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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Daniel Hack This essay argues that a combination of the frequently opposed methods of book history and reception studies, on the one hand, and those of formal analysis and close reading, on the other, is needed to illuminate the cultural work done by and with novels. Taking as my example...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
... detained by his master while resident in England. In its popular reception, the Somerset ruling initiated a series of both literary and legal precursors for Coetzee's narrator in Waiting for the Barbarians , a figure we can call the “chastened magistrate,” also representing the establishment under British...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 284–300.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Davide Panagia Jacques Rancière's political writings have enjoyed increased reception and engagement in the Anglo-American world. Yet few readers have paused to ask themselves what reading practices his works presume and evoke and if there is a politics to his stylistics. The conventional approach...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Diego Saglia The nexus “Austen and translation” is among the most recurrent in contemporary studies of the author's reception and has generated a significant body of research on renditions of the novels in other languages. This essay contends that, however relevant and valuable, this approach...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., this article further argues that the context of Third Worldism is largely eliminated in the reception of global South literature in the world literary setting. It contends that recognizing the formation of Third World cosmopolitan novelists in the milieu of an international socialist literary culture oriented...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
... with the Amazon present in the author's novels coexists with his defense of drastic changes in the region through environmental exploitation and the acculturation of Indigenous populations. While Vargas Llosa's work enjoyed a positive reception in the 1960s, the nontransitive notion of mimesis he proposed has...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 44–66.
Published: 01 May 2024
... attending to the novel's own reception of those histories. Focusing on the significance of the novel's intertextual and paratextual evidence in an interpretation of the novel's unconventional narrative strategies, the essay examines hybrid modes of reading the novel, as well as reading in the novel as a way...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
...) and worlding (in making new ways of seeing, knowing, thinking, and being palpable to those worlds). After providing a brief survey of realism's critical reception and some postulates for future scholarship, this introduction lays out the arc of the special issue. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 344–362.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Dean Franco This essay argues that metaphors are not objects that simply appear in literature but are phenomena, contingent on a reader's anticipation and affirmation. This dialectical relation, between the metaphors consciously and unconsciously patterned in texts and the receptivity of readers...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 429–448.
Published: 01 November 2016
... their American misreaders, reimagining social nightmares as pleasant fantasies. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Charles Dickens George Du Maurier advertising sensationalism reception Our Mutual Friend , in other words, hinges on a desire that takes many forms in the transatlantic...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 452–464.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in a magazine, purchase it as a book, even borrow the book from a subscription lending library or a public library relying on taxes, I have some economic relationship to the work and its author. As scholars of literary reception have shown us, my response to that novel contributes to its economic circulation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the perfectionism of the Enlightenment, was based on the belief that
receptivity to exemplary others (including other, better versions of oneself) has the power
to overcome skepticism about the existence of other minds. This is the starting point of
Andrew H. Miller’s important new book, The Burdens...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 180–201.
Published: 01 August 2001
...-in
other words, from the 1790s, more or less to the present day-the reception of the
Romantic-era novel is studded with glaring examples of male critics dismissing
the form on account of a feminine inability to respect appropriate boundaries.
What is a Romantic novel? One might conclude that the best...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 317–321.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of constraining narrative frames that have limited the reception of African novels written by women. A transformative intervention in African literary historiography, this trailblazing study simultaneously attends to the political dimension of novels, which Andrade illuminates in the tension between feminist...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 189–199.
Published: 01 November 2008
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sense of history. This tendency has been visible at least since the reception of
Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palrn-Wine Drinkavd (1952), which, though cele-
brated by Dylan Thomas and others, was dismissed by many African critics be-
cause of the author's use of what he called "broken...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Austen's Romantic mmmt of
production and her later post-Romantic moments of canonical reception and reproduction"
(2). She names her approach "historicizing" but stresses that she does not read for the al-
terity of the past but for the problematic continuities between past and present: Austen's...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 May 2019
... on the part of postcolonial studies is linked to the untimeliness of the political and theoretical framework that seems most suitable to the study of that region. Both the production and the reception, whether local or metropolitan, of Israeli and Palestinian literatures underscore the centrality...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 August 2009
... has made the theme of any given novel always more important
than its form. Witness the very different reception given to histories of Chinua
Achebe’s almost anthropological realism, especially in his most influential novel,
Things Fall Apart (1958), and Amos Tutuola’s fantastical tales recounted...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 482–484.
Published: 01 November 2015
... this address as a “curse,” a particular kind of performative speech that works as “an invocation of a transcendent justice,” Smith is attempting to identify “a certain structure of vatic address and collective reception that belonged to the period's repertoire of contestation” (20). The curse makes itself felt...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 330–335.
Published: 01 August 2010
...: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003 . Thrift , Nigel . Non-representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect . London: Routledge, 2007 . Tichi , Cecelia . Embodiment of a Nation: Human...
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