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Constructing Attachment: Persistent and Elided Speech in Jane Austen's Novels
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Tara K. Menon Abstract This article argues that theorists of the novel have consistently overlooked direct speech even though it proliferates in realist fiction. Using the novels of Jane Austen as a case study, I show how close attention to direct speech can improve our understanding of both major...
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 3. Speech patterns of Austen's heroines and Mary Crawford.
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Crane's Speech Figures and the Making of Whilomville's Monster
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 400–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Martin Zirulnik Odd phrases—certain vaguely humorous idiomatic figures of speech—are far too instrumental in the narrative development of Crane's fiction to be considered incidental, though their precise role remains obscure. At times, particular phrases and figures even seem to exert a surreal...
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“Speech Was of No Use”: Conrad, a New Journalism, and the Critical Abjection of Testimony
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 176–197.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... Stape , J.H. “‘Conrad Controversial’: Ideology and Rhetoric in the Essays on the Titanic.” Prose Studies 11 ( 1988 ): 61 –68. Wollaeger , Mark . Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990 . "Speech Was of No Use": Conrad, a New
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Rancière’s Style
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 284–300.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., as Bruno Bosteels rightly notes, “displays a brilliant use of the free indirect style of speech.” Style regards the arrangement of peoples, places, and events into collectivities. In this essay I elaborate Rancière's political style of writing. I begin by tracing Rancière's debt to Karl Marx's critique...
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Proust and Language-in-Use
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., rhythms of speech, accent and intonation, word choice, etc.) reveals the occurrence through the use of those features of key forms of sociocultural activity (the production and maintenance of social identities, the reproduction of aspects of a social order, attempts to modify some part of that order...
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Law, Parody, and the Politics of African American Literary History
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 437–442.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Mitchell Trust's accusation of copyright infringement took advantage of the fair use doctrine in US copyright law, which protects the literary communication of free, political speech. While Houghton Mifflin was ultimately successful—insofar as it won a favorable verdict from a court of appeals, settled out...
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Human beyond Understanding: Frederick Douglass's New Liberal Individual
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Lloyd Pratt This essay argues that in his autobiographies, journalism, and speeches, Frederick Douglass carved out a new version of humanism that broke with both the liberalism individualism of Jacksonian America and the anachronistic civic republicanism espoused by white abolitionists. In addition...
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Review Essay: The Whole Hogg
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 320–325.
Published: 01 August 2010
... alternatives. In Hogg's fiction, divergence in belief does not solely or inevitably occur at the level of speech itself, but may also be found at the level of incident, plot, character, or motive—in the question of what makes a given occurrence into a “story” at all. Hogg strives for a sort of epistemological...
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Proust and the Powers of Language
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 469–472.
Published: 01 November 2023
... roles in conversation and in the idiosyncrasies of speech. The project of What Proust Heard is at once to analyze that narrative mode and to inculcate in the reader a novelistic form of attention to talk and to the social patterns that are revealed and enacted in talk. Two metadiscourses meet...
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Hearing Voices
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2005
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Readers of Novel will have seen, in Ivan Kreilkamp's 1999 essay "Unuttered: Withheld
Speech and Female Authorshp in lane Eyre and Villette" (Summer 1999: 331-54), a strenu-
ously argued case against the "fantasy of speech as self-expression and the metaphor...
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Melancholy, Race, and Sovereign Exemption in Early American Fiction
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europeaum . Trans. G.L. Ulmen New York: Telos, 2003 . Seeber , Edward D. “Critical Views on Logan’s Speech.” Journal of American Folklore 60.236 ( 1947 ): 130 –46. Trumpener , Katie . Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of speech. Nevertheless, it is difficult to argue that James had made it bad on purpose, even if he may have suggested as much: “Oh, how it must not be too good and how very bad it must be! À moi, Scribe; À moi, Sardou, à moi, Dennery!” And all this may have gone over the head or simply beyond earshot...
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Curses!
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 482–484.
Published: 01 November 2015
...” and which paled in comparison to Brown's passionate address at his trial (29). At the same time, Smith argues, the incendiary speech of Brown (and other “martyrs”) inaugurated new possibilities for fiction writers and poets: “In the story of the martyr, of innocence or righteousness condemned...
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Nella Larsen's Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... Passing , by extension, examines small talk as the microlinguistic mode of etiquette in speech; but small talk, properly conducted, risks diminishing and trivializing the bourgeois norms of etiquette it legitimates. At the intersection of several entrenched cultural norms of assimilation, Larsen's small...
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Representation between Utilitarianism and Liberalism: Focalization in Phineas Finn
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 236–254.
Published: 01 August 2017
... provide the exemplar of how to do it. This distinction of political and domestic space is easy enough to track in the plot of Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (1867–68), which is my focus in this article, when household interiors provide the scene for the judgment of a parliamentary speech, 3 when...
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Colonial Power and the Law against Feeling
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of pleasure that we will now have freedom of speech and expression under this sub-clause and the word ‘sedition’ is also going to disappear” ( Sinha 171 ). In the years after independence, too, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru called the law “highly objectionable and obnoxious,” arguing that “it should have...
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Sympathetic Vibrations
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 503–507.
Published: 01 November 2021
... as bound up with a distinctively colonial speech mode that involves the mass concentration of data through a singular observational aperture (30, 31). She will instead favor a “negative recording” (38). Her exciting proposition is that certain novelistic forms will function as a phonograph that, rather...
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Make It Work!
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 493–496.
Published: 01 November 2014
... as ‘‘a perverted jew’’ (101).
Noting that ‘‘Casement and Bloom dissolve into the same figure’’ in a telling confusion of
pronouns, Mullen argues that Casement’s queer cosmopolitanism inflects Bloom’s famous
speech on love as the true basis of ‘‘life for men and women’’ (109). In an ingenious reading...
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On Voice
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 281–306.
Published: 01 November 2000
... . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Bakhtin , M.M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Trans. Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Bakhtin , M.M. Speech Genres and Other...
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