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The End of the City and the Coming of the Urban: Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 324–338.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jacob Soule Abstract Georges Perec's short experimental novella An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris documents, with inert fascination, everything that passes through the busy Parisian square of Place Saint-Sulpice over the course of several days, from pedestrians to the continuous stream...
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“Trading Places in Fancy”: Hawthorne’s Critique of Sympathetic Identification in the Blithedale Romance
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 244–262.
Published: 01 August 2003
... . "Trading Places in Fancy": Hawthorne's
critique of Sympathetic Identifcation in
The Blithedale Romance
FRANK CHRISTIANSON
1 am not sure that . . . the Blithedale Romance [is]not, strictly speaking, [a] novel
rather than [a]romance...
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Where in the World Did Kamala Markandaya Go?
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Primarily, this essay examines the literary consequences of placing nationhood and nationalism at the very center of the postcolonial literary critical framework that was collaboratively created from the 1980s onward by scholars from/in different parts of the globe to serve as an analytical tool for third...
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The Theo-political Origins of the English Marriage Plot
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...
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Envy and Victorian Fiction
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 297–303.
Published: 01 August 2009
...William A. Cohen Among the many elements that divert the nineteenth-century novel's plot and characters from achieving their ends—and thus keep such narratives moving—envy occupies a special place. Envy is so psychologically powerful that it often threatens not only to irretrievably derail...
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“The Freedom to See”: Social Relations and Aesthetic Form in The Golden Bowl
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 308–321.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Paul Stasi Abstract This article takes up The Golden Bowl in relation to neoliberalism, considered less as a distinct phase of capitalist accumulation than as an intensification of its long-standing internal tendencies. Taking place, as Edith Wharton put it, “in the void,” James's novel stages...
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The Meaning of Settler Realism: (De)Mystifying Frontiers in the Postcolonial Historical Novel
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 461–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to confront and to disavow these origins. How might this problem affect the aesthetics of the realist novel? This article argues that the historical novels produced in places like Australia and New Zealand constitute a distinctive variant of literary realism inflected by the ideological tensions of settler...
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Thresholds of the Novel: Realism, the Inhuman, the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee's Foe
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that attend upon this place. What might it mean, in fact, for Foe' s ending to cross the Novel's thresholds only to stage a total “blackout” of the realist novel's meaning-producing mechanism and the story of individual experience the genre has valorized? This article draws on Coetzee's unpublished notebooks...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Fabio L. Vericat Abstract This essay proposes to consider how The American (1875) is symptomatic of Henry James's elocutionary insecurities about the demands the European nineteenth-century novel placed on the authorial voice—crucially aggravated by the American stutter that accompanied the young...
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“This Dizzy Affair”: Quantum Measurement, Schrödinger's Cat, and Hammett's Falcon
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Hammett's noir version of San Francisco until Sam Spade attempts to find it in a particular place. Further, reading from a quantum perspective suggests that Casper Gutman does not really want to find the jewel-encrusted statuette, or one would have appeared more often. Drawing on the work of Niels Bohr...
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Mutant City: On Partial Transformations in Three Johannesburg Narratives
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... with emergent forms of life in spaces where ideological forces have ceded to material ones. The speculative mutations in these texts give body to various forms of emergent, unconceptualized, or fantastic subjectivities, homologous with but not reducible to the “real” mutations taking place in South African...
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The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Amazon
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Victoria Saramago Abstract The Amazonian region occupies a singular place in the fiction and nonfiction of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Author of paradigmatic novels on the Peruvian Amazon, Vargas Llosa nevertheless has repeatedly defended extensive exploitation of Amazonian natural...
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The Politics of Living Death in Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., as a politics of substitution—that is, when he takes a life, he leaves something in its place. Rebels do not simply disappear; they are killed and then given sycophantic zombie afterlives in the General's propaganda. In response to this politics of substitution, Farah explores a politics of mourning, which...
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Form and the Anticolonial Novel: William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... class that inherits Franco Moretti's novel of bourgeois subject formation with all the attendant problems and opportunities of traditional bourgeois realism, while seeking to replace the privileged place of irony in those texts with a partisan spirit of conviction. One consequence of this is a deeper...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... written in the first place, this article tracks how this same anticlimactic and nonrepresentational narrative mode is repeated throughout the novel. It suggests that these conspicuous absences serve as formal literary interventions that point toward the impossibility of thinking, sensing, and thereby...
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Ticket to a Museum: Reading Orhan Pamuk in Our Times
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the world of his novel with the material addition of a museum (a collection of the things depicted in the novel), an artifact also invented by himself. Understanding the circumstances in which the alliance between novel and museum takes place, through Pamuk's explanations but going beyond them—its...
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Contemporary Transnational Historical Fiction: Forging Solidarities in the Global South Novel
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to the end of colonialism and the Cold War—that global South theorists are addressing. It concludes by arguing for the value of defining the genre of the global South novel intrinsically, from the content and form of the work, rather than extrinsically, on the basis of the author's origin, the place...
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The Novel and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery: Domesticity and Slave Labor in Namık Kemal's İntibah
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the labor of enslaved women was indispensable. Placing Namık Kemal's İntibah in conversation with other novels contemporaneous with it, the article underscores the interlacement between the genre‐conscious crafting of novelistic writing in the nineteenth‐century Ottoman Empire and the ubiquitous presence...
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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
...Sookyoung Lee Abstract Novelistic sentences dramatically simplified in structure and contracted in length throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. This article places these changes within the longer process of grammatical “weakening” (the loss of inflection for regular order). Building on the linguist...
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Rancière’s Style
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 284–300.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., as Bruno Bosteels rightly notes, “displays a brilliant use of the free indirect style of speech.” Style regards the arrangement of peoples, places, and events into collectivities. In this essay I elaborate Rancière's political style of writing. I begin by tracing Rancière's debt to Karl Marx's critique...
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