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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Ivan Kreilkamp Henry James famously remarked of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd that “[e]verything human in the book strikes us as factitious and insubstantial; the only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs.” This comment is generally taken as a simple putdown, but it can also...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... an arrant traitor to his defenceless sheep. His first feeling now was one of pity for the untimely fate of these gentle ewes and their unborn lambs. (33) The pity Oak feels for his sheep, however, does not spare his dog, which must pay with his life for the damage done to his flock and his prospects...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to the historical incorporation of the Americas into the European spatial imaginary. The epistemological consequences of so moving between discrepant scales and perspectives are particularly clear in the chapter relating Quixote's assault on a herd of sheep. On spotting an approaching dust cloud, he...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 46–68.
Published: 01 May 2001
... to a respectable
sheep farmer, the signs of her gentility are always affiliated with her literacy. In
Australia and New Zealand, Anthony Trollope writes: "I have been at very many
bush houses .. . but at not one, as I think, in which I have not found a fair provi-
sion of books.. . . To have a Shakespeare...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 116–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
...: Allen Lane, Penguin, 1977 . Dick , Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York: Ballantine, 1996 . Greenwald , Ted . “The Dark World of Ridley Scott.” Wired ( Oct. 2007 ): 178 –85. McLuhan , Marshall . Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man . Cambridge...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 258–276.
Published: 01 November 2004
... . Murakami , Haruki . “A Slow Boat to China.” The Elephant Vanishes: Stories By Haruki Murakami . Trans. Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. New York: Vintage Books, 1993 . 217 –39. Murakami , Haruki . A Wild Sheep Chase . Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. New York: Plume/Penguin, 1990 . Murakami...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 26–41.
Published: 01 May 2002
... on that trip,
perhaps in some sense in his stead. He sent Magwitch and Wilkins Micawber; he
dispatched two of his many sons-Alfred Tennyson Dickens and Edward
Bulwer Lytton Dickens-to be sheep farmers in the bush; and he shipped off
many (hopefully) reformed prostitutes from the home for homeless...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 98–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
...). His altered relation to animals is further evidenced
by his response to the two sheep Petrus brings back for a party to celebrate the
transfer of some of Lucy's land: he can't stand seeing them tethered at a barren
patch, and moves them to where there is grass. Again, he realizes only in retro...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
... fiction. As he concludes, “Hardy explores the possibilities for recognizing nonhuman animals—sheep and dogs—within the character space of the realist novel” (132). My only quibble with this remarkable chapter is that Kreilkamp might have cited Anna West's accomplished Thomas Hardy and Animals (Cambridge...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... Rhee explores the gendering and racializing of emotional labor and the dehumanization that is perpetuated by these technologies in her reading of Philip K. Dick's We Can Build You and his later novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Voigt-Kampff test, at the heart of this latter novel...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and excised in order that your own
life can go merrily forward. The reader's only apparent alternative in Never Let
Me Go is to identify with the carer/donors, who speak the middle class's own
optimistic, system-trusting language and yet embody the reality of the exploited,
a collectivity of sheep...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 320–325.
Published: 01 August 2010
... war of interpretations within Hogg’s fiction might
seem to be violence, which pervades his stories. After all, a death by lightning
or the drowning of sheep by a flash flood, or even a swordfight ending in death,
would seem to remove all uncertainty. Yet far from doing so, each violent blow...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 449–466.
Published: 01 November 2016
... sheep near the stables. Holmes explains subsequently how this pointed to the culprit's being the trainer himself, because if someone wanted to lame the stolen racehorse, he would have first practiced by cutting the tendons of such animals as sheep. Both of these facts are available in the lead-up...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... recognizable as Earth, he relates, From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 426–435.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ( Roadside Picnic ) and Philip K. Dick ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ) to Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler, science fiction after the so-called Golden Age (ca. 1940–55) has struggled in fascinating ways with fiction's quintessential cognitive conundrum: surface differences between persons, coupled...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 November 2011
... the sheep, which often grazes in churchyards.
(302)
Our bodies become the bodies of others, if not the bodies of animals or the material
out of which plants grow. Even he of the highest station—or his body, anyway—is
thus brought low, making ridiculous the idea of being buried alongside one’s...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 444–460.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff” ( Smith 38 ). Crudo 's Kathy “missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id” ( Laing 43 ). The “permanent present” is associated with the infantile demand for immediacy...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 August 2001
... of the debate taking place that would lead
to the reforms of the 1830s. Between 1819 and 1832 nearly 1000 people were
hanged publicly, but only 20% were for convictions of murder. Over 50% of exe-
cutions were for burglary, forgery, theft of sheep and cattle, etc. If Scott's allusion
to "popular...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
... or rather flappers, something like the tails of Turkey sheep with which he muffled up my head all round as with the hood of a great coat. I knew my business was only to ruminate on all that had passed in my thoughts from my first arrival, for he would feel the ideas as they rose” (4: 179). Tucker's theory...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
... by self-makers. At the same time, she is a counter-Crusoe, miniaturized: “She was the same as ever, except I thought she looked smaller,” Mrs. Todd says of seeing Joanna during her one visit to the island (436). “She never wanted the sheep after that first season . . . but the chickens done well” (432...
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