... 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 The...

... 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...

...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. Copyright © 2018 by Tom McCarthy 2018 contemporary novel cartography resistance Thank you for...

... 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. My...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... used to forward certain agendas 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 ...

... interdis- ciplinary thinking and discourse at its best. MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE, George Mason University ...

... is calculated as a certain quantity of money. As a annmodity, a ma- hogany table "has" no value proper to itself; its value is established through its relation- ship to the universally equivalent form of value, money. Abstracted hmitself, the thing is emptied out, and into this emptiness ideas...

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... universalism--of peoples belonging to a human family of shared origins. Where others saw only insurmountable difference and alterity, both Evan- gelicals and anthropologists detected kinship across national and racial boundaries. While acknowledging that both groups labored, literally and intellectually...

... for anyone interested in the gothic, which is to say anyone interested in literary and cultural modernity. MARC REDFIELD, Claremont Graduate University ...

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... straightforward political goal, but rather as a vexed and shifting aspect of sociality itself. For this reason alone Inexpressible Privacy is well worth reading. STACEY MARGOLIS, University of Utah ...

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