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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 10–12.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alexander R. Galloway In her book Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing, philosopher Catherine Malabou tells a story about the historical end of reading and writing and their reinvention in a new form. The new mode is seen most vividly, suggests Malabou, in the cerebral plasticity of the brain...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 466–482.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Benjamin H. Ogden One of the most pressing problems posed by J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year is that of the novel as a genre: what it is and is not, how readers “create” texts and their meanings, how literary tradition and genre typologies are constructed and passed down, the plasticity...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 May 2015
... novel form around the attractions and reactions that organized social and psychological life in his city. Victorian sciences—particularly the work of George Henry Lewes and Charles Darwin—were turning to “net-work” to describe the plastic processes underpinning biological life. Dickens's fiction used...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2011
... the limitations and plasticity of the realist mode. I look specifically at moments of self-referentiality in social realist writing as well as in the repeated claims by writers themselves about the mimetic purpose of social realism. In this way, I show how literary realism in the colony lived the dual life...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 403–407.
Published: 01 August 2016
... by a striking tendency toward “identification” (34), “plasticity” (97), “adaptation” (128), “susceptibility to mimicking others” (165), and other mimetic faculties rooted in biology—we might wonder: is there not also a dangerous ethical vulnerability that emerges directly out of this plastic conception...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 452–471.
Published: 01 November 2020
... from a “knapsack in a library” to the “scarred plastic freezer bag, encrusted with barnacles” that washes up on a British Columbia beach several months after the tsunami ( 8 ). “It was pretty clear,” she explained to me, “that things were going to start washing up” (pers. comm.). Ozeki also followed...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Difference: The Questions of the Feminine in Philosophy . Trans. Shread Carolyn . Cambridge : Polity , 2011 . Malabou Catherine . Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity . Trans. Shread Carolyn . Cambridge : Polity , 2012 . Marx John . “ Alien Rule...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., if not very brains, are still “plastic.” Darnton
worries “about the loss of a certain kind of sustained reading” (Rich). Wolf docu-
ments a shift away from the “reading brain” and the emergence of a “digital” one.
Katherine Hayles cites a generational divide between two cognitive modes, hyper
and deep...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 May 2024
... underlies Brilmyer's argumentation. For instance, in her illustration of the plasticity of character in Middlemarch , she concludes that Eliot “reveals something about the nature of literary character, an inorganic yet still plastic material formation that, irrespective of time and place , attains form...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 138–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Chapter one focuses on the importance of the concept of plasticity for Eliot's Middlemarch ; chapter two explores the concept of impressions in Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such ; chapter three considers the relationship between race and accretion in Hardy's Sketch of Temperament ; and chapter...
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2012
... this task in modes his-
torical and interdisciplinary, philosophical and comparative, formal, affective, and
political, and they draw on varied canons, genres, and theoretical traditions. From
the “waywardness” of a “hermeneutics of susceptibility” (Cheng), the “regenera-
tive power” of “plastic...
Journal Article
Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 295–297.
Published: 01 November 2005
... up against not only the many shapes and hues
taken by human beings, but also the Lockean recognition that identity is itself unfixed, sub-
ject to environmental and social influence, capable of degeneration and development. Even
more disruptive than the plasticity of human identity is the play...
Journal Article
Novel (2021) 54 (3): 362–378.
Published: 01 November 2021
... surface, as in architecture, the plastic arts, and the human body. But the figure of the fold is also a metaphor for a theory of experience, with its own notions of subjectivity, epistemology, and ontology. It is precisely the inherent ambiguity of the concept, however, that constitutes its relevance...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... social order that cannot adequately express liberation, let alone what Mbembe calls the “future that would not be written in advance” of radical decoloniality (3)? Are there possibilities of innovation, plasticity, and decentering still available for how the form articulates an experience of liberation...
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (1): 19–22.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... It’s in relation to the
question of agency that I find Alexander Galloway’s account of Catherine Mala-
bou’s concept of “plastic reading” particularly intriguing, in that its object seems
to be the text, not the reader. Such reading reveals a structure (a trace, a fossil—a
ruin?) by the side...
Journal Article
Novel (2006) 39 (2): 284–287.
Published: 01 August 2006
..., and
marketplace chic failed to disrupt racial and nationalistic categories of difference, "in its
place," he insists, "a modernist internationalism emerged that was broadly committed to the
historical plasticity of race and to the ethical ideal of a pluralist universalism" (152). In
developing...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... on a storm drain cover (“one large men's black plastic work glove,” “one dense mat of oak pollen,” “one unblemished dead rat,” “one white plastic bottle cap,” “one smooth stick of wood”) from Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter ( 4 )—a book that is explicitly inspired by Latour's “vocabulary” and his attempt...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to the odd narrowness that—in spite of all its plasticity—seems
typical of adventure. A social narrowness, fundamentally. The whole idea had
been “a creation of the petty nobility of penniless knights” for whom “‘aventure’
was a way to survive—and possibly to marry an heiress,” writes Erich Köhler, who...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to the birth of the consumer society during the late eighteenth century and in part to its own formal plasticity, as Moretti tells the story, this peculiar narrative form was put in motion first in Europe and then through multiple variations as it expanded outward in successive waves along...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 41 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2007
... is routed through "a foundational scene of desire between women"
(168). In the final section of the book, Marcus discusses female marriage as a socially ac-
knowledged and "plastic" institution; countering claims that same-sex marriage was
unheard of or taboo in the period, she musters evidence...
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