... to Brazilian literature and culture. Sooner or later these readings should compete and clash. To what extent are they incompatible? Machado himself was aware of the problem and dramatized its ironies, outlining unexpected perspectives. Former Colonies: Local or Universal? Roberto Schwarz...

... expanding group of business-oriented university students. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Barbauld , Anna Laetitia . “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing.” 1810. The British Novelists . Vol. 1 . London: Rivington, 1820 . 1 -59. Brown , Homer Obed . Institutions...

... to theorizing this new humanism, which would be based in a politics of interpersonal difference rather than in the assumption of human universals, Douglass practiced a form of cautious self-presentation that underwrote his politics. His tendency to draw a veil across certain pivotal scenes of intimate violence...

...Abraham Geil In this interview, Jacques Rancière clarifies a number of the central concepts and underlying polemics that run throughout his considerable body of work. Touching on key aspects of his intellectual formation, including his experience teaching at the University of Vincennes in Saint...

... in transforming the genre of the novel, the nature of literary studies, and the makeup of the academy at least since the early 1970s. This essay argues that while as a Nobel Laureate, as a distinguished university professor, as an exemplary literary and cultural critic, and as a legendary editor at Random House...

...Tom McCarthy Abstract This article was originally delivered as the keynote address at the fourth biennial conference of the Society for Novel Studies, University of Pittsburgh, May 13, 2016. What so appeals to me, as a novelist, about Lévi-Strauss is the way he places writing at the center of his...

... chart two divergent routes out of Eliot's reformulation of address. Together they reflect the tension in her work between theoretical inclusivity and high literary style—and between democratic principles of universal access and the stratification that in practice organizes a mass reading public...

...Torleif Persson Abstract This article begins by noting that recent debates about the relevance of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to contemporary American culture enact an opposition between historicism (the idea that the novel is a Jim Crow artifact) and universalism (the idea that it transcends...

... degree zero, where various possible explanations hang in equipoise with one another. Stories accordingly often end with some seemingly unrelated detail that serves to embed the entire tale within in a universe where stories, poems, and inscriptions, each equally unlikely, are forced to compete...

... (1995) alongside his recent collection of critical essays, Native American Fiction: A User's Manual (2006) and queries the extent to which Treuer's exploration of the universal nature of fiction meshes with various articulations of indigenous sovereignty and tribal independence. In doing so it examines...

... the novel imagines? And what kind of theory of the novel can best account for its prosaic quality? We talk about prosaic imaginaries in the plural because we take it as given that the novel form develops a plurality of ways of imagining the secular universe; and the concept of the imaginary also helps us...

... transporting a group of indentured servants to Mauritius. Incommensurability is thus the object of Ghosh's critique, part of the imperial ideology his text works to undermine through its development of a universal history that emerges out of its multiple narrative structure. Sea of Poppies represents less...

... © 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...

... © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Contributors christopher douglas is associate professor of English at the University of Victoria and author of A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism (2009). andrea cabajsky is associate professor...

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... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Contributors SUSAN Z. ANURAUE is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is co- editor of Atlarlfic Cross-Currelzts/Transntln~~tiq~iesand author of ThC Nutiori Writ Slrrall: Afvicnrl...