... choices in radically minimal and/or highly codified settings. I focus here on the most prevalent cultural form in the microeconomic mode, the survival game, as manifested in Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel Gone Girl (2013). By examining the novel's use of the survival game as a response...

... in which “process” or movement in time is not goal oriented, where the goal is immanent to the process and where the notion of closure is irrelevant rather than subverted or unattainable. I propose to call such plots “narratives of survival” because they tend to foreground the continuous, in principle...

...Christopher Herbert The key principle of Victorian cultural anthropology, the doctrine of obsolescent “survivals,” had as its Gothic counterpart the implication that atavistic residues of early human stages could persist in modernity and might at any moment unexpectedly resurface. One crystallizing...

... endurance of unchangeable existential conditions. She instead repurposes the tragicomic for the ecological and political needs of the contemporary to produce “survival laughter,” an attitude that recognizes the tragic conditions of catastrophe but simultaneously uses comedy to protect the psyche from...

... to hold starvation at bay, to achieve an always precarious subsistence or survival. Gissing depicts circular, inescapable patterns in which one writes to earn money in order to survive just long enough to write more to buy more—never enough—food. His novels insistently ponder, and seem to try...

..., in which a citizen of the past emerges living into the present, or someone survives his or her “native” historical era to become a kind of temporal exile in the present. The gothic has been characterized as the eruption of the past into the present and the past in these narratives is indeed “undead...

... homunculi constitute a quantitative, probabilistic, and nonsychronous form of change, creating new adaptive niches while permitting the partial survival of prior forms of life. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 Proust In Search of Lost Time genies biopolitics francophone novel We...

... realist novel is particularly interesting in this respect, since it took the question of ongoing material survival especially seriously and used endings to mark a shift from narratable, unstable plotted action to stable routines that extend predictably into the future. In these plots of precarity, happy...

... in Jack London's socialist fiction: a general strike that would withdraw our maintenance of the world in favor of more plural and livable affiliations; a nonapocalyptic end to the world that might offer a means of surviving the Anthropocene. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

..., or other, even though their worlds are quite rich. But Dickens's minor characters define the ingenuity of counterintuition, pointing toward a suppressed energy that belies the flatness of a minor character. Drawn with care, these characters build alternative, codependent ways of surviving on the edges...

... that allows the white majority to give its silent approval of racism. Arguably, 1000 Coils of Fear is not just about the terror of everyday Black life but also about Black life's endurance: the narrator's ability to survive despite the ever‐present terror of white supremacy, her ability to create new life...

... is sometimes relational: survival compacts between small groups and communes in which labor and resources are shared. But just as often, postapocalyptic fiction depicts the struggle to survive as brutal and competitive, everyone out for themselves. Celebrating postapocalyptic life as pastoral and harmonious...

..., Essence) in order to assert a constitutive finitude that is “absolutely without exception” (17). Hägglund argues that Derrida shows how the logic of survival—that there is nothing outside time, which, as such, is always divided between being no longer and being not yet—is the “unconditional condition...

... preferences that might ground agency or will) but simply takes the fact that he will do a risky job as proof that he must be. Never does such a theory acknowledge that a risk-averse person might have to take such a job simply in order to survive, since acknowledging that would contravene the fantasy that free...

... of Henry Vincent Yorke (1905–73). While Green's fiction is concerned with the “everyday mishaps of ordinary life” ( Breit 29 ), his prose is so highly idiosyncratic that he has been viewed not merely as a “writer's writer” but as a “writer's-writer's writer” ( Green, Surviving 235 ). His plots...

... geography of capitalist modernity, social reproduction was perhaps even less so. For black creoles—New World Africans who did survive and have children in the colony—social relations were constructed and sustained in the shadow of a plantocratic regime of ‘‘social death’’ imposed upon slaves—a regime...

... and circumstances are concerned. As she struggles to confess her belief in something, anything, she tells herself, “ your life depends on this! ” (221). In “At the Gate,” Coetzee has written a situation in which belief becomes the condition of survival and has forced it upon a character who insists that her way...

... they divide, they struggle, one against one, group against group, for survival, position, power. They remember old hates and generate new ones, they create chaos and ntirture it. They kill and kill and kill.. . . [Ulntil one of them becomes a leader most will follow, or a tyrant most fear...

... subject” between two deaths—the death of the social symbolic order and the death of the socially mandated subject. See The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Jacques Derrida turns to Paul Celan’s poetry to elucidate a distinction between complete witnesses, who did not survive...

.... If you want to survive here, you must relearn collectivism and retrieve the dignity of your race!” (204). Once again, Liu's ambitions far exceed depicting an allegorical US-Chinese space race; he aims to reveal something more essential about how the necessary antagonism behind all political life appears...