... de Martinha.” Obra completa .Vol. 3 . Rio de Janeiro: Aguilar, 1959 . 638 –39. Former Colonies: Local or Universal? Roberto Schwarz The starting point of my ongoing research was the acknowledgment of a wide dis- agreement. The international recognition of Machado de Assis’s work, which...

...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. Thank you for that generous introduction; and thank you for inviting me to contemplate, interrogate, or just...

...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...

... 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 for the...

... (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...

... 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 a...

... 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...

... 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...

... rapidly 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...

... 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...

... but never scandalized by this fact, Pettitt succeeds in shedding new light on the nexus of creativity, property, and value in the nineteenth century. DANIEL HACK University at Bufalo, State Universifyof Nao York ...

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... arrives at mystery precisely by creating an illusion of a highly dense quotidian reality. As Fisch demonstrates, in a com- plex (but lucid) analysis of Agnon's writings, Agnon ascends to the universal by way of the particular; he does not aspire to the universal by stepping outside of his Jewishness...

...CHERENE M. SHERRARD ALMA JEAN BILLINGSLEA-BROWN, Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women’s Fiction and Art (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), pp. 146, $27.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Conjuring the Folk Aesthetic ALMA JEAN BILLINGSLEA-BROWN...