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The Early Novel and Catastrophe
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 November 2009
... that slammed into England and Europe; taken together, these “storm” texts begin to imagine the novel genre and its dread remainder. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Agamben , Giorgio . Means without End: Notes on Politics . Trans. Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino. Minneapolis: U...
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Ein Weites Feld as Post–Cold War Novel
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 190–207.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Scott McCracken Günter Grass's novel Ein weites Feld caused a storm of controversy when it was published in Germany in 1995. There was an expectation that his first novel after the fall of the Berlin Wall would answer the question of what should now constitute a national literature. Instead, he...
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Another World Is (Not) Possible
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 316–320.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and turns, instead, to a gift of time that emerges from something radically inhuman, it becomes difficult to understand not only how these texts could be written but why anyone might care to read them. The storm at the end of Ghosh's text is not only, or even primarily, a force of otherness. It is, rather...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 August 2020
... presence at once displaced by and stored in the restless subject matter of realism. 1 John Ruskin's lecture “The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” ( 1884 ) is perhaps the best-known piece of nineteenth-century “environmental” writing today, but my guess, based on the similarity between his...
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The Headwinds of “Cli-Crit”
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 469–471.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in conversation with the legion of amateur meteorological diarists of the eigh-
teenth century, not to mention Defoe’s own best-selling account of the great storm of 1703.
Less satisfying, unfortunately, is the follow-up chapter on Defoe, in which Lewis pairs his
bleak masterpiece, Journal of the Plague Year...
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Not So Bad
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 506–509.
Published: 01 November 2010
... together within a single sentence. For instance, in describing the
melodramatic scene in which we meet with the first embrace ofD orothea Brooke and Will
Ladislaw in Middlemarch, Puckett writes, “The storm is not only corny insofar as it exploits
without subtlety the pathetic fallacy but also...
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Rethinking the Real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
... placed him in a state of ‘‘forelorn soli-
tude’’ and imagines himself ‘‘some strange uncouth monster’’ (Treatise 264). Crusoe
also describes his appearance as ‘‘monstrous’’ and ‘‘frightful’’ (Crusoe 119). Images of
storms figure this sense of monstrosity and isolation, Hume imagining onlookers
who...
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Scenario Fiction and the Novel Claims of Insurance
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ending. Set during the fourteen-month interim between Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the novel's preoccupation with these storms more than warrants its frequent designation as a work of climate fiction. But despite their looming presence at each end of the novel, the two superstorms...
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“Unhuman Humanity”: Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 313–337.
Published: 01 November 2001
... phenomena
into text ("Experiments" 274). In two of his most celebrated sketches, "The Men
in the Storm" and "An Experiment in Misery," the figures that serve as the most
acute images of both literary impossibility and literary self-consciousness are the
bodies of urban tramps. In these sketches...
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Robinson Crusoe as Defoe's Theory of Fiction
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 165–185.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and a
Student.
A young Gentleman was on his way to a meeting of an atheist club that had
formed among some of the divinity students at the university. Unaware of the dark
clouds gathering overhead, the Gentleman was caught in a storm and took shelter
in the gateway of an inn. Suddenly, a bolt...
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Reading the Book of the World: Epic Representation in the Age of Our Geophysical Agency
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... presence. We have inscribed ourselves in its pages through our CO 2 emissions, our nuclear tests, our strip mines, and our general waste of the earth's resources. And the portents of our destiny that we now discern in nature—all those storms, the fracking-induced earthquakes, the annihilated species...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... incomprehensible to a character within the book. Chapter 54, “Storm during Middle Passage,” takes place on board the Vulture , which is captained by Royer. The Vulture has taken aboard a cargo of now-enslaved people from Western Africa and is about a day's sail out from Cuba—toward the end of the journey...
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Novel Values
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to demonstrate their “value” in terms of economic viability, must be carefully negotiated if not avoided altogether (7). We also cannot simply pretend that the storms of high theory were something we just had to sail through before returning, calmly and comfortably, to the smooth waters of representational...
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Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy and the So-Called Secret of the Historical Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 180–203.
Published: 01 August 2024
... on the cave walls, Deeti begins recounting “the Parting,” the episode that names the first escape of the five fugitives from the Ibis amid the storm at the end of Sea . In her own depiction of the scene on the cave wall, Deeti herself is “drawn in such a way that she appeared to be suspended in the air...
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The Sound of Incest: Sympathetic Resonance in Melville's Pierre
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
... that Melville’s novel most closely approximates Poe’s tale of
incest. For Melville’s Isabel, like Poe’s Roderick Usher, plays an enchanting guitar
accompanied by a lightning storm, and the apparent magic in both texts relies on
sonic tricks, sounds in the text exceeding their formal content and drawing...
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The Missing Matter of Revolution: Hydroelectricity and the Terrain of Postcolonial Politics
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... willingness for revolt among the Black population of Panafrica “a storm in a tea-cup,” the security officer Jones insists that, instead of a minor ripple in stable waters, the political atmosphere might be better described as “a charged cloud floating about the earth and infecting all people in all lands...
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Literature as a Matter of Policy
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of UNESCO's members were committed to storming this fortress, liberating the book trade in their developing home countries. But as an agency of cultural policy making, UNESCO's more fundamental aims were in fact cultural. Literary publishing on a small-national scale might not even produce much in the way...
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Reading Time
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 511–516.
Published: 01 November 2009
... is an event, but so is Pip’s increasing debt—the
scratching of an itch but also waiting for rivets, a fall off a ladder and also a wast-
ing disease. Narrative moves alternately between punctual events (a laugh, a slap,
a glance, a storm) and broader, slower events: a feud, a quest, the decay...
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Maritime Novelism
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the nineteenth
century, provides footnotes glossing marine terminology for his readers while attempting
to produce the sublime terror of navigating a storm at sea. J. M. W. Turner’s paintings, such
as Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to Put Their Fish on Board, become, finally...
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“You Heard Her, You Ain’t Blind”: Seeing What’s Said in Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 434–452.
Published: 01 November 2001
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l4 Kawash obsemes that metaphorical exchange operates as a significant threat to identity in Their
Eyes. The storm washes away the boundaries between humans and animals, so that itbecomes
difficult to spot the differences: Janie feels like a gator as she clings to the cow, the dog...
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