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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 60–78.
Published: 01 May 2018
... precisely what we see. —Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception For high modernists like Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, low vision , a term that encompasses a broad range of visual impairments resulting in partial eyesight, offers a means of contesting narrative's seemingly intrinsic desires...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 86–111.
Published: 01 August 2004
... –64. Benson , Peter . “Freud and the Visual.” Representations 45 ( 1994 ): 101 –16. Boone , Joseph Allen . “Charlotte Brontë, Villette.” Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . 33 –61. Borch-Jacobsen , Mikkel...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 354–356.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Stuart Burrows KENDALL JOHNSON, Henry James and the Visual (New York: Cambridge UP, 2007), pp. 262, cloth, $100.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Work Cited Bersani , Leo . A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature . New York: Columbia UP, 1984...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 424–443.
Published: 01 November 2011
... exhibitions, two of modernism's best-known ironists, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster, discovered that attending to the gaze these visual contact zones solicit—a detached scientific gaze that does not empathize with who or what one looks upon but instead encourages exhibition visitors to imagine themselves...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as Lukács (especially in his later work), who represent the novel form in terms of an abstract totality. In the context of Victorian visuality, I argue that it is precisely the abstract nature of photographic representation—its tendency to homogenize details and identities—that made possible the productions...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... reduction of character to idiomatic stereotypes with the author as master ventriloquist. More importantly, it led the way to the reinvention of the novel's acoustics. If traditionally subjugated by the domineering visual aesthetics of formal realism, which reduced voice to a rescindable soundtrack chained...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... labor in Peking (Beijing) and Bombay (Mumbai), respectively, the novels juxtapose the visual cultures of colonial modernization with everyday, arresting experiences of poverty and precarity on the city streets. In staging the untimely deaths of their rickshaw-pulling protagonists, they not only...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Emilio Sauri Abstract What might it mean to conceive of a work of art not simply as a mirror held up to society but as a means to visualize the abstract functions that make society look the way it does? And what can this tell us about the novel's social, political, and artistic potential today...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... characteristic of the “middling sort.” Its exemplary author is William Hogarth, whose Marriage A‐la‐Mode offers a signal instance of the forms of network‐style visualization seeking to make sense of the urban everyday, and whose Analysis of Beauty includes a surprisingly thorough account of the network‐like...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 343–367.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of the fever's spread gives Brown a stark, dramatic way of visualizing the unpredictability built into all such chains of transmission. Rather than a mark of nostalgia for an earlier age of “face-to-face” communication, this interest in casual and ephemeral channels of communication (and indifference to print...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
...—and investigate its wide-ranging visual and aural manifestations. I emphasize here how bodily awareness provides rumor with a domain where it can forge the verifiability it constitutively lacks in the realm of social knowledge. Finally, I turn to attacks on character and name, invoking comparisons with Hardy's...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Alexandra Neel This article examines the spaces still life in Frankenstein , arguing that Mary Shelley draws on this rich visual tradition from its humblest manifestations in the painting of food to its most conceptual in its explorations of light, human perception, and death. Following Norman...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 83–92.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dianne F. Sadoff Recent visual-culture scholars have sought to overturn the notion that a film adaptation should be “faithful” to its literary source. Yet fidelity aesthetics is a capacious concept that may not be theorized apart from cultural uses, historical situations, film production...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2000
...DANIEL NOVAK KATE FLINT, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 427, $74.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Reviews
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KATE FLJNT, The Victorians...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Corina Stan Philip Sicker , Ulysses, Film, and Visual Culture ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 ), pp. 276 , cloth, $105.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 Upon finishing Philip Sicker's delightful book Ulysses, Film, and Visual Culture , the reader...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
... specific points of connection between novels and a series of public spaces, and that specificity is both its strength and the source of some of its weaknesses. Gilmore's definition of various kinds of “looking” is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussion of Victorian visuality, as is her emphasis...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 356–357.
Published: 01 November 2004
...ANN ARDIS MAGGIE HUMM, Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003), pp. 244 + xii, cloth, $62.00, paper, $24.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Women and the Technologies...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of visual and literary
culture” (234), Lukasik charts a shift in cultural logic that relocated the idea of social dis-
tinction from genteel performance and disciplined moral action (exemplified in Benjamin
Franklin’s Autobiography) in the eighteenth century to the fixed categories of racial differ...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 154–157.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Shameem Black Rethinking the Romance Genre fluently brings together the materialist sensibilities of feminist cultural studies, the comparative strategies of postcolonial literary and visual studies, and the formal concerns of genre scholarship to offer a valuable humanistic approach...
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