s pageants also worked in another way that further recalls the seduc- tions of Dracula and Svengali and the wide appeal of these novels. For the enter- prising Duff...

... grief had a mask that smiled, and his sor- row wore gay raiment. Behind the bright and quickly-changing pageant of the stage, he saw himself, as one sees one’s image in a fantastic glass. The very words that came to the actors’ lips were wrung out of his pain. Their false tears were of his...

..., Chandrapore's spatial order makes encountering the in- digenous population not simply a social but a perceptual challenge. Adela senses as much when considering how marriage to Ronny and her inevitable transfor- mation into a memsahib would alter her view of India: "Colour would remain-the pageant...

.... Kapuscinski , Ryszard . The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life . Trans. Klara Glowczweska. London: Penguin, 2001 . Kruger , Loren . The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics since 1910 . London: Routledge, 1999 . Losambe , Lokangaka . “Carnival as an Embedded Narrative...

... the historical novel developed in Quebec. © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited “Les Anglo-Canadiens et notre langue.” Le nouveau monde 24 Aug. 1880 : 2 . Arata Stephen . “Scott's Pageants: The Example of Kenilworth.” Studies in Romanticism 40 . 1...

... that passively register their place within the power structures of capitalist development and actively expose the failures of modernization through a pageant of deprivation. Reconciling macroeconomic conditions to their localized consequences, modernists like Hamsun and Beckett invest the body with a peculiar...

... description of what happens in it. Franzen notes that “[t]here is very little story to speak of beyond the pageant, the scripted performance, of the eponymous event” (a festival marking the release of a John Henry postage stamp) and refers to “the book's essentially static structure.” Perhaps contradictorily...

... to "mediascapes," Coover imaginatively fulfills their logic with the spectacle of Nixon choosing to take Pat to a Death Pageant in Times Square rather than to a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Here, historic deaths, such as those of the Rosenbergs, become part of an entertainment that must...