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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
...—the violence—of Vietnam as a coherent discourse. As a result, they not only demand but also assume interpretation. Finally, the fact that Leslie Gelb, the Department of Defense editor of the Papers , officially introduced its more than seven thousand pages with a pointed reference to Moby‐Dick encourages us...
FIGURES
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Neil Ten Kortenaar Abstract Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings fictionalizes a historical incident, the shooting of Bob Marley in Kingston in 1976, and the larger political, economic, and cultural forces that led to it and emerged from it. Real people can enter fiction and retain...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 393–397.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Theodore Martin Part 1 of Seven Modes focuses on the modes of uncertainty afforded by mutual exclusion—conflicting events or interpretations within a single novel. The first chapter follows the “oscillations” of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 . This will stand as a definitive reading...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 492–496.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and changes internal to the discipline of English have
had on literary studies; and third, to read closely seven recent literary landmarks to illus-
trate the globalization theories and literary-studies developments that the book sets forth.
Global Matters is comprehensive, clear, and within the confines...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 175–177.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of privacy that the home could never actually provide. In a range
of important works (including Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," Douglass's "The
Heroic Slave," Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, and Thoreau's Walden), Shamir
reads the concern with private space in the home as one aspect...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 August 2010
... more” (215). In his Paris Review interview with George Plimpton,
Hemingway talked about the writer’s need to observe and then to write on “the principle
of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows” (235).
The demand for authorial knowledge...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of that time that Evolution was a pro-human force making things better and better for mankind” ( Seven ix ). The novel envisions a world in which Homo sapiens has diverged into two subspecies—Eloi and Morlocks—a biological process that would realistically take thousands of generations to unfold. Yet...
FIGURES
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 482–484.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., sermons, newspaper stories, political essays, and criminal confessions as to novels and poems, The Oracle and the Curse is both a “poetics” and a cultural history along the lines of Michael Warner's The Letters of the Republic or Jay Fliegelman's Declaring Independence . Over the course of seven...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the nebulous genre of “big books” before, but none so successful or analytically astute. With admirable clarity, Stefano Ercolino identifies ten characteristics that typify the “maximalist novel,” discussing seven examples from American and European novels to illustrate his thesis. Of course, any such attempt...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 521–524.
Published: 01 November 2011
... boundaries, or stops time altogether. In such texts
as Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and Nathanial Hawthorne’s The House of the
Seven Gables and in such genres as the historical romance, early southwestern humor, and
African American life writing, Pratt identifies conflicting temporal registers...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 May 2021
... was also common. Both words appear repeatedly in Goethe's oeuvre, and Das Goethe-Wörterbuch ( The Goethe Dictionary ) lists seven different main senses of the word Empfindung and seven main senses of the word Gefühl found in Goethe's collected works. In Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in the sixth and seventh chapters, where he studies early African American takes
on interiorization in Martin Delany’s Blake and Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative
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and follows them with readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): v.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Century.
REBECCA L. WALKOWITZ is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of
Cosmopolitari Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006) and editor or co-editor of seven bde,
including lmmipnt Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (2007...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 149–153.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of seven writers all taking
a quite similar quantitative/statistical approach to book culture.
In his brief preface, Moretti identifies "three different registers" to be used to make
sense of a new notion of the history of the novel. One he calls "Essays," or "works of ab-
straction, synthesis...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the case: a great attempt at reducing unpredictability and re-balancing
the narrative system. Let me give you an example from The Story of the Stone: after
six or seven hundred pages, the two young undeclared lovers, Bao-yu and Dai-yu,
have one of their many fights; Dai-yu leaves, and Bao-yu, left...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 387–392.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Poetry and Tales . New York: Library of America, 1984 . 826 -32. Sacks , Oliver . “A Surgeon's Life.” An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales . New York: Vintage, 1995 . 77 -107. Schwartz , Jeffrey M. with Beverly Bayette. Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 381–399.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to its emotional and political impact. While Estha and Rahel, being only seven years old, lack the legal and linguistic knowledge to understand the precise terms of their mother's dispossession, the locusts that so ominously swarm their youthful imaginary indicate their acute awareness of her...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
Published: 01 August 2009
... them to their future lives: “Also at the head
of the crowd were Delores, seven years old, and her brother Patrick, three years
younger. Delores would live to be ninety-five years old, but her brother would die
when he was forty-seven, shot three times by a man as Patrick came out of the
man’s...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 385–392.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes , “Eteocles is not ‘a human being,’ reasonable or otherwise. . . . He is a figure in a Greek tragedy” (277). Still, we might suppose that people even in a fairly primitive narrative, not to speak of Greek tragedy, would meet Aristotle's definition of character...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 305–307.
Published: 01 August 2019
... that computers can position annotations at the bottom of the page, why are there no less than forty-seven pages of often lengthy and thoughtful notes closeted away in the back, where they will surely gather dust? ...
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