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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 364–367.
Published: 01 August 2016
... is mostly mute on these refinements, which seem necessary in a field where much historical work is now being done on psychological, physiological, literary, and political understandings of action. As some readers of this review will know, Foucauldian theory has had a multigenerational grip on Victorian...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 May 2015
... many other such books and articles as a well-written and interesting contribution that makes good observations about a number of important authors and their works. By insisting that all of this fits under quantum theory, he overreaches what the theory can justly claim and, in the process, dilutes...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 August 2015
... specificity and national tradition. My account is necessarily abbreviated and selective for purposes of this article, but the focus on works from four different national contexts allows me to make two key points regarding the history and theory of the socialist bildungsroman. First, my selection of examples...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 362–373.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Vaughn Rasberry Abstract Reading British writer Francis Spufford's 2008 novel Red Plenty , a fictionalized account of life in the Soviet Union during the early Khrushchev years, this essay defends a bare theory of race against what it calls a novelistic theory of race. Whereas the latter—powerfully...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 129–146.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., 1669 . Lafayette , Marie-Madeleine . comtesse de. La Princesse de Clèves . 1678. Paris: Gallimard, 2000 . Martin , Wallace . Recent Theories of Narrative . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986 . Nicole , Pierre . Les Imaginaires et les visionnaires . Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1683...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 May 2004
...JONATHAN GREENBERG JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xxvii + 276, hardcover $85.00, paper, $23.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 The Descent of Theory
JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 510–514.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Cynthia Tolentino © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2009), pp. 384, cloth, $45.00. A Unified Field Theory for U.S. Ethnic Literature
christopher douglas, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 165–185.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 444–462.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., the phenomenology of the novel as form. This, I want to suggest, is very close to the kind of observation that the novel performs. There is also a deeper time that pertains to the way that the type exists in the world. Buffon's theory of an “interior mould” is well known; its operation, however, is subject...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Chloë Kitzinger Abstract This article argues that the early twentieth-century Dostoevsky criticism of Russian Symbolist thinkers, roughly contemporaneous with Henry James's New York Edition prefaces, laid the foundation for an alternative line of novel theory, engaged not with the novel's claim...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 244–261.
Published: 01 August 2024
... turns to a study of the formal features of the novel to distinguish what—and what does not—make novelistic characters believable and come to life. From here, the article proposes that Kierkegaard's theory of the novel is a theory that equates the novel with its most identifiable characteristic...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by accessing voices that have previously fallen on a tin ear (modernist theory of the novel), and the potentially telling fact of the simplification and contraction of novelistic prose throughout the twentieth century. Modern prose cannot be understood fully, I argue, without taking linguistic change...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 343–367.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Stacey Margolis This essay investigates an early instance of “network theory” in order to argue that such theories did not, as most scholars suggest, emerge exclusively in the digital age. Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn (1799–1800) attempts to theorize the information networks of the early...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 297–301.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Ivan Kreilkamp JACKSON TONY E. , The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2009 ), pp. 234 , cloth, $55.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Novel Theory for Homo Sapiens...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 190–195.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jonathan Arac Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel locates the novel at a particular juncture within the history of Western spirit but not in relation to any specific social, political, or economic history. Mikhail Bakhtin, influenced by Lukács and also by Friedrich Schlegel's theorization...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2010
... idea of the collection The Novel : “to make the literary field longer, larger, and deeper”—historically longer, geographically larger, and morphologically deeper than those few classics of nineteenth-century Western European “realism” that have dominated the recent theory of the novel (and my own work...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 53–59.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Kathy Alexis Psomiades Both the novel and anthropology think about and through marriage and kinship. Furthermore, many of us use theories that ultimately originate in anthropology to think about how marriage and kinship work in the novel. This essay argues that the historical emergence...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 311–317.
Published: 01 August 2009
...David Cunningham For Georg Lukács in his Theory of the Novel , if the abstraction inherent in the act of theorization itself is demanded in some way by the novel form, it is because in “the created reality” of the latter “totality can be systematized only in abstract terms.” Yet equally the novel...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Shai Ginsburg Notwithstanding these reservations, however, Bernard's Rhetorics of Belonging is a rich, insightful study of Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature as well as of postcolonial theory. Its greatest merit is that it links questions about Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the gay novel. Deploying novel theory and genre theory, this article argues that Dancer indicates how gayness transforms the novel and how the novel enables the lived experience of gay identity. Dancer , and the gay novel generally, complicate novel theory's assumption that the genre always privileges...
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