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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in the wake of Michel Foucault. I also explore Schantz’s discussion of the Turing test, an important thought experiment (and actual test) in the development of contemporary artificial intelligences. While Schantz’s readings cannot be called philo- sophical, they do point to some interesting problems...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2020
...” as an organizing principle in sensation and mystery fiction, including novels by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (13). The third chapter takes up Alan Turing's idea of “the imitation game” to illuminate character construction in Anthony Trollope. The fourth chapter discusses works by Thomas Hardy and Henry...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2021
... superiority), which has funded most of the research in the field since its creation in 1958. Two of the founding texts in the field, Alan Turing's test for machine intelligence and Masahiro Mori's theory of the uncanny valley, illustrate Rhee's central argument. In the first example, the imitation game...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 136–138.
Published: 01 May 2001
... itself from the cul- ture of which it is part. Indeed, Rowe's attempt to "transvalue the cultural heritage of US democracy for the sake of greater inclusiveness and thus justice" (216)-an ambition he associates with W.E.B. Du Bois-has the effect of introducing an implicitly utopian dirnen- sion...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... Walters contends, for example, that for Edward Glissant creolization represents a return not to lost origins so much as to points of entanglement, she suggests that Cliff's novel Abcng portrays an indigenous burial ritual as a practice that references the multiple cu1- tures of both the slaves...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 336–339.
Published: 01 August 2013
... private feeling but also the circulation of ener- gies in an affective community. Eliot, so often read for her detachment from machine cul- ture, represents interiority as a steam engine about to boil over; she “views the psyche both as a mechanical site under pressure and as located in a coordinated...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 357–360.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., including his “Postmodern/Post-Secular: Contemporary Fiction and Spirituality” [1995] and “Post-Secular Culture: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Theory and Litera- ture” [1997 McClure’s approach to Pynchon is angled through the tension between, on one hand, the spirituality he sees in Pynchon’s...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2013
... not in “sober opposition to phi- losophy” (3), but its difference should not be overlooked. It would be too simple to label litera- ture, as some deconstructive literary critics have suggested in the past, as the mere “Other” of philosophy, to consider it as occupying a wider region than philosophy...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 466–469.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Bloom (to name just a few). Let me be clear: there are certainly distinctive elements to the high middlebrow cul- ture of the late twentieth century. The algorithmic curators of Amazon and Netflix, for ­example—like the evolving delivery systems of broadcasting, cable, and live streaming...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2012
...] to the principles of less voluntary and more corporeal discourses of moral character,” seduction narratives relocate “the visibility of distinction from the genteel, yet voluntary, performances of the body to the permanent, involuntary, and unalterable fea- tures of the face” (76). Lukasik offers a thorough...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 419–423.
Published: 01 November 2000
... to recognize "the most banal fea- ture of our ordinary lives . .. and that is simultaneity: not simply that events happen simul- taneously in the space around us, but [that they] are happening simultaneousiy in the space that is our own bodies" (221). They need to embrace their multiple selves...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... James Fulton, the father of Intuitionism. Whereas the elevator invented by Elisha Otis in the 1850s began “the First Elevation,” providing the infrastruc- ture that would make modern cities possible, the Black Box will enable “the sec- ond elevation,” which will “deliver us from the cities we suffer...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 496–500.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., and social developments that transcend those events (Medovoi). Georgiana Banita’s Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture after 9/11 can be seen as part of this tendency to relate post-9/11 literature to broader discussions about the function of litera- ture. In the book’s introduction...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the most well-known. Even when the various anthologies dispute textual selection within and theorizing of the tradition, they concur that African American litera- ture forms a separate tradition both literarily and temporally and that it ought to be anthologized separately. They all also identify Lucy...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 323–324.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of speech acts, in the ways that speaking creates a representation that defines a group, which then responds to that speaking and thereby inflects it. He does however remind us of the anachronistic na- ture of supposed givens concerning same-sex sexualities, such as modern-day markers of "out...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): i–iii.
Published: 01 May 2010
... © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Contributors franco moretti is Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Litera- ture at Stanford University. His books include Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
... fiction since the 1970s as a subset of postmodern cul- ture; to the contrary, such equivalences force to the forefront questions about the tenuousness of both formalist and periodizing definitions of postmodemism. Let me explain, through a closer look at some specific instances of this sort...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Doorknobs probably seem very far from the question of the novel. But I propose to borrow the notion of affordances to think about narrative length. That is, rather than asking what fea- tures narratives have, I would ask instead what potentialities lie latent—though not always obvious—in the form...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
...) is an “aesthetics of astonishment”—a desire to draw on images of pain, violence, and corporeal disfigurement indebted to the sensational gambits of early twentieth-century popular cul- ture (17). Experimental fiction and photography of the 1930s drew on the lurid tactics of the broader popular culture...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 363–364.
Published: 01 November 2004
... goes on to address other kinds of affect in litera- ture and film. She discusses the conjunction of cringing and crying that some feel at weddings-and while reading or watching enactments of the marriage plot, such as Pretty Woman. She explores the relationship between the thrill...