.... Butler , Octavia . Parable of the Sower . New York: Warner, 1995 . Davis , Mike . City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles . New York: Vintage, 1990 . Davis , Mike . Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster . New York: Vintage, 1998 . Dubey...

... do, in the historical gap between our secular age and the late Puritan age of Defoe. Next, the essay finds the fullest expression of Defoe's procedures as a novelist in the parable of the atheists at the end of Serious Reflections , rather than in the prefaces that begin the three Crusoe books...

..., as treasure maps for the whole phenomenon, two acutely comic parables of modern reading proffered, exactly half a century apart, in the pages of the Tatler and Tristram Shandy . © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin...

... a firm grip on the historical referent of American chattel slavery. Focusing on Kindred, Wild Seed , and Parable of the Sower , which engage most directly with the history of American slavery, this essay argues that Butler's narratives of enslavement significantly diverge from the genre of the fantastic...

... around the distinction between a single ewe and a collective flock: more precisely, about the special value of a ewe that is—outrageously—individuated and treated as a human member of the family. I refer to 2 Samuel 12, which contains a parable about the abuse of power offered by the prophet...

... to reinstate the primacy of the historical and to enforce its moral/legal valence. As an example of such a gesture, I turn to critical responses to Cathy Caruth’s reading of the parable of Tancred and Clorinda, which opens her seminal work in trauma theory, Unclaimed Experience.5 For Caruth...

... that emphasized in Pepetela's title. The fundamental figure of this allegory returns us unexpectedly to the theme of music, in a trio of parables that appears initially to reproduce once again the tragic narrative sketched above. In the first of these parables, Anibal describes a dance where he met...

..., the importance of this transfer to The Four-Gated City is reflected by the fact that its premier example also supplies the novel with its title via a fabular novella written by one of the characters. This “parable” or “blueprint” describes a city blending part and whole through a geometrically harmonious...

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.... New York: HarperCollins, 2003 . ———. Las películas de mi vida . New York: Rayo, 2003 . Hernández , Rita Indiana . La estrategia de Chochueca . Santo Domingo: RIANN, 1999 . Massumi , Brian . Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation . Durham: Duke UP, 2002...

... as allegories of New Deal liberalism that echo the literary ambitions and attitudes of its authors, then Smith reads these texts as parables of working-class dil-5, engaging the central aspirations and anxieties of the genre's readers. Drawing on letters to the pulps, editorials, advertisements...

... is startling, reads at times as a parable on the difficulty of publishing on “minor” literatures, provokes more questions than it answers, and frustrates (this reader's) historicist and materialist expectations, but it is never entirely expected or easy to dismiss. ...

... hand, an individual site of origin that offers an intensely subjective sense of time and, on the other, an experience more broadly defined, a parable of power and violation. Cole sees this very tension as lying at the heart of modernist literary depictions of violence, which can be at once intensely...

... to the concerns and sufferings and dispossession of white male characters. "The Bear" is a parable of the failure of white male selfhood, an identity that had traditionally been defined through possession, through patriarchal power exer- cised over women, heirs, owned things, and in particular owned...

... must grapple with the indissoluble entanglement of the beauty of her mother's jewels and the conditions of their production. Reading from Eliot's reflection on form as the bivalve shell and the house on the hill to the parable “from which no meaning is detachable, the form that is the meaning,” Leckie...

... Three Go Back (1932), George Stewart's Earth Abides (1949), and Jean Hegland's Into the Forest (1996). Chapter 3 examines the “survivalist anthropology” of Octavia Butler's Parable novels (1993–98) and Whitehead's Zone One (2011). This selection of texts is the result of Payne's decision...

... informs Simón (178). David's reading is allegorical in that it treats the text not as an account of how people lived in a certain time and place but as a parable of embodied vulnerability. In that sense, Don Quixote inspires in him a form of animal faith, a belief in material realities of which he can...

... with it. Indeed, if we follow Hart in perceiving the Ibis trilogy as a kind of parable of globalization, then we can begin to understand a little better the contemporary reality of ever more intensifying global economic interconnection coinciding with the proliferation of borders and the rise, rather than...

... is not treated as dismissively as it has been by those keen to see it as socially elitist or simply an exercise in neuro-aesthetics. Neuman effectively combats derogatory characterizations of McEwan as a righteous rationalist penning a parable of war, pointing out that such interpretations rely on “causal claims...

...- cussion is richly accompanied by reproductions of the paintings.) Because Balzac’s divided feelings about Dutch painting seem never to have been resolved, Yeazell’s discussion of his work and the related images might be read as a parable or pilot case about rifts in a wider 154 novel...