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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 361–383.
Published: 01 November 2006
...: Cambridge UP, 1996 . Ellwood , Gracia Fay . ‘“Such a Dead Silence:’ Cultural Evil, Challenge, Deliberate Evil, and Metanoia in Mansfield Park” Persuasions On-line 24:1 ( 2003 ). 14 November 2005 < http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol24no1/ellwood.html >. Ferguson...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 444–465.
Published: 01 November 2011
... from Tatekeya's Earth , by Cook-Lynn Elizabeth . American Indian Quarterly 28 . 1–2 ( Winter-Spring 2004 ). 130 – 41 . “All the Talk and All the Silence”: Literary Aesthetics and Cultural Boundaries in David Treuer’s Little PADRAIG KIRWAN [A]rt...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the genre's biographical pattern) culminates in a surreal encounter that Coetzee's readers have claimed limns a restorative justice or a utopic futurity. But these interpretations ignore the text's insistence on a silence that overwhelms language, the specter of mass death, and a summative darkness...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... These correspondences derive, this essay argues, from the letter's material properties, which underlie its ability to function as metaphor. The letter's temporal structure of delay and the silences and instability that delay produces, in particular, have productive affinities with the workings of the differend...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 412–414.
Published: 01 November 2000
...' and why we strive to keep such subjects there" (4). In embarking on this project, Holland is quick to explain that her readings of death will be "discontinuous"; that is, she reads death "as a cultural and national phenomenon or discourse, as a figurative silencing or process of erasure...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 319–323.
Published: 01 November 2002
... is an adequate strategy to address this problem." And, as writers rather than historians, they can anploy the "postmodern poetics of absence and silence to emphasize the limits of recovery efforts." In each chapter of Against Amnesia, Peterson adds new complications to the project of historical...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 446–449.
Published: 01 November 2006
... whch the sexual acts that stand at the thematic center of these novels remain unarticulated in the narratives. "The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of the era as sexually progressive," the author explains in her introduction, "by identifying a resonant silence at the heart...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 235–252.
Published: 01 August 2000
... (despite the irony of Merchant Venturer sponsorshp for the brochure). It is implied that the truth has been withheld, and that silence has prevailed where speech should have oc- curred. At Number 32, a statue of city father Edward Colston, we read: "This statue of Edward Colston c.1895 idealizes...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
...: Melville and ‘the Voice of Silence,’” parts 1 and 2 . boundary 2 28 . 2 ( 2001 ): 105 – 31 ; 28.3 (2001): 133–55 . Weinstein Cindy . Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2004 . Wolf Arthur P. Introduction...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2021
... through the vector of sound, literature's literal silence will always demand extraordinary scholarly acrobatics and labyrinthine theories of influence. However, inaudible cultures, such as the culture of acoustics I address here, facilitate acts of aural imagination that arise during sound's absence...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 May 2020
... with danger; cautious of the meanings they reveal, Maisie is acutely aware of these sensations, and as a result of this attention they become her means for interpreting and communicating motive, desire, and intimacy. She quickly discovers that “patient little silences and intelligent little looks could...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the discourses, becoming connoisseurs of these various silences. Sedgwick's Behueen Ailm (along with Episterrrolo~of fJie Closet-)offers one of the field's most powerful examples of symptomatic reading-or what Sedgwick herself in more recent work has called paranoid reading. Sedgwick's early writing...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 86–111.
Published: 01 August 2004
... mind can ver- bally excavate its supposedly buried materiaL5 What narrative does, then, is to generate a coherent subjectivity that is a silencing of the visual's drive toward fragmentation. Above all, optical experience shatters the construction of the "I," as can be seen so precisely in Anna...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., writing that “[t]he audible silence which surrounds the source of the Newsomes’ wealth is, indeed, symptomatic of the way in which the novel as a whole works in tracing the suppressed connections between the worlds of culture and commerce” ( 153 ). “James's strategy of representing the ‘abyss’ between...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 307–316.
Published: 01 November 2020
... alert to the ways in which anxiety or uncertainty might at any moment—such as in the extraordinary passage describing the “little timed silence” in which Maggie's husband Prince Amerigo looks at her from her drawing-room door—expand not into knowledge or recognition but, in the opposite direction...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 107–110.
Published: 01 May 2004
... reading of the silences in the official historical record, Sharpe seeks to narrate what these women could not say or write about themselves, often finding agency in the very gaps, fissures, and inconsistencies of her archival sources. NOVEL I FALL 2004 Sharpe begins...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 296–299.
Published: 01 August 2015
... arises best where the concern of mutuality is best suspended. In a fifth chapter and a coda, Yousef reads the enabling silences of a beloved person in romantic lyric in relation to the psychoanalyst's silence in the analytic scene. Both discourses, she argues, accept the coexistence...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 479–483.
Published: 01 November 2019
... new ways to reconfigure the interaction of photography, cinema, and writing within a wider visual landscape. According to the publisher's blurb: Beeston argues that the gaps and intervals of the composite literary text model the visual syntax of photography—as well as its silences, absences...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 317–321.
Published: 01 August 2015
...) and Ombre sultane (1987). As Andrade points out, Fantasia promises a bildung story but interrupts it with explicit national allegory (the individual characters' life stories are indexical of the silencing of the Algerian people as Algeria was colonized by the French in the nineteenth century). Ombre...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Introduces India . Ed. Francis , Robert Moraes and Howe Edward. Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. London: André Deutsch, 1974 . ———. The Silence of Desire . New York: John Day, 1960 . ———. Some Inner Fury . New York: John Day, 1955 . ———. Two Virgins . New York: John Day...