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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in Greek tragedy was to mediate the relations between characters onstage and a wider, unrepresented audience and polity. 9 As a mode of collective representation, choruses, and not only tragic ones, are uniquely performative, as Steven Connor describes: “[This] collectivity cannot be thought...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 234–252.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Kate Marshall This essay makes the case for a reconsideration of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy within the history of the modernist novel and its medial legacies by attending to the complex relationship enacted throughout the text between material forms and structures of interiority...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the plot to restore the significance of tragedy in the novel without explaining that tragedy through her violation. By recovering the religious significance of conversion in the text as crucial to a structure of extralegal justice on which the events of the novel hinge, the essay argues that Tess's crime...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 104–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jack Dudley Abstract Ecological catastrophe has challenged the contemporary novel to find forms that convey the scale and affective conditions of life amid looming planetary devastation. While sincere tragedy has been the dominant mode and tone of the novel's approach, recent scholarship has...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 400–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
... at the historical moment when the phrase losing face was entering common usage in English, The Monster confronts the invention and spread of this figure (and others) in novelistic terms, as a post-Reconstruction small-town tragedy. Ultimately, the processes by which phrases are made and come to preside...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Anna Kornbluh There could scarcely be a novel more searingly critical of social contradictions than Thomas Hardy's last, and arguably the last Victorian one, Jude the Obscure . Between its Pauline epigraph (“the letter killeth”) and its unforgettable tragedy (“done because we are too menny”), Jude...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 May 1999
...ERIK DUSSERE CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR, The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women’s Fiction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 288, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Intercultural Transmission
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 5–23.
Published: 01 August 2004
... characters and
attributes of tragedy, comedy, and heroic drama. I want to stress that while co-
medic rakes, tragic tyrants, and the super-heroes of heroic drama are all discrete
character types, they are remarkably similar in their portrayal of a "heroic" mas-
culinity: they are all "Pretenders" who...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 152–157.
Published: 01 May 2012
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tragedy. The examples above notwithstanding, Macpherson’s perspective is a profoundly
feminist one, the title of Harm’s Way both a conscious tribute and a correction to Andrea
Dworkin’s In Harm’s Way. Losing the preposition opens a wider range of moral possibili-
ties for harm (and blame) than...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 196–209.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the square angles of French gardens and
French tragedies. But there is more to this than the matter of straight or curved
lines. The problem concerns the kind of thread that can be drawn by words assem-
bled in the form of a fiction. More precisely, it is about the possibility of combin-
ing two powers...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... The painful truths of existence, so goes the consensus, should not be disguised or evaded. Indeed, literary works that present reality as anything other than brutal and grim are analogous to those well-wishers who tactlessly try to console survivors of unimaginable tragedies with useless bromides about...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Tragedy , and Edward P. Jones's The Known World . What unites these texts is what Weinstein disarmingly calls their “wobbly” hold on temporal sequence, which “usually takes the form of a character marking out units of time in the face of experiences that make that impossible” (4, 6). Weinstein's patient...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 385–392.
Published: 01 August 2016
... . Vidal-Naquet Pierre . “ The Shields of Heroes: Essay on the Central Scene of the Seven against Thebes .” Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece , by Vernant Jean-Pierre and Vidal-Naquet Pierre . Trans. Lloyd Janet . New York : Zone Books , 1990 . 273 – 300 . Whitmarsh Tim...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 398–402.
Published: 01 August 2016
... Fourier, and Théodule-Armand Ribot, as well as lesser influences such as Alexander Bain or George Henry Lewes. Then, with a dialogic attention to the structural dimensions of Hardy's literary texts—narratorial and poetic perspective, character, and key modes of irony, elegy, and tragedy—she demonstrates...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 467–473.
Published: 01 November 2009
... uncomprehending before the very object that we read-
ers understand contains him. His ignorance before the magical book is mildly
comical, but the comedy is close to tragedy.
The final pages of Achebe’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, contain perhaps the
most famous literary example of an uncomprehending...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 496–500.
Published: 01 November 2013
... admits the impossibility of adequately representing tragedy, while at the
same time it advises us to internalize “the pain of others” and to “internalize it on our own
terms” (74). A similar debate about representation, truthfulness, and ethical responsibility
emerged with regard to Spiegelman’s...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Letter as exhibit A for this way to greatness.) A second is the up-from story, the rise of some socially representative figure whose individual history reveals “the promises and pitfalls of the American dream” ( An American Tragedy , The Great Gatsby , Native Son , Invisible Man ). A third road...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the
lessons that Lily’s demise offers. This understanding of the tragedy of Lily’s fall
distills longstanding Enlightenment notions of the human, knowledge produc-
tion, and their relation to the forces of capital: the human stands apart from the
material forces of the market; reason operates...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... Eugenides’s parodic use of the conventions
of Greek tragedy in the novel, usually suggesting its connection to the Greekness
of the novel’s protagonist and as a strategy for humor and irony. But while this
cultural reference might add, so to speak, “ethnicity” to the narrative, this is itself
parodic...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 121–126.
Published: 01 May 2018
... prescribed the genre appropriate to each character according to social class, race, or gender (in Aristotle's words, epic and tragedy for “characters of a higher type”; comedy for “characters of a lower type”). It would have been impossible, according to such conventional rules of decorum, for a lowly...
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