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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
... or restricting the kinds of emotions students experience, the reintegration of these novels into the twentieth-century classroom in fact signals a further broadening of the school's emotional palate. Battered corpses and rat feces may continue to remain outside the scope of the high school curriculum...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 6–9.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the situations in which narratives occur and the topics that narratives take
as their themes.
The setup for prisoner’s dilemma is this: if I rat out my partner in crime, who
is now, even now, being interrogated separately from me, I’ll go scot-free if she
denies everything, and she’ll get twenty years...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... reenactment in Remainder and one describing the objects found 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...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of real pos-
sibilities can be harmlessly tested, as if those lovable but doomed characters (Jane
Eyre, Holden Caufield, Don Quixote) were expendable laboratory rats whose whis-
kers and lifespan could be measured for comparison’s sake. Novels, committed
as they are to showing events unfolding...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., the same year her first novel, Corregidora , appeared to both acclaim and controversy, followed by a second, Eva's Man , in 1976 and White Rat , a collection of short stories, in 1977. Morrison and Walker followed up their impressive debut novels with other compelling, award-winning fictions. Along...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 August 2020
... protagonist one better. Observing something like Erving Goffman's principle that “disengagement” can actually amount to a form of political engagement, some of these characters “turn away” decisively from the rat race. To survive, they reject competition and offer themselves as necessary parts of eccentric...
Journal Article
Novel (2020) 53 (3): 495–500.
Published: 01 November 2020
... denouement as his tormentor is about to release the starving rats on to his face: “Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia!” (74–75, 90). Of course, these are two contrasting kinds of events. On one hand there is the saturnalia of the cinema, where the crowd greets the horrific massacre with unrestrained hilarity...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., for example, in Freud's analysis of the Rat Man's neuroses he uncovers a pattern in
whlch the patient has irresolvable economic problems in his relations with men: the Rat Man's
ELSIE MICHIE I THE WEALTH EFFECT IN AUSTEN
The difference, however, between eighteenth...
Journal Article
Novel (2018) 51 (2): 210–225.
Published: 01 August 2018
... must pursue tremendously important ends through inexpedient means—that contestants will play out their real lives in a fabricated world, like lab rats running a maze. Yet because these contestants are playing for their lives, this form of power over others specifically requires that subordinated...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 193–210.
Published: 01 November 2002
...,
and so on" ("Constructing Normalcy" 22). Reversing this normative paradigm,
Wideman renders the main character Reuben as an African American male
whose physical appearance resembles that of a hunchbacked, rat-faced dwarf.
Reuben professes to practice law from a rundown trailer parked on a trash...
Journal Article
Novel (2000) 33 (2): 235–252.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., to the side of the Trade,
like a rat on a hemp rope" (5-6). He offers marriage to Frances Scott, spinster
niece to Lord Scott, as a business move: he plans to have Frances teach and train
his slaves as house servants, thereby making them into even more profitable
commodities. Besides, he hopes...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 211–230.
Published: 01 November 2002
... furious. They swallowed baking soda, the morning after, to calm
the stomach violence caused by-the bounty, the reckless generosity on display at
124. Whispered to each other in the yards about fat rats, doom and uncalled-for
pride. (137)
The perceived class difference acts as a wedge...
Journal Article
Novel (2014) 47 (3): 383–402.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the town of its rats by luring them to their death
with his enchanting art, lures the children away as well when the town refuses to compensate
him. Interestingly, the oral tale first found its way into the print source Browning most likely
used ‘‘at the period when the printing press...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in the way they accelerate the perfectly
natural progression from corpse to food. The rat that Jo and Lady Dedlock spot
diving into the graves only cements this connection between decomposition and
consumption, as does Krook’s omnivorous cat, which, as Robert Lougy points out,
seems intent on making...
Journal Article
Novel (2023) 56 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 August 2023
... in the Novels of George Sand . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2016 . Molière . Œuvres complètes . Vol. 1 . Ed. Rat Maurice . Paris : Gallimard , 1951 . Musset Alfred de . Poésies complètes . Ed. Allem Maurice . Paris : Gallimard , 1957 . Nussbaum Martha . Sex and Social...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... 3 The novel names “Midnight Ravers,” “Revolution,” “Get Up Stand Up,” “Small Axe,” “Rat Race,” “Johnny Was a Good Man,” “Them Belly Full,” “Natural Mystic,” “Crazy Baldhead,” “Concrete Jungle.” 4 Names include Roberta Flack, Sly Stone, Boney M, “Ma Baker,” ABBA, Tony Orlando and Dawn...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
... anything save that rats are busy and wood dry is childish. These old houses are only brick and wood, soaked in human sweat, grained with human dirt. (124) Did the strokes reach the furze bush, or did the thorn tree hear them? (182) To address the problem of narrating someone who...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 377–405.
Published: 01 November 2000
... rent of eight dollars per week from the
Thomas family for one unventilated, rat-infested room in which four people eat
and sleep?" (302).
Paul Gilroy has described Wright's work as an engagement with the "tension
between the claims of racial particularity on one side and the appeal of those...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 165–192.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., though an idle, thoughtless, rat-
tling Rascal, was no-body's Enemy but his own" (4.5.165). She also discerns,
when no one else can so early in the novel, "that Master Blifil, though a prudent,
For cther considerations of "generosity" and sexuality in Torn Jones, see Brissenden 88; Golden...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the wretchedness of poverty, the rats and numerous family members packed into a tiny tenement: “A family of laborers and domestic servants. There was little air in that house, and not much affection” (28). Violence is the pervasive undercurrent in Philadelphia and much of it intra-racial: “Violence...
