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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Gefühl became predominant. Might we consider this a change in the structure of feeling? The entries for “ Empfindung ” and “ Gefühl ” in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's dictionary (1854) describe Gefühl as more objective and Empfindung as more subjective, suggesting that a preference for objective terms...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
... sociology have raised awareness of how institutions administer cultural production, far less scholarly attention has been paid to the ways institutions administer feelings or the ways feelings give rise to new institutional structures. 2 What these critical trends make clear is the unique capacity...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
... feelings of loss and grief spur Zach to act on conviction and mobilize support for a cause. The narratives appear in three versions of Telephone , which the publisher released simultaneously. In a remarkable coincidence, this trivalent fiction limns summer 2020’s structure of feeling, where the strain...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of literary character and liberal personhood. Within the matrix of social statistics, the ability to think like a mass—to feel and express ideas and affect formulated at the level of large numbers—became integral to the structure of opinion and decision in the mid-Victorian era. 3 In this light, I read...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to competing values. Or to put this another way: Plotz aims to reveal Eliot’s feelings toward objects; Logan seeks to isolate the structures that make feeling toward objects possible in the first place. It strikes me that these two modes of reading are in keeping with two very different approaches...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 18–44.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and their internalization. And I also want to move away from Tess as person—and even from Tess as figure and figuration, as in Silverman's reading—to Tess as character, focusing on Hardy's emphasis on laying bare the narrative structures that comprise his fiction. 5 When Hardy has Tess feel watched, he is not revealing...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 444–460.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Williams calls a “structure of feeling”: the social, cultural, sensory, and affective paradigm that “operates in the most delicate and least tangible parts of our activity” and, as such, is not easily recoverable or reproducible across historical periods ( Long 104 ). Kathy's musings suggest that even...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 214–234.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., like Lady Russell, consider the community sur- rounding Kellynch their home, suggests that a deeper structural problem creates this lack of sympathy. Communities founded on location prove insular and un- able to connect even to proximate outsiders, much less to feel the concerns of a social...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 May 2018
... the volume might have been “Against Infrastructure.” Not focused on infrastructure, then, Jagoda pursues instead “the ordinary affects of networked life-worlds”—fancy language for how people feel and experience networks (7). This produces a number of difficulties, not least being the unwitting promulgation...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the structure of Jacques Der- rida’s Writing and Difference, part 1 includes six early stand-alone interpretations of specific works by Herman Melville, Antonin Artaud, Lautréamont, Gérard de Nerval, Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and Joris-Karl Huysmans. Part 2 moves away from literary texts and takes...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... their physical contours may remain stable, the emotional lives of these structures are anything but. Like Woolf's haunted house whose “pulse” beats “safe, safe, safe” when the ghostly couple resumes residence, these estates, houses, and boarding-rooms have hearts, and their feelings are contingent upon...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of anticolonial affects: contempt, hatred, disloyalty, and disaffection. A powerful disciplinary apparatus, the law bound language, feeling, and political action together into a formidable, if vague and incoherent, knot. In this regard, Section 124a serves as an emblem of the fraught and often contradictory...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 May 2004
... as Vernacular Modernism.” Film Quarterly 54 : 1 ( 2000 ): 10 –22. Hendler , Glenn . Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001 . Horkheimer , Max , and Theodor Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment . Trans...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 308–321.
Published: 01 August 2018
... between Charlotte and the Prince preexists the text, and so the structures in which they find themselves do not so much create their feelings as allow those that already exist an avenue of expression. 10 Further, the basic drama of the novel rests on the difficulty a father and daughter have...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 363–364.
Published: 01 November 2004
...BEVERLY LYON CLARK ROBYN R. WARHOL, Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms (Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2003), pp. 148, $22.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Why Not Cry Me a River? ROBYN R. WARHOL, Having a Good Cry: Effeminate...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 289–291.
Published: 01 August 2015
...-Century British Fiction ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2012 ) , pp. 224, cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 What does it feel like to read a novel? For Georges Poulet, it feels like lending out one's mind to another: in reading, he writes, “I am thinking...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to reassure the reader that the rest of the narrative is “real,” are themselves structured by the very same conventions to be found in the “real” narrative out of which they appear to break away. This continuity in convention supports Jaffe's claim that the realm of daydream and the realm of reality...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 270–286.
Published: 01 August 2021
... set not one but three examples. The idea that Heathcliff is a diabolical disrupter of happiness, a source of tears, terror, aggression, violence (both emotional and physical), and death, is an existential and structural building block of the narrative. Heathcliff not only instills negative feeling...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 313–317.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and Stephen Pinker, may be one term of art for such coziness, but it is no friend to human emotion, let alone the humanities. Then again, cozy relationships, simple happiness, and comfortable feelings more generally provoke Gross, leading him to investigate how “the terms of our comfort take shape polemically...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 466–482.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of personal experience that broad structural theories do not account for in any satisfactory way. It is legitimate because one’s experience of it is so certain. How can we doubt what we feel to be true when it spurs us again and again? This is the poetic reply to Alan’s insistence that the economic...