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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Thinks … (2002) transform this problem of qualia into a formal problem of narrative style. Finally, this article shows that such conceptual transactions between cognitive science and contemporary literature move in both directions. While recent fiction has integrated the discourses and problems posed...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 284–300.
Published: 01 August 2014
... is one of reading Rancière with an analytic eye that finds insights into the conceptual armature of his theoretical interventions. Such a political methodology, however, is counterintuitive not only to the orientation of Rancière's political theory but also to his style of theoretical writing, which...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 302–303.
Published: 01 November 2005
...JOSEPH LITVAK D.A. MILLER, Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005), pp. 128, paper, $12.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as a compensation for suffering. Other books, such as Julian Barnes's Levels of Life (2013) and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk (2014), deploy an austere style as an expression of mourning, one that suggests an attempt at psychic mastery while simultaneously indexing an emotional turbulence untouched...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 21–38.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the most generative sites of potential collaboration between criticism and the novel. Circumscribing this potential, the article discovers three distinct but imbricated paranoid styles in Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist : the racialized paranoid imperative, paranoid double consciousness...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Emily Zubernis What is a minimalist novel? This essay approaches the question through readings of Henry James, a writer notorious for the complexity of his prose style. James's writing is never simple and rarely brief, of course, but it is often remarkably unproductive. Indeed, the very complexity...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 401–423.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of omission and circumlocution and depicts his characters in the act of discovering, formulating, and transgressing these rules for themselves as they try to figure out what to do and say about the fatal illness of the protagonist, Milly Theale. James's late style, often described as impenetrable and highly...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 200–217.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Sarah Comyn Abstract To address in economic terms what D. A. Miller calls “Austen Style” and Anne Toner, following G. H. Lewes, identifies as Jane Austen's “economy of art,” this article uses Austen's major novels and final unfinished manuscript to examine the changing relationship between...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to literary forms like the early novel, it instead identifies a strain of network thinking in the arts characteristic of the British eighteenth century. At this junction between network‐style thinking and the rise of complex forms of affiliation in the emerging middle classes, art forms appear...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
... text and audience that characterizes a mass reading public. Yet in Eliot this turn toward an expansive, inclusive form of address is also linked to an increasingly rarefied style. The essay concludes by examining how the aesthetically rarefied Henry James and the populist best seller Marie Corelli...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Katherine Kruger Abstract By foregrounding the difficulties with reading the child, Henry James's What Maisie Knew reconfigures the relationship between simplicity, transparency, and opacity to create reparative “styles of knowing” in the novel. This article proposes that the difficulty...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
... (Bette Davis) against the stream of popular, lowbrow novels written by her friend Millie Drake (Miriam Hopkins). This contest of literary style and production is closely adapted in George Cukor's 1981 film Rich and Famous . In Pedro Almodóvar's 1995 La flor de mi secreto , friction between literary...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of national myth rather than the production of it. That disruption is made possible by Ondaatje's use of the archive as a formal paradigm for the novel—one that is open-ended, unsynthesized, and shape shifting. Using the archive as structure and style, Ondaatje challenges national mythologies not so much...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 August 2014
...-Denis in the wake of May 1968 and his pivotal research in worker's archives, Rancière also reflects on the intimate relation between his critical project—above all its affirmation of axiomatic equality—and the development of his singular writing style. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 547–565.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the contrary—that literary and societal forms are different from each other only in degree or scale—is, in an especially leveling sense, to rescind crucial differences between the force of depiction and world of force, which every lucid nuance of Powers's unique narrative style would resist. Copyright © 2022...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of small talk, which emerges in her fiction as a self-accenting style of racial embodiment and a bold revision to the American novel of manners and to early twentieth-century etiquette manuals. Drawing on sociolinguistics and microsociology, this essay argues that Larsen unsettles the cultural tendency...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 272–291.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Matthew Hart Abstract This essay considers a late novel sequence by the British speculative fiction writer J. G. Ballard (1930–2009). Although Ballard is often celebrated as a great iconoclast, there is arguably no postwar novelist with a more recognizable style. The essay analyzes Cocaine Nights...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that refines an Orientalist market logic diagnosed by Graham Huggan as “the postcolonial exotic”—the article argues that MFA programs have encouraged a style of writing that centralizes the primacy of a global bourgeois/middle-class reader. Subsequently, the global South writer has become firmly ensconced...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... writer on arrival in Paris. James would, however, learn to turn such insecurities to his advantage by attending the Théâtre Français and paying close attention to the declamatory style of the melodramatic actors at a time when his first ambition had been to become a playwright. James tried his hand...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the literary system, in which any work of literature is enfolded—the functionally differentiated system that comprises writers, readers, genres, styles, the critical apparatus, and the publishing apparatus. As Firs stages the death of a small Maine community, it models its own death as a generic instance...
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