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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Nidesh Lawtoo In the wake of Chinua Achebe's critique of Conrad as a “thoroughgoing racist,” much has been said about race in Heart of Darkness ; and yet, so far, the anthropological meaning of the rituals Conrad describes has tended to remain unexplored. “A Picture of Europe” reopens the race...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 May 2014
... capital. In the process, Danticat further destabilizes the secularism thesis and premium on democratic reason by aesthetically incarnating the affective, embodied, ritual practices that forge a community. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Agamben Giorgio...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
... marriage rituals, spurred by an unconsummated affair between Newland Archer and his wife's cousin Ellen Olenska, follows Goldman in positing an antagonism between the hierarchies of marriage and the equalizing nature of love. For Wharton, however, this antagonism will not be resolved with free love one day...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the national hero General Nogi performed the
by then very old, anachronistic, atavistic, indeed pointedly antimodern act of ritual
suicide (with his wife) following the death of his lord the Meiji Emperor, icon of the
birth of Japan’s modernity and occupant of the imperial throne when it was restored...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (3): 496–499.
Published: 01 November 2011
... by and
about prisoners, treatises by political theorists, and the rhetoric of penal reformers. For
Smith the prison is an imaginative landscape that has been defined by stories and politi-
cal rituals about bodies and souls, freedom and bondage. With this swath of texts, Smith’s
The Prison...
Journal Article
Novel (2020) 53 (1): 96–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
... [a] fire, holding up to their foreheads [some] grinning lizardy things . . . before tossing them into the flames while everyone else watche[s] solemnly” ( Yanagihara 211 ). 5 But the ritual that Norton finds most compelling, and most unsettling, is the a'ina'ina ceremony. One evening, as he is walking...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 338–368.
Published: 01 November 2001
..., as Agee
points out, "tenant-kitchen redolences for which it was never intended" (Pmise
179).
The Gudgers' most precious belongings make sense not as symbolic signifiers
of poverty, but through their connection to rituals of work and ablution. In fact,
the authors suggest that the croppeirs...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 542–545.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Jamie Parra Work Cited Dayan Colin . The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2013 . Finally, Character and Person is about what readers are in the moment when they are absorbed by the description of a fictional being...
Journal Article
Novel (2015) 48 (2): 292–295.
Published: 01 August 2015
...—as a social virtue, a ritual performance of paternalism's conciliatory power, condescension came to represent a shameful, dis-integrative act over the course of the nineteenth century. Addressing how and why this transformation took place provides the basis for a more extended consideration of charity...
Journal Article
Novel (2014) 47 (1): 167–185.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to shape a culture in which collective rituals, forms of
knowledge, and social life were crafted around death itself. ‘‘Death was as gener-
ative as it was destructive writes Brown. ‘‘In a society characterized by movement
and uncertainty theactivities surrounding death gave the volatile world...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2011
... reconceive
of nostalgia in Twilight not merely as a reflection on the past but as itself a text,
comprising rituals of repeated gestures and embodied actions. Instances of such
nostalgia are thus always already staged, presenting not only the past but also a
tableau in which the past, frozen in time...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (1): 5–9.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.” They were “absolutely different from all the sites that they reflect and speak about.” That description fits the space of prison, my experience of it, at least. At the midnight hour of December 1977, armed police raided my home with all the ritual...
Journal Article
Novel (2003) 36 (3): 398–422.
Published: 01 November 2003
... UP, 1996 . Davies , Douglas . Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites . London: Cassell, 1997 . Douglas , Lawrence . The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust . New Haven: Yale UP, 2001 . Dyer , Geoff . The Missing...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 38–46.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 1869 The Subjection of Women)
memorably describes the suffocating effect of the empty social rituals women
must perform when they could instead be pursuing their real work elsewhere.
Nightingale’s denunciation of social tyranny and the evils of the vicarious escapes...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (2): 284–289.
Published: 01 August 2009
... without. In Hawthorne’s own case, it is imposed by an act of
address. Again and again, he complains, he was visited by traveling Americans
who had come to the consulate precisely in order to address him as “my consul”
(OO 11). They would often follow this act of address with a ritual that further...
Journal Article
Novel (2009) 42 (3): 387–392.
Published: 01 November 2009
... 3 June 2007 : 1 , 12 -13. ———. Motherless Brooklyn . New York: Vintage, 2000 . Osborn , Ian . Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder . New York: Pantheon, 1998 . Poe , Edgar Allan . “The Imp of the Perverse.” 1845...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
... if contemporary ideas of
homosexuality are anachronistic, the idea of the closet, in the sense of an unspoken
sexuality that is not catered to by official rituals, is a structural predicament that
might apply in many times or places. In telling us something about the relation-
ship between private...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (2): 217–235.
Published: 01 August 2017
...) of the city—these are the two major senses of the character and of the ritual” (130). The ritual was the ancient Greek practice in which, usually during the festival of Thargelia but also during times of crisis, two ugly, lower-class, criminal, or otherwise abject persons were exiled from a city, and perhaps...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 May 2024
... order of law as it is publicly established through the court of the Areopagus. Hardy integrates this model of transformative change, from one symbolic order to another, to accommodate another ancient shift in symbolic order: the move from law to grace. The ritual worship practices of the Old Testament...
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