...James Ramsey Wallen Abstract This article reads Flaubert's unfinished final novel Bouvard et Pécuchet as a two-volume epic that demonstrates the secret of the encyclopedia: the fact that different calculi of truth functions can be seen to operate independently in different areas of knowledge...

... death in volume 7. Just as the accident that shatters Tristram's post chaise allows him to discover the ancient pleasures of mule travel, so the disruption of narrative is designed to awaken readers to the polymorphous pleasures of older, slower kinds of reading now facing eclipse in the age...

... but nonetheless natural environments. Harryette Mullen's minimalist volume of poetry Urban Tumbleweed echoes Robinson's urban vision and the narrative of flânerie by which he explores the newly natural streets of large metropolises. Mullen's account of Los Angeles converges with Robinson's landscape of Mercury...

... understood as things that came apart, literally and figuratively, as well as things that came together. Nineteenth‐century readers were keen to cut up, recontextualize, and reboot Scott's printed works inside their own homemade manuscript volumes. Guided by their practices, we are able to see how Scott's own...

...Christopher Douglas Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a kind of companion volume to Toni Morrison's Beloved, recollecting through tropes of memory the history of American slavery: as with Morrison's novel, these histories are to be productive of contemporary identities. Gilead in particular helps...

...LEAH PRICE FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 928, cloth, $125.00, paper, $35.00. FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume II: Forms and Themes (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 960, cloth, $125.00, paper...

...BRIAN EVENSON FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 928, cloth, $125.00, paper, $35.00. FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume II: Forms and Themes (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 960, cloth, $125.00, paper...

... often used aesthetic denouncements of trench poetry to hide more sinister concerns about population politics and class conflict. Norris's chapter on Schindler's List also stands out as one of the most interesting of the volume. She is at her most "historical" here, combining analysis...

... Cited Adorno , Theodor W . “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” Can One Live after Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader . Ed. Tiedemann Rolf. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003 . 111 -25. ———. “Trying to Understand Endgame.” Notes to Literature, Volume 1 . Ed...

... she was entitled to no share in her own family's pr~perty.~This consequence of her gender resonates most strongly when she first publishes her Elegiac Sonnets in 1784, writing from the debtors' prison to which she had followed her husband but situating herself figuratively on the volume's...

... signifies not high modemist art, but rather the "writing practices" of women of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. "Experience" is a matter of the letter, or at least it is continually subject to articulation and narration. And so, "what is at stake in this volume," coeditors Ann Ardis...

... the bookcase in search of a volume that influenced me greatly when I first came upon it during graduate school: Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?, edited by Gustavo Pe´rez Firmat. That groundbreaking 1990 collection in some sense augured the current version of the field that Caroline Levander...

... entered into the argument of this volume, we are subjected to the divisive drama of omniscient narration, which represents “that monstrous collection of codes, conventions, and things to do, the mastery of which produces authority as such and which the social climber looks to command” (51). We have...

... fetishism" that Karl Marx would describe eight years later in the first volume of Das Kapital-commodity fetishism naked and unashamed, and with a vengeance. Another writer in Fraser's, publishing twenty years later under the name "Shirley," would seem to be complaining of precisely...

... earlier internationalist aspirations. 15 Upward was another communist writer whose commitment to socialism outlasted the time he spent in the conventicles of the CP. No Home but the Struggle (1977) is the title of the last volume of Upward's trilogy The Spiral Ascent . 16 Similar...

... to show that modernism and postmodernism don’t have all the best tunes points to unfin- ished political and philosophical business at the core of Marxist aesthetics. What Powell provides in his majestic twelve-volume panorama of the upper echelons of English society from the years immediately...

... of Minnesota P, 1997 . Foucault , Michel . Ethics, Subjectivity, and Truth. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume 1 . Ed. Rabinow Paul. Trans. Robert Hurley et al. New York: New Press, 1997 . ———. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France . Ed...

... literature which had the effect (among other things) of consolidating national self-consciousness and creating a national "literature" as a means of deploying it--one thinks for example of such widely selling sets as the six-volume Cabinet of Poetry (1808), Chalmers's 21- volume The Works...

... Jane (film), III: 83 Arendt, Hannah, II: 366 Beer, Gillian, II: 460 The Human Condition, III: 47 Novel: A Forum on Fiction 43:1  DOI 10.1215/00295132-2009-082  © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 198 index | volumes 42:2, 42:3, 43:1 Benjamin, Walter, I: 304; II: 417...

... of Ulysses as the binding of one after another splits in the face of his attentions. It seems, then, that in focusing on the limited shelf life of the physical volume, of author, and of reader, Lurz somewhat shortchanges the ongoing vivacity of the text—and the authorial investment therein. Whatever...