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...Fabio L. Vericat Abstract This essay proposes to consider how The American (1875) is symptomatic of Henry James's elocutionary insecurities about the demands the European nineteenth-century novel placed on the authorial voice—crucially aggravated by the American stutter that accompanied the young...

... & Giroux, 1980 . On Voice JOHN BRENKMAN I intend in this essay on "voice" in the novel to sharpen the difference between narrative theory and novel theory as antagonistic genres of criticism. Their antagonism is not of course absolute. The development...

...JAMES BUZARD IVAN KREILKAMP, Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005), pp. 264, cloth, $85.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Hearing Voices IVAN KRIXKANP, Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 20051...

... to “find your voice” through the stylistic development of what I am calling “vernacular anglophone realism.” The turn to the non-anglophone vernacular continues the postwar tradition of ethnic ventriloquism for a mainly bourgeois Western audience but also supplements a new non-Western, middle-class...

... (and the Domestication of the Savage Mind); the road through the forest as a symbol of writing and its power; and the solitary man, shut up in a closet, who attends to a disembodied voice but is distracted by noises from outside as a metonym for the experience of reading. While Achebe expresses a deep ambivalence about...

...Meltem Gürle Be it the top-down secularism of the Kemalist reforms or the authoritarian conservatism of the present Islamist government, the political will in Turkey has persistently ignored the individual, the most valuable component of democratic modernity. The Turkish bildungsroman voices...

... at the same time. The result is a vision of urban communities in which varieties of humans and nonhumans make their presence felt and their voices heard—a more-than-human democracy that turns the idea of the Anthropocene away from its uniquely human focus. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

... of emancipation take him to propose a biological substratum as the irreducible site of a political affirmation. Thus Arguedas provides a thoroughly developed notion of positive biopolitics that has the potential to ground other engagements of colonial voices with the larger sphere of political domination. ©...

.... For the laconically inclined, however, I offer the following one-word summary of Boxall's argument for the value of the novel: voice . Boxall never bothers to cross out voice typographically like this—the whole sous rature thing being hard to pull off in our ostensibly “post-theory” moment—but it is an apt...

... is the Malay imperative “eat,” and the speaker is (after Antonio Gramsci's ascription of social exclusion to indigenous peoples) a “subaltern” woman. Upon these two words, Napolin sets forth her argument, which nominally reaffirms Conrad's formulation of novelistic voice but, more ambitiously, proposes...

...NAOMI MANDEL BRIAN RICHARDSON, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 166, cloth, $55.95, paper, $24.95, CD, $9.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Unusual Techniques B~NRIMAIZDSON...

... rise to a methodological dilemma, because BBC broadcasts went largely unrecorded. Where some studies, such as Judith Pascoe's Sara Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice (2011), turn to literature to retrieve indexes of pre-phonographic voices, Morse confronts a medium that has always...

... . The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1981 . Kreilkamp Ivan . Voice and the Victorian Storyteller . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2005 . Kurnick David . Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2012...

... in its early years. He would have felt that if he were to find a literary voice through an academic apprenticeship, it would have more to do with an empirical mastery of language than with the visitations of a muse. The core reading list that Coetzee was handed in Austin included Emmon Bach...

... of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), pp. 192, $39.95. Arguing that twentieth-century scholarship on The Scarlet Letter has marginalized wom- en's critical voices in ways that echo the treatment of Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's novel, Jamie...

...STUART BURROWS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Works Cited Awkward , Michael . “The Inaudible Voice of it All: Silence, Voice, and Action in Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Inspiring Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women Writers . New York: Columbia UP, 1989...

... introduction establishes the critical context for Cuddy-Keane's thesis, reminding readers of the voices which have shaped our current conversations about modernist aesthetics in the public sphere (Andreas Huyssen, John Carey, Peter Brantlinger, Jonathan Rose) and Woolf's political engagement...

... with delight to the dissonance of the line “I took up the Bible and began to read” (126), that easy appropriation of the voice that told Augustine at his conversion, “Take 1 Some examples include Backscheider 417; Hunter 158–60; McKeon 317–18; Starr 110–11; Watt 76. Novel: A Forum...

...Neil Schmitz The Regime of Mother Flannery mark mcgurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009), pp. 480, cloth, $35.00. Write what you know. Find your voice. Show, don’t tell. As I approached Mark McGurl’s...

... Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1998 . That being said, The Oracle and the Curse presents a compelling account of the way in which the crisis over slavery affected the very nature of literature during the lead-up to the Civil War...