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... theory,” a set of governing axioms about life in outer space that make a necessary, inescapable hostility between different forms of organized life the fundamental political fact of the cosmos. This article argues that Carl Schmitt's political theory—his critique of liberalism, his investment...

..., this essay uses the concepts of globalectics, heterotopia, liminality, and heteroglossia to argue that the novel is the ultimate heterotopia, containing in itself or rather reflecting in a more holistic manner than probably any other genre all the other spaces of the economy, politics, culture, values...

... , Anthony . Gentlemen Capitalists: British Imperialism in Southeast Asia, 1770–1890 . London: Tauris, 1998 . Seeing the Animal: Colonial Space and Movement in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim SANJAY KRISHNAN But there are degrees of feeling-the muffled, the faint...

... . “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought . Ed. Paul Rabinow. London: Penguin, 1984 . Foucault , Michel . “Of Other Spaces.” Trans. Jay Miskowiec. Diacritics 16 ( 1986 ): 22 –27. Foucault , Michel . “On the Genealogy of Ethics...

... us to broadcast our lives online, Claire Messud's fiction plays with the idea of the protagonist as a grotesquely gigantic, outsized figure. Literalizing Alex Woloch's insight that novel characters inhabit “character space” within them (Woloch 111), Messud's protagonist balloons into a psychological...

...” (234) rather than to contemporary literature as a unified whole. Insofar as the extraterritorial is defined as a seemingly niche or extraneous collection of spaces that are in fact more central to contemporary political geography than we might expect, finding it housed in genres that are not generally...

... .” 1786 . Kant , Perpetual Peace . 49 – 60 . Kant Immanuel . “ To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch .” 1795 . Kant , Perpetual Peace . 107 – 43 . Kern Stephen . The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918 . 2nd ed. Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2003 . Latour...

...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon This article turns to the space of the colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to offer an alternative theory of the novel—one that defines colonial geographies as constitutive of the novel as a genre rather than as marginal and inessential. In looking...

... in time and space that is “outside the bounds of humanity.” At a time when ideas of black kinlessness still had potency in US law and society, Du Bois's strange representation of blackness as a fourth dimension in space is counterintuitive. Why forgo the conventional novelistic categories of family...

...Yoon Sun Lee Abstract Although accounts of the realist novel have not always adequately examined the experience of movement through space, this embodied epistemology is critical to the genre's development. Drawing on the physiology of perception as investigated by Erasmus Darwin and others, Scott...

.... Mansfield Park initially offers its east room as a spatial analogue for Fanny Price's interior, but it gradually revokes narrative access to the space in order to defer wholly to external status markers. Likewise, Villette 's Lucy Snowe creates architectural constructions as a means of representing her...

... with emergent forms of life in spaces where ideological forces have ceded to material ones. The speculative mutations in these texts give body to various forms of emergent, unconceptualized, or fantastic subjectivities, homologous with but not reducible to the “real” mutations taking place in South African...

...Laura Strout Abstract What insights into literary realism can be found by dwelling in the empty rooms and abandoned spaces of Bleak House , a novel more often read for its representation of overcrowded environments? Traveling between and imaginatively inhabiting empty houses of Charles Dickens's...

... in the high‐tech America of “research and development” are pitted against the contrasting affect, emphatically detached in space and time, of savage sensory deprivation suffered by an Arab American US citizen as jihadist prisoner in Beirut. Only at the eleventh hour of plot time is this man's plight revealed...

...Daniel Williams This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation...

... this transition from general ideas to their individualized incarnations, it explores the way in which the affective investment necessary for this conversion depends on a prolonged experience of shared time and space. By showing how the novel extends to written documents themselves the effects of shared time...

...Alexandra Neel This article examines the spaces still life in Frankenstein , arguing that Mary Shelley draws on this rich visual tradition from its humblest manifestations in the painting of food to its most conceptual in its explorations of light, human perception, and death. Following Norman...

..., the interstitial space that affect occupies offers a site of revelation that enables an articulation of gendered violence outside the restrictive linguistic and emotional culture in which it occurs. In this way, Milkman is instructive in illustrating how insidious forms of violence are enabled to occur within...

... to an ongoing reconsideration of historical consciousness in the context of the climate crisis. Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles recursively activates scalar multiplicity: first, by dramatizing the intersection of scales of value, time, and space; and second, by suggesting that this drama may be understood...

... minor characters take part in central spaces while not being contained by them. Their distance from main scenes and settings, captured in passing by a gaze that has no interest in registering these elsewheres in any level of depth, has the effect of making minor characters appear strange, memorable...