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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 304–310.
Published: 01 August 2009
... Trilby that so enthralled readers make women's sexual awakening dependent on their falling into dream states that override consciousness to highlight the body and unleash its innate desires. Revolving around depraved seductions, these somnambulist thrillers help orchestrate modern women's sexual turn...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that mega-urbanization takes. The essay concentrates on two recent novels suggestive of such engagement: Nnedi Okorafor's 2014 alien invasion thriller Lagoon and, in the essay's concluding section, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ's 2009 crime novel Nairobi Heat . They are brought into the light by Ishmael and his friends...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the material and formal processes that mediate our moment of fading geopolitical hegemony: the way of seeing proper to our drone era. The essay reads artworks about surveillance by multimedia artist Trevor Paglen; bestselling thrillers about drone war by Mike Maden and others; and technofetishistic novels...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2021
... genres, some recognizable—thrillers and spy fiction—and some new: the Muslim misery memoir. Perhaps the most interesting and revealing chapter is the one that brings together the reading of Updike's The Terrorist , McEwan's Saturday , and Amis's collection of essays, The Second Plane...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 210–225.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the opening clearly designates the novel as a thriller, the account of what has led Nick and Amy to this pass is closer to social realism in tone, with a specific emphasis on the social effects of contemporary capital. We learn that Amy's character has been shaped by the fact that, since her early childhood...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of her chapters addresses one subgenre of geopolitical fiction: the “digital migrant novel” (23) that replaces earlier narratives of traumatic migration with a more satiric take on the simultaneously dispersed and wired world; the “Peace Corps thriller” in which American do-gooders come face to face...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., a hockey stick, and a novel from a select
list that ranges from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to a John Grisham thriller. Young
students enter a higher level of literacy through the novels they read as part of
their English language and literature classes. They then begin to read newspapers...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 240–264.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of modernist writing (thriller; travelogue) is a
tactic in what we might call Ishiguro's "neo-modernismthe conscription of structural
elements like the novel of consciousness and unreliable narration for projects that embed
contemporary concerns not in postmodem simulations or knowing...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 293–296.
Published: 01 August 2011
....
Consider this example of how an adrenaline aesthetic fuels the argumentative engine
of Duffy’s book: a chapter titled “Thriller: The Incitement to Speed” brings together an
unlikely range of texts. A discussion of the historical novelty of the roller coaster leads
to a reading of Marc Augé’s theories...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 157–161.
Published: 01 May 2023
... expectations,” Thomas makes her lone turn to the novel through the airport thrillers of the former national security advisor Richard Clarke (76). By applying conventional structure to formally similar but informationally varied diegetic content, these novels train readers “to understand the future...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 121–125.
Published: 01 May 2011
... rhythm of
American melodramas and detective thrillers” (68); it was a style that departed radically
from every type of theatrical naturalism, but more important it challenged the very notion
that modernity still allowed for the “somber interiority of bourgeois psychology” in the
first place (68...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 359–363.
Published: 01 August 2016
... a closer reading as “an object of aesthetic consumption” (116) than do many of the fictional texts—suggesting that it “reads more like a political thriller than the bureaucratic white paper a bipartisan committee with a $15 million budget and a staff of over eighty might be expected to produce” (115...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and into the so-called first world, becoming
part of present-day reality there—a reality emphasized through the novel’s claims
to biographical truth. A related effect is created in popular novels like Tess Ger-
ritsen’s bestseller Vanish, a mass-market mystery-thriller about women trafficked
from Eastern...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2017
...,” as a collection of forms whose common core it is almost impossible to define ( Pérez Firmat ). Members of the family include the bildungsroman, the Künstlerroman , the roman fleuve , the thriller, the family saga, the Western, the romance, the novella, the picaresque novel, the epistolary novel, the Gothic...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The pastiche of “literary” genres in Cloud Atlas lacks stylistic flair, while its simulation of a popular genre, in the “airport thriller” sequence, is perfunctory to the point of cynicism. The central future-history episodes are more convincing (and less condescending to their models), although they do...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 157–165.
Published: 01 August 2018
... expression in the same optical rhetoric that serves as the theater for cyberwarfare in popular “drone thrillers” or how Teju Cole does the same thing when he uses the Twitter platform to sabotage the conclusions of classic novels with 140-character “drone stories.” Saint convinces me that Cole's Open City...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 158–180.
Published: 01 August 2004
...: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991 . Edwards , P.D. Some Mid-Victorian Thrillers: The Sensation Novel, Its Friends and Its Foes . St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1971 . Elam , Diane . “White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
... form. At first blush, the conspiracy
plot-traditionally understood as a vulgar or stunted attempt to represent the
social totality-seems more suited to a Cold-War pulp thriller than to the art
novel. Nonetheless, a powerful current of realism emerges from this fantastic
narrative when...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... politics, and a provincial nationalism ( Anjaria and Anjaria 190 ). For such critics, his popularity confirms his mediocrity: “It is in the ‘mythological thrillers’ and positive-thinking fictions,” writes Pankaj Mishra , “that a post-1991 generation that doesn't even know it is lost fleetingly...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 272–291.
Published: 01 August 2018
... development of a speculative generic hybrid combines elements of dystopian realism, detective fiction, and the thriller. These are all generic traditions in which Ballard has experimented before—so, in this sense, the programmatic nature of the late cycle is not just a matter of the qualities these five...
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