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..., and George Eliot's Middlemarch stakes its claim as a novel not only alongside, but also beyond, sensibilities and modes sociological, that other explorer of the “new social continent.” This essay shows that the novel's desire to secure its difference from sociological practices is strong enough to write...

... , Richard . “Introduction: ‘How Bigger Was Born.’” Native Son . vii –xxxiv. Wright , Richard . Native Son . New York: Harper & Row, 1987 . The Road Out of the Black Belt: Sociology's Fictions hdBlack Subjectivity...

...Emily Steinlight Thomas Hardy's novels are notorious for the grim inevitability with which their characters fall prey to biological and sociological forces beyond their control. Jude the Obscure in particular, culminating in the suicide of its protagonist's children “because we are too menny...

...Edward Morgan Day Frank Working at the intersection of literary sociology and affect theory, this essay considers the rise of interest as an organizing principle in the American school system at the turn of the twentieth century, alongside the fixation on disgust in the period's literature...

...Michael Lucey This article is in part an attempt to demonstrate Proust's interest in the sociological functioning of talk, where talk is viewed not solely as a medium for communication but also as one in which social work of various kinds is accomplished via nonsemantic features of language...

... in Invisible Man alongside Ellison's sociological writings on Harlem, most notably “Harlem's America” and “Harlem Is Nowhere,” Ellison's piece on Wertham's Lafargue Clinic. While Ellison does not unreservedly endorse the influence of comics on American youth, he does underscore the productive, imaginative...

... specialized language, closed social spaces, and charismatic leadership—has its origins in antitotalitarian political science, fiction, sociology, and psychology. Mitchell and Haruki Murakami (discussed briefly) both question how this Cold War legacy has shaped our understandings of individual agency, and both...

.... ethnic literature as a struggle of influence between anthropologist Franz Boas’s concept of culture and the sociological model of cultural assimilation developed by Robert Park and the Chicago School of Sociology. Douglas outlines a three-phase framework for multicul- tural writing that begins...

...Priscilla Wald Reviews Reading Culture through a Literary Lens cynthia tolentino, America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009), pp. 200, cloth, $67.50, paper, $22.50. susan l. mizruchi...

... narrative fiction as an “instrument of sociological thought” in which collectivity is vividly present. “Sites mediate sociality” and provide occasions for that sociality to unfold (11). Works Cited Ellison Ralph . Invisible Man . New York : Random House , 1989 . Ginsberg Allen...

... acres” (290). Black labor is central to Du Bois's sociological narrative of African American economic independence; yet oddly no subject or worker occupies the language of uplift here. Instead, Du Bois lingers on a description of milieu that makes indefinite the very boundaries that preserve both...

... developments: Bergsonian vitalism, the industry of public relations, Pavlovian physiology and behaviorism, and the discipline of sociology. The level below that is occupied by four writers—D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West, and Samuel Beckett—who are matched, more or less, to the social developments...

... The Rise of the Novel , scholarship on the early novel continues to pose the kinds of epistemological and sociological questions that Watt brought to the historical study of fiction. So accepted, and dissected, is the belief in the related rise of the novel and the emergence of the modern individual...

... are these, at the novel’s outset, ‘‘characters’’ in only the loosest sense of the term, the sociological distance Frederic’s narrator maintains overlays the Nedahma Con- ference with a kind of grid, identifying, categorizing, and organizing its members. Any indicators of individual consciousness find themselves...

... to the 1790s? NOVEL I FALL 1999 identity, according to Benedict Anderson, modem print culture creates two kinds of seriality. The unbounded seriality of nationalism opens up a universalizing sociological imaginary, one in which professions, attitudes, and subject-positions are mimed...

... novel—fairly demands that he attend closely to ground sociological factors such as markets, institutions, and the current shape of media corporations. In the hands of a more plodding literary historian, the attempt to comprehend all the post-1970 iterations of the MCE novel could have become a game...

... in Sociology. Ed. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford UP, 1946. Works Cited Carey Benedict . “Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory.” New York Times 5 Apr. 2009 : A1 . Freeman John . “Has the Novel Been Murdered by the Mob?” Guardian 5 July 2007...

... . New York: MacMillan, 1917 . Warner , William . Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain . Berkeley: U of California P, 1998 . How the Novel Became Middle Class: A History of Histories of the Novel George Boulukos The sociological...

... characters are there. This vision—of Dickens's minor characters participating in a kind of joint narrative world-making venture that reflects social life more broadly—has its roots in the theoretical and sociological literature on “awayness.” Modes of disengagement, or what Erving Goffman calls...

... Adrian . Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2009 . Kalberg Stephen . “Max Weber's Types of Rationality: Cornerstones for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History.” American Journal of Sociology 85 . 5 ( 1980...