...Brady Harrison Abstract The article explores the so-called quantum measurement problem, or the collapse of a wave function in the act of observation, as a reading and interpretive strategy. In particular, the article argues that the Maltese falcon, if it exists at all, does not exist in Dashiell...

... and the contingent construction of their readers. It is as if with the collapse of realism, the collapse of the realist reader—that modeler of a shared reality—also collapses. What remains is the incoming and wholly impersonal epoch of function systems and functional differentiation, and the displacement...

... polarizations), they can become entangled such that their wave functions (i.e., the eigenstates described by their superpositions) are coordinated. If they are then separated, measurement on one of them determines how the wave function for the other will collapse, even if they are by then far apart...

...Steve Nathaniel Abstract This article describes Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with acoustics and its relationship both to her writing process and to the development of sensibility that she narrativizes in The Waves . It situates Woolf's theoretical and fictional models of listening with respect...

... new approaches of deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and new wave feminism. A recurring theme in these essays is the resistance to “assimilation”; in various ways the claim is made that Joyce's work, and Finnegans Wake in particular, lies beyond the reach of existing and possibly even...

.../article/0,9171,2010185,00.html >. Guillory John . “Enlightening Mediation.” This is Enlightenment . Siskin Warner 37 – 63 . Hansen Jim . “Formalism and Its Malcontents: Benjamin and de Man on the Function of Allegory.” New Literary History 35 ( 2004 ): 663 – 83...

... if reductive readings of Hamlet and Benito Cereno , Schmitt's influence remains largely indirect, via the work of thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Derrida, the latter of whom waved the “1987 Schmitt Telos issues in his seminars in order to exhort participations to take Schmitt seriously” ( Pan...

....” Rockhill Watts , 15 – 29 . Woolf Virginia . The Waves . New York : Harcourt , 1931 . ———. To the Lighthouse . Ed. Drabble Margaret . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1992 . Introduction: Jacques Rancie`re and the Novel TIMOTHY BEWES Jacques Rancie`re has long been recognized...

...Jacques Rancière In The Waves , one of the characters dreams of “a wandering thread, lightly joining one thing to another.” This essay situates this dream within the problem of modern fiction. Fiction was defined by Aristotle as an arrangement of actions according to necessity or verisimilitude...

... to the political situation after the collapse of the Twin Towers. Tracing the relation between the literary imagination and the socioeconomic and geopolitical conditions for literary production after 9/11, the essay argues that while both novels do important cultural work in pondering the power and the limits...

...Paul Stasi This essay takes up the relationship between modernism and postcolonialism through a comparison of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies . What Conrad understands as a crisis in narrative form is, I argue, a function of his understanding of history as the absolute...

...” (179). On the use of hair, specifically “fringes,” as a sign, see Roland Barthes 26 ; for a nuanced view of the way hair functions as a transhistorical fetish, see Vivian Sobchack . Eliot's use of signs or tags points as well toward the relevance of the novel's urban setting, in which street...

... that Crane's story finally does not so much bemoan the town's failure to sympathize as complicate the very meaning and function of sympathy. Put another way, "The Monster" transforms the category of sympathy from a solution to social problems into a social problem in itself. Within the context...

...-determination jostle with deeply embedded racialized social and economic systems that shape neocolonial relations with Euro-America. Nwaubani's prologue compacts Nigeria's—and by extension, Paulinus and Augustina's—trajectories from the promise of the 1960s to the collapse of these futures in the 1980s...

... / the waves are our comrades all" (31). This is not a world where those occupying the lowest rungs of society are fighting for their livelihood; rather they function as a picturesque backdrop for a poet's musings. I would argue that it is in Naidu's poetry that the residue of her feminist poli...

... with a rambler, a road, and what amounts to an eviscerating primer about state fantasy. A classic chronotope, the road has multiple functions: it registers and collapses the physical distance between two places, it is an arche- typal metaphor for life as a journey, and it serves as a literal and figural...

... this statement as an actual sameness rather than as a figurative connection.) For Septimus, under- standing metaphor proves more difficult, as his ability to distinguish between the two compared items is disrupted by their eventual collapse into each other. He makes connections where he should not, seeing...

...—that something that the camera's lens does not see and therefore cannot reproduce, literally—but which is there. 3 Realism in this way exceeds that which is actually pictured and functions as a generative force that prompts engagement—in the case of Meiselas, historical engagement as well as interpretative...

... of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility JOSEPH ENTIN 1. Realism, Legibility, and the Turn-of-the-Century City Recently, several scholars of late nineteenth-century urban fiction, photography, and social science discourse have stressed the complicity...

... topics as climate change ( Clarke ), naturalism ( Stanley ), New Wave science fiction ( Sykes ), apocalyptic discourse ( Gomel ), and the history of World War II in Asia ( Kong ) and Europe ( Baxter ). My goal in this essay, however, is to consider how the late sequence provides a ground for speculating...