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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 2012
... still understanding the political risks and gains of such acknowledgment. This is also an argument about how we read surfaces: the surfaces of texts, bodies, and objects. Works Cited Jay Martin . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought . Berkeley : U...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 190–207.
Published: 01 August 2015
... invested in an ideological interpretation of the end of the Cold War as a victory for the West. The complex narrative demands that the reader embrace history's lost causes and not just the victor's truth. However, the text's complexity involves risks. There is a danger that the novel's expansive...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2020
... whole, in planetarity the aim is to maintain them in a dialogic relationality. On the face of it, such a recalibration seems relatively straightforward. However, the three novels discussed in this essay suggest that the retention of the maximal scale as a constituting frame for representation risks...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Janina Levin Abstract Readers traditionally associate heroism with risk and confidence in one's abilities. Yet within the realist tradition, Henry James creates a portrait of an unconfident heroine. The Golden Bowl 's Maggie Verver demonstrates she has the ability to become an effective actor...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
... opt instead for risk-averse and mechanical-like behaviors that are antonymous to change. This, however, is not a solely aesthetic phenomenon, and the essay examines the figure of the nonactor in Ishiguro's novels as part of a broader turn toward nonaction. It does so by considering this figure...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... People seek to enter the imagination of others, but to do so is also to risk being hollowed out and rendered imaginable, becoming a fictional character and less than a full person. But if there is only fiction, fiction also contributes to the collective memory. An awareness of the performative nature...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as a formal strategy of two contemporary realist novels engaged in updating the genre to present scales of crisis: Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2014). As these novels process new forms of risk in a time of epochal fracture, they likewise signal a conceptual break in realism's...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... that this article risks calling the “graphic” novel. While we generally think of the novel's rise as paralleling the development of depth psychology or modern individualism, this account of the novel instead forges an argument for its development as a means of cataloging the complex systems of relationships...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 35–55.
Published: 01 May 2017
... depends on the hero's breaking with, rather than remaining faithful to, youthful impressions. Startlingly actualized toy stories, however, risk keeping the narrative childish, backward glancing, even as they look forward to an impending modernity and the language of object-relations psychoanalysis...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 466–470.
Published: 01 November 2019
... is entirely persuasive in all of its particulars. The thesis of The Poetics of Insecurity is the assertion that a desire for security represents not a collective psychological response to threat but rather an inherently narrative and fictional system for inhabiting a modern, secular risk society...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 325–328.
Published: 01 November 2007
...CHERYL L. WALKER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 JEAN WYATT, Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community (Albany: State U of New York P, 2004), pp. 286, cloth, $71.50, paper, $29.95. Identification and Difference
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 128–131.
Published: 01 May 2024
... assimilation of contingency and related ideas of probability and risk. Darwin's work, as Gillian Beer and others have shown, provided writers with a model of a master narrative in which there was no guiding hand of providence; minor happenstance variations in a species could generate dramatic differences over...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 497–501.
Published: 01 November 2012
... turns to par-
ticular plots, presenting readings of novels by Daniel Defoe, Fielding, and Laurence Sterne.
Taken together, these readings illustrate Molesworth’s contention that to gamble is to enter
plot and that novelistic plots invite readers to engage in risk analysis. The chapter on Defoe...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 May 2020
... moment in which the individual is endowed with robust agency but also exposed to intensifying risk. Chapter 4 provides the theoretical paradigm for this paradox, considering the relationship between sovereignty, which treats the individual as “a bounded, rational unit of life,” and the society of control...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . “Racism and Nationalism.” Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities . Ed. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. London: Verso, 1991 . Barber , Benjamin R. “On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism.” The Nation 21 Jan . 2002 : 11 –18. Beck , Ulrich . Risk Society...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 475–478.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of pseudo-impressionism that the book has reconceived and traced. Along the way, Matz also revisits Renoir and early French cinema, whose stylistic innovations “cohere around an effort to humanize film mechanics” in a moment when camera work risked becoming a dehumanizing, soul-robbing force (108). Here...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 393–397.
Published: 01 August 2016
... historical setting, the context of its writing, and Morrison's intentions in writing it is too thorny to untangle. Yet this knot of context, content, and form is exactly what literary objects are and exactly where literary interpretation starts. To set it aside too quickly is to risk forgetting that behind...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 May 2005
... to the unpredictable
ups and downs of economic speculation, is it any surprise that ethical and cul-
tural values risk destabilization as well, that a bad book should receive a good
review and that an honest, old-fashioned Englishman should be denied marriage
to the nice, wholesome Englishwoman he desires...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., against its expressed purposes, to make the connections among different dis-
ciplines a function of critical ingenuity, rather than an essential aspect of its material. That
is, paradoxically, it risks defining interdisciplinarity as (and confining it to) a critical
practice performed on immobile...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... brings to the surface the paradoxes that inhere in small talk as a way of exposing cultural ambivalences that shape the very forms of assimilation that small talk facilitates. Small talk, Larsen reveals, enables racial passing by linguistic deflection but in doing so risks exposing itself as camouflage...
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