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in Detachable Pockets and Letter Folds: Spatial Formalism and the Portable Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 5b. Detail of woman's pockets. Photograph by the author
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 393–399.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Kate Flint Photographers tend to come off very badly in contemporary fiction—portrayed as emotionally warped, as voyeurs, or as exploitative, they are seen not as artists but as operating a piece of technology. Their photographs are understood in referential rather than imaginative terms...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Daniel A. Novak “Photographic Fictions” argues that the discussion of fragmentation and totality, parts and wholes that photography provoked in the work of nineteenth-century writers and photographers is important for how we think of the novel form in the age of photography. Victorian writers...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Terri Weissman This article considers the relationship between lens-based (or photographic) realism and the narrative realism of literary texts with the aim of constructing a model of durational aesthetics that takes into account the simultaneous singularity and ongoingness of the photographic...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
... that the novelist Yuri Herrera and the photographer Alejandro Cartagena both aim to address within the context of Mexico, where neoliberalism's virtually seamless identification of development with the free market has precipitated the sense of a present from which the future has all but vanished. Rather than merely...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 464–468.
Published: 01 November 2013
... movement from 1839 to 1945 has claimed to be modeled
on the camera” (21). Ratifying or debunking the boasts regarding mimetic fidelity tied up
in these claims is precisely not Burrows’s project, however. Instead, novelistic invocations
of the photographic spur him to the much more original task...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 479–483.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Caroline Blinder Alix Beeston , In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2018 ), pp. 256 , cloth, $ 74.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Novel, Inc. 2019 In keeping with the title of Alix Beeston's ambitious book on modernist writing...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 434–452.
Published: 01 November 2001
... the
phrase "freezes in time" suggests the very medium that, I will argue, is precisely
what brings Janie's narrative into contact with history. This medium is, of course,
photography. Carby's metaphor, then, repeats the figures that constitute
Hurston's text, figures whose photographic provenance...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 356–357.
Published: 01 November 2004
... photographic prac-
tices and her obsession with visual memories (86). Chapter Three defends Vanessa Bell
against charges of photographic amateurism by suggesting that her "constant devotion to a
range of genres signals an attention to non-painterly experiences and viewpoints which
could...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... The chapter offers a substantial amount of evidence for this claim: Dreiser's friendship with photographer Alfred Stieglitz and, perhaps most compellingly, his curious decision to make a camera both the murder weapon and the proof that a murder has been committed. The prosecution's underhand twining...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to in Disability Theory as the “new realism of the body” ( 25 ). Pain, a decisive parameter of Sieber's new realism, is addressed in Slow Man in no uncertain terms: “ Pain is nothing , he tells himself, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 May 2011
... compares Daniel Deronda to Francis
Galton’s composite photographs of “model Jews” to show that the novelist’s strategy of
making Deronda conform to a disembodied ideal Jewish type was not a representational
failure but a radical way of achieving a greater realism than particularized description...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Billy
the Kid as an American icon with Ondaatje’s own poetry, prose, and photographs,
which disperse constructions of the “Wild West” beyond the United States. The
form of Collected Works is thus remarkably unclassifiable. It is told from both an
omniscient perspective and Billy’s own, taking us...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 93–99.
Published: 01 May 2010
... narratives of the twentieth
century.
Richard Altick tells the story in his engrossing book The Scholar Adventurers. Dur-
ing World War II, aerial photographic interpreters had experimented with opti-
cal shortcuts for evaluating possible targets, monitoring enemy troop and supply
movements...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 323–326.
Published: 01 August 2023
... such passages of robust analysis, Falkoff convincingly demonstrates the significance of the hoard for literary and cultural studies. On occasion, however, Possessed is prone to cataloging examples without granting each one this same level of analysis. Particularly in the sections on photographic...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...” did not become current until the late 1960s ( Allen and Thompson). 5 As disjunctive as these anachronisms are, however, they are as nothing compared to another notable feature of Mumbo Jumbo —namely, the twenty-two images, most of them photographic, that punctuate the novel, not so much...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 411–433.
Published: 01 November 2001
... is the novel's true plot. In the third and final section, I
consider the relationship of The Golden Bowl to the photographs by Alvin
Langdon Coburn which illustrated the New York edition of the novel and which
James discusses in the preface to that edition. His explanation of the difference
between...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
... as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 . Durham : Duke UP , 2012 . Eliot George . “ Natural History of German Life .” 1856 . George Eliot: Selected Critical Writings . Ed. Ashton Rosemary . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2000 . 260 – 96 . Elliott Jane...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of Muniz's Action Photo, after Hans Namuth (1997), in which dribbled chocolate—in a kind of visual onomatopoeia—reproduces the image in Namuth's photograph of Jackson Pollack at work famously making his action art. Respini's description of Muniz as “one of the smartest and funniest artists that [she has...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 319–323.
Published: 01 November 2002
... recovery by employing the cogent strategy of linking material and literary texts.
In the chapter on Louise Erdrich, she links Drex Brooks's 1991 photograph of the Mystic
Massacre Site in Mystic, Connecticut with Tracks and Bingo Palace. The photograph shows
amodern American town, with shiny cars...
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