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... of representing the material world and taking on a materiality of its own, as language marked by aspiration and potentiality. This “projective realism” is epitomized by Ahmed Ali's 1940 novel Twilight in Delhi. Twilight , by offering an interpretation of history as a performance, a series of snapshots...

... of David Levinsky (1917) by Abraham Cahan, Twilight Sleep (1927) by Edith Wharton, and Henry James's The Wings of the Dove (1902Fwith an eye to the ways they "elaborate new forms of intellectual pres- tige" by representing "whatever category of experience a given literary work posits as the most...

... Adams. “Ashley Greene: Her Twilight Costars Have Gotten Tons of Fame— Now She Wants to Take a Big Bite Out of Hollywood.” Seventeen June–July 2010: 140–44. Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. Zunshine, Lisa. “Mind Plus: Sociocognitive Pleasures of Northanger Abbey...

... that, with the decline of the idea of modernity and of the modern individual's defining characteristic, historicism, “the same decline is beginning to affect our idea of Progress and, as a result, our vision of time, of history and of ourselves.” “We are witnessing,” Paz proclaims, “the twilight of the future...

... entered a twilight for some time already. It now seems that plasticity is slowly but surely establishing itself as the paradigmatic figure of organization in general” (59). Fixity has given way to flux. Nothing can be written anymore, for one is living in an era of endless fungibility...

... condemns self-help in a way that compares to her condemnations of literary modernism. That involves taking aim at the “the cultishness, the primitivism, the fetishism of obscurity and difficulty, the linguistic bravado, even the decadence of male ‘genius’” Blum observes (121–22). Wharton's novel Twilight...

... moments where some reptilian part of the reader's brain might start to anticipate their animation despite protests from the frontal lobes. As critics, we like to swoon over authors who get us considerably past this point of barely suspended disbelief. Ward insists on the equal interest of the twilight...

... and noncommittal about its ontological affiliation. “Goldhaired” girls twirl around him as morning, noon, and twilight hours, their gestures carving out a most spacious day. June 16, 1904. Tormented by thorny thoughts, a young man contemplates the dioramic view from the Martello tower—both a panopticon...

... the biochemical approach. Like the Tourette’s patients Oliver Sacks has written about, he has tried the available drugs, like Haldol, and finds them a mixed bag: the tics dissolve, but “[t]he chemicals slowed my brain to a morose crawl . . . dimming the world (or my brain—same thing) to twilight” (83...

... Jameson’s influentialPostmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) or Andrew Hoberek’s more recent work The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post–World War II American Fiction and White Collar Work (2005), con- temporary critics reaffirm Lukács’s claim that the novel recapitulates...

... and 1960s); Don Mattera's Gone with the Twilight: A Story of Sophiatown ( 1987 ); and Miriam Tlali's Footprints in the Quag: Stories and Dialogues from Soweto ( 1989 ), all written in the apartheid period. The theme is less pronounced in the postapartheid period, but see Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to My...

... imperial cycles at which I have only hinted suggest that attending to the twilight of the British world system might provide analytical purchase on, and resources for understanding, the waning days of the American phase of hegemony and vice versa. 3 But for observers of art, it bears noting...

... novel | fall 2011 same-sex love story, bringing lesbian fiction out of the pulp world of the so-called twilight woman and into the daylight of mainstream respectability.14 In this regard Highsmith’s novel formed part of a larger mid-century effort, also represented by periodicals like...

... at another moment of transition, in the twilight years of the long twentieth century. 18 I have speculated that realism wars can be mapped onto tectonic shifts in the history of global Anglophone hegemonies in the modern world system. More specifically, antirealist discourse may be one language...

... . Fekete , John . The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan . London: Routledge, 1977 . Fisher , Philip . Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1985 . Foley , Barbara . Radical...

... is not officially a character4 and in fact gives every impression of being the author—the same ‘‘I’’ of the preface seems to be the ‘‘I’’ who narrates. The effect of this is that the novel takes place in a kind of twilight zone of authorial creation/observation. But the narra- tor, because she is officially...

... to conclude. We tell each other: but our base is not fixed; which of the two will be right? I see a past in ruins and a future in embryo; the one is too old, the other too young. Everything is in a state of confusion. But this means wanting only noon or midnight; it means not understanding twilight...

... macroeconomic patterns (from the long fifteenth century of the Genoese to the American long twentieth century that is now in its twilight). According to Arrighi, a long century begins when profits accumulate over and above what can be gainfully reinvested in the expansion of trade and production. As liquidity...

..., when “prospectors give way to dams and dredges and company mines,” a phase that requires a new “code of justice” to be enforced by “civilized men” (133–34). This account presents the colony as a liminal zone, poised in a “twilight” of change “between the old world and the new” (135)—a moment when norms...

... pyramid is defined by its absence: the van der Luydens “stood above all of them, [but] had faded into a kind of super-terrestrial twilight, from which only two figures impressively emerged; those of Mr. and Mrs. Henry van der Luyden” ( Age 95). Ellen hits on something profound when she wonders whether...