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Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 1. The Prisoner's Dilemma. The matrix shows losses depending on whether the prisoners act collaboratively (do not betray each other) or individualistically (betray each other).
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 5–9.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o This essay looks at the novel as a globalectic heterotopia. It draws on a personal history of my writing the novel Devil on the Cross while a political prisoner in a maximum-security prison in Kenya in 1977–78. In explaining why I turned to the novel rather than any other genre...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 6–9.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and noncausal bargaining enters into all our cooperative relationships with each other. Such bargaining can be illuminated by game theory and, in particular, by the version of prisoner's dilemma known as “Newcomb's problem.” Newcomb's problem models some of our most important relationships with each other...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 547–565.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in the high‐tech America of “research and development” are pitted against the contrasting affect, emphatically detached in space and time, of savage sensory deprivation suffered by an Arab American US citizen as jihadist prisoner in Beirut. Only at the eleventh hour of plot time is this man's plight revealed...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 496–499.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Beth Connors-Manke SMITH CALEB , The Prison and the American Imagination ( New Haven : Yale UP , 2009 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $40.00 ; paperback, $25.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Social Death and Moral Enlightenment
caleb smith...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., or the penitentiary) or tell a single story (from the scaffold to the cell, from the plantation to the prison). Instead, he recovers the many practices that could be seen as enforcing justice in a period of rapid change. Before the Civil War, Ostrowski's work reminds us, new institutions like modern police forces...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
... authori-
ties (1, 2, 5). As ‘‘investigating officer Joll is charged to collect information about
barbarian tribesmen believed to be massing on the frontier for an attack on the
Empire (6). The town has no ‘‘facilities for prisoners since there is little crime, and
so a hut functioning as a ‘‘storeroom...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Figure 1. The Prisoner's Dilemma. The matrix shows losses depending on whether the prisoners act collaboratively (do not betray each other) or individualistically (betray each other). ...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Time” essay in which he elaborated on the “quality” of different temporal tensions, using a well-known prisoner's dilemma (166). I am reading both Lacan's initial analysis of this prisoner's dilemma and Badiou's interpretation of it as a way to think about Maggie's untimeliness and how it contributes...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 45–65.
Published: 01 August 2004
...." The narrator begins by
announcing that his sketch of Newgate Prison will differ from the "numerous
reports" that "numerous committees" have already made (235). These reports
rely on quantification and measurement, modes of description that the narrator
dismisses out of hand: "We took no notes," he...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 41–56.
Published: 01 May 2004
... transcription of history, not as a
part of the fictional narration: "the year the prisons opened. It was a season for
celebration; sports club delegations, mothers' unions and herded schoolchildren
stood around Nelson Mandela's old Soweto cottage queuing to embrace him,
while foreign diplomats...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 May 2016
... that novels not only can but do exactly that. Ngũgĩ's paper offers an Alice-through-the-looking-glass explanation of what it was like to write a novel that reflects on everyday cultural experience from the perspective of the unreal space of prison as well as how that society starts to resemble the prison...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2006
... and that are also tem-
porally and geographically different. Featuring narrators that include an African middle
man on the west coast of Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, a black American prisoner on
Death Row in the 1960s, and a Polish-Jewish woman who takes refuge in England after
World War 11...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 November 2012
... aesthetics depended upon reworking older narrative conven-
tions of cross-cultural encounter.
GoGwilt’s final chapter on Pramoedya returns to Pramoedya’s two-volume set of prison
notes, Nyani Sunyi Seorang Bisu, partially translated as The Mute’s Soliloquy mentioned above.
These memoirs illustrate...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 479–484.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in Newgate prison for kidnapping an heiress. A Letter from Sydney: The Principal Town of Australasia inaugurated a new period in the British understanding of its settler colonies. Imaginatively projecting himself onto a frontier he knew only from reading, Wakefield offered an original critique...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 May 2002
...; two stories from 1857, "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle
Apprentices" and "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"; and the final collaboration,
"No Thoroughfare" (1867). Throughout, Nayder deftly reads the literature as responsive
to contemporary social and political problems. The chapter...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
....
Indeed, when it speaks of a closet at all, the novel is really imagining a het-
erosexual one—the secret prisons and violations of respectable married life. The
entire text may be read as a sort of speculation from the world of repressed, taboo
sexuality about the terrors and the thrills of what...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 367–388.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in The Great Escape ,” a 1963 film about Allied prisoners of war trying to escape from a Nazi prison camp. “There'd be a chant of: ‘Rewind! Rewind!’” she continues, “until someone got the remote and we'd see the portion again, sometimes three, four times” (99). The appeal of this scene to Kathy and her...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 302–305.
Published: 01 August 2013
... experimental treatments of the war. The former was
based on Spark’s time in journalist Sefton Delmer’s somewhat sinister propaganda unit in
rural Bedfordshire, where German prisoners of war were employed or exploited to give
Britain’s “black” propaganda an authentically German touch (the term black...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 467–473.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as the boxed python. Unlike Oduche’s box, however, the office is
not fully sealed and cannot be. Through the window comes the singing of prison-
ers at work. Reading requires concentration, and Winterbottom shouts through
the window at the workers to shut up. We may be forgiven for wondering who...
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