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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 November 2004
... of Illinois P, 1976 . Glazener , Nancy . Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850–1910 . New Americanists. Durham: Duke UP, 1997 . Henry , Thomas Millard . “Old School of Negro ‘Critics’ Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar.” The Messenger Reader . Ed. Sondra Kathryn...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of the imagination, literary critics sought to emphasize the palimpsestic nature of text by pointing to the unsayable and the indeterminate, and they devalued that which appeared mimetic, no matter what the text itself looked like. I explore the question of genre or narrative mode with special attention to realism...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 239–244.
Published: 01 August 2009
... Petro's puppet show in Don Quixote demonstrate the inseparability of romance and realism; realism too depends on the pleasures of enchantment, a transformation of the real that depends on the same effects the novel critiques in its moments of demystification. If the Quixote is modern, it is not because...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 26–41.
Published: 01 May 2002
... . Mansfield Park . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 . Barthes , Roland . “The Reality Effect.” The Rustle of Language . Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1989 . 141 –48. Becker , George J. , ed. Documents of Modern Literary Realism . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
...RACHEL COLE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Agamben , Giorgio . Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy . Ed. and trans. Agamben , Giorgio . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999 . Barrish , Philip . American Literary Realism, Critical Theory...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Srdjan Smajić This essay argues that the relationship between realism and supernaturalism in realist novels is more complicated—and more symbiotic—than critics generally acknowledge. Taking Walter Scott's Waverley , George Eliot's Silas Marner , and Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre as representative...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 378–381.
Published: 01 November 2008
...MICHAEL SAYEAU AMANDA CLAYBAUGH, The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), pp. 264, cloth, $45.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Realism, Reform, and the Transatlantic Novel
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 381–400.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., 1995 . Mitchell , Judith . “Hardy's Female Reader.” The Sense of Sex . Ed. R. Higonnet Margaret. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1993 . 172 –87. Roberts , John . “Realism, Modernism, and Photography.” Ed. Matthew Beaumont. Adventures in Realism . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007 . 158...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Ulka Anjaria This essay moves away from accounts of social realism, which privilege its political aims over its aesthetic innovations. I argue that social realism written under colonialism was part of a larger intellectual project to rethink the desirability and content of nationalism by testing...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Jay Clayton NOVAK DANIEL A. , Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2008 ), pp. 250 , cloth, $93.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Work Cited Smith Roberta . “The Pastime of Victorian Cutups.” New...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
... for ecocriticism, which has often privileged immersive experience and a relatively simplistic view of the referentiality of language, particularly realism, known as “ecomimesis.” Reading Charles Dickens's Bleak House alongside the artificial climates contained in Victorian glasshouses, this article argues...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 426–435.
Published: 01 November 2017
... differences is central to the moral economy of mid-nineteenth-century realism. To live inside a liberal dispensation that takes its realist fictions seriously means recognizing the work that characters like Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations (and persons like ourselves) put into stories about our own...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a profound admiration for Jaffe's willingness to go straight into the potentially recursive loop of realism and to give us a new picture of its driving mechanisms and the investments both our culture at large and the culture of contemporary literary criticism continue to make in this distinction. Jaffe shows...
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Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics: Alterity and Transpositioning in Murakami Haruki's Fractal Realism
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 409–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with other world systems become the sites of dramatic action and ethical transformation. In essence, Murakami presents us not with single verisimilar realities but with what I call fractal realism, recursively constituted fields of representation wherein characters and readers alike must continually adapt...
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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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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2018
... is in fact like a mirror held up to a mirror (I am thinking of Stendhal's description of what in the English tradition we call “realism” ); and rather than dialogism it presents a fundamental solipsism in the Novel's structure and subject—the modern subject it describes, to which it gives voice...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 August 2020
... appeared on our docket for final deliberation during 2018–19 and struck us as saying something new and different about the over-theorized concept of anachronism, together showing how that concept can momentarily open up within realism a number of unexpected perspectives on realism's relation to the history...
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Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Stefano Ercolino Abstract A narrative impulse and a scenic impulse: as Fredric Jameson persuasively argues in The Antinomies of Realism , the history of literary realism has been shaped by the dialectic between these two competing drives, each identified by a specific temporality. Yet realism's...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Laura Strout Abstract What insights into literary realism can be found by dwelling in the empty rooms and abandoned spaces of Bleak House , a novel more often read for its representation of overcrowded environments? Traveling between and imaginatively inhabiting empty houses of Charles Dickens's...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 189–209.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Jill Galvan 10 As Christopher Lane observes, Eliot was preoccupied by social visions of hatred and hostility, particularly in proximate conditions like marriage ( 107–35 ). Like Lane, Aaron Matz sees the critical emphasis on sympathy as a distraction from the complexity of Eliot's realism...
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