... endings function not as closure or completion but as thresholds to sustainability. This essay ends with two twentieth‐century fictions—Bessie Head's 1974 A Question of Power and Leslie Feinberg's 1993 Stone Butch Blues —that conclude by combining the pleasures of material predictability and plenty...

... to notice those metaphors, sustains the possibility of imagining and potentially creating other conceptions of history and community. In Helena María Viramontes's novel Their Dogs Came with Them , metaphors are paired with miracles, and both envision alternative worlds. For Viramontes, the neighborhood...

... and sustains the millennial Jane Austen mania. Adapting Austen's narratives more freely than did the 1990s versions, these films hope to capture the same crossover, multigenerational, mixed-sex audience yet also seek to market Austen for a new mass cohort of teenaged girls. Updating the stars' images...

... Allan Poe and participate in recent critical approaches to the father of detective fiction that read him in the context of the racial discourse of his day, and (2) critique the hierarchical thinking that both banishes comics to the realm of the “subliterary” and sustains racist ideology. In this sense...

... such assertion. The essay upholds a view of fiction as a mixed mode, one that crucially involves a constant engagement of nonfictional actualities. It concludes by sketching out some of the essential features of any more adequate account of the fictiveness of literary works and suggests that a more sustained...

... of politics is shaped first and foremost by a sustained inquiry into the poetics of sense, or an aisthesis (the experience of sense, sensation, and sensibility), I try to bridge the conceptual gap he establishes between the sensible of aesthetics and the sensible of politics. Using a postcolonial novel, Tahar...

... with the philosophy of history. Lukács's critical project has been sustained in the United States by Fredric Jameson, whose return to the thesis of The Historical Novel in the closing essay of The Antinomies of Realism (2013) is at odds with his revisitation of the Romantic genealogy of the pre-Marxist Theory...

... a seemingly autonomous and self-sustaining pattern of affective engagements that he, nevertheless, demonstrates are supported by a set of economic relations to which his form consistently, but obliquely, gestures. While the Ververs work to turn economics into affect, James uses aesthetic form to force our...

... through his own conflicting wartime experiences of fellow feeling, but it also offers a sustained reflection on the implications of a broader crisis in empathy on a narrative level around the Second World War. The article characterizes Zweig's particular approach to narrative empathy in terms...

... initiates a dialectical interplay of opposites—bringing together the familiar and the strange, the legible and the opaque, the boring and the fascinating. Although the narrator, Norton Perina, does everything he can to sustain this dialectic, the attenuated form of wonder that drives his curiosity...

.... These novels, which contrasted the profligacy and neglect of absentee English landlords with the idealized social harmony and economic self-sufficiency of the homegrown Protestant Ascendency, allowed an Anglo-Irish readership to imagine a self-sustaining body politic, invulnerable to an unevenly developed...

... dialogue with inanimate objects reflects the special problem that the incest taboo poses to debates between cultural and biological approaches to the study of human behavior. The sound of incest in Pierre thus can be seen to generate a metaphysical skepticism that does not frustrate desire but sustains...

...-critical High Modernism that they must acknowledge and appease if they are to parallel not only modernism's founding gesture but also its sustained creative production. © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Abraham Nicholas Torok Maria . The Shell and the Kernel...

... of homeostatic capitalist dynamics” (85). Morality becomes both capital's affective homologue and its blood: the one invites investigation into analogy, the other into lineage. We can similarly observe this dual account—of two phenomena related by blood and as homology—at the end of the chapter on sustainability...

... people of a similar class and place. How would the international theme of James's The Europeans play out in the more sustained exchanges possible through text-messaging, a dedicated blog site, or just old-fashioned e-mailing via a listserv? What most distinguishes digital cultural production from...

... sustained classical verisimilitude. In its place an egalitarian inclusiveness and sensory inexhaustibility became, from the late eighteenth century, the defining quality of a new aesthetic regime. Undoubtedly, this is a revisionary account offering quite new ways of approaching realism and modernism...

... diminished plot on which Lee can sustain himself only by constant agricultural labor. As a result, Lee's wandering ends not with his resuming a rightful title to a landed estate but instead with unending cultivation through which he establishes—and continually reestablishes—a Lockean claim to soil that, like...

... of the bustling traffic and exchange that charac- terize city life. Marcus's new book (her first-she is also the author of important essays on Jane Eyre and on theories of rape and rape prevention) bears out the potential of that essay by offer- ing a sustained reconsideration of domesticity...

... of chance into a force “as despotic as” totalitarian control (58). Notably, this occurs in the context of a political trial—the classic perversion of the liberal rule of law. An exploration of legal arbitrariness might, therefore, allow for a more sustained reading of Coover's novel. Because he focuses so...

... of subjectivity and disavow it, sustaining an unstable illusion of the immaterial heart of selfhood. The relationship between subjects and objects was more permeable and unstable, she argues, than mainstream narratives of Enlightenment ration­ ality and empiricism allow: “In an age of Enlightenment, things...