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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Charlotte Sussman This essay argues that the problem of witnessing in the Romantic-era novel is caught up with the problem of moral epistemology and that both are inflected by temporality. Focusing on Charles Maturin's 1820 gothic Melmoth the Wanderer , this essay argues that, like many...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 452–471.
Published: 01 November 2020
... dramatizes a citizen-science response to marine debris and theorizes marine science as a mode of witnessing and a mode of reading. Furthermore, by bringing her depictions of marine science into conversation with the Zen Buddhist practice of not-knowing, Ozeki meditates upon the idea that attempts to know...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of enduring COVID‐19 restrictions intersected with the outrage of witnessing racial injustice. Telephone 's versions show how activism can result from an admixture of motives and aims. Against the claim that support for Black Lives Matter was insincere, Telephone imagines the grounds for political action...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 262–277.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Noha Radwan The early twentieth century witnessed the birth of an Egyptian novel that was an offspring of European realism and a constituent of the project of “modernizing” the country and the region. Yet by the middle of the century, the majority of Egyptian writers were veering away from realism...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... as well as the promise involved in turning one's readers simultaneously into participants and critical witnesses to one's story. Cather's distinctive form of modernism hinges on the way that she postulates a dichotomy between the world of aesthetic dreaming and the world of hard facts—then asserts...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 327–342.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Trans. Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1998 . ———. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive . Trans. Heller-Roazen Daniel . New York : Zone , 2000 . Badiou Alain...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 326–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
... intervention in this rich field of critical inquiry. What is the relation, she thoughtfully asks, between a world of “hyperconnected humans sensitized as witnesses to the depredations of gruesome global violence and the excesses of liquid capitalism,” on one hand, and the “contemporary world novel...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 176–197.
Published: 01 August 2003
...: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Felman , Shoshana , and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History . London: Routledge, 1992 . Fogel , Aaron . Coercion to Speak: Conrad’s Poetics of Dialogue . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985 . Genette...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., to return to Baucom's argument about the writer as testamentary witness, we observe that the novel enacts three levels of witnessing simultaneously: it condemns Julius for his haste to forget others' pain, it alerts us to our own tendency to similarly disavow others' suffering, and yet it recalls precisely...
FIGURES
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 282–286.
Published: 01 August 2024
... that it comprised the testimony of “many thousand witnesses, of every rank and of every profession and employment . . . differing in every conceivable degree in education, habits, and interests” (qtd. in Berman 110). Unlike newspaper coverage of parliamentary debates, which “eavesdropped on the powerful elite...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 501–505.
Published: 01 November 2010
... altruistic reward” (156). Second, and more impor-
tant, even in Welles’s lost version of the film, that punishment goes unnoticed by those
whose witnessing would have been most satisfying: the dead or forgetful “good citizens”
who would have been able to properly assess the costs and benefits...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 537–541.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for sexual transgression with British men who live out yet another orientalist fantasy of penetrating the harem. As Briefel argues, however, these texts expose the sadistic pleasure of the men who witness these acts, their identification with “Eastern despots,” and “Western complicity in this violence” (106...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 402–420.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of a Black Coat: Containing a Series of Remarkable Occurrences and Entertaining Incidents, That it Was a Witness to in its Perigrinations through the Cities of London and Westminster, in Company with a Variety of Characters: As Related by Itself . London: n.p., 1760 . The Sedan: A Novel . London: n.p...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 287–292.
Published: 01 August 2024
... novels transform the secular ritual of sovereign power into a religious liturgy of torture” (13) that occurs when torture is witnessed, both within the narrative and by the reader, phenomenologically. Close readings of multiple novels reveal how, in a kind of ekphrasis (32), these novelistic “scenes...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 50–72.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Cited Austen Jane . Northanger Abbey . Ed. Grogan Claire . Peterborough : Broadview , 2002 . Battestin Martin C. The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts . Oxford : Clarendon , 1974 . Bender John . Imagining the Penitentiary...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 May 1999
... relationships among
the characters. Morrison's Beloved, for example, reveals the flaws in theories of tragic
scapegoating and slavery by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Rene Girard. These writers insist upon
REVIEW I INTERCULTURAL TRANSMISSION
the distance of the reader or witness...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives . New York: New York UP, 1996 . Foster , Frances Smith . Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives . Westport: Greenwood, 1979 . Foster , Frances Smith . Written by Herself: Literary Production...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 442–459.
Published: 01 November 2019
... dissipated into the invisible, the witnesses rouse themselves into this world again, find themselves waking in warm huddles reinforcing each other's humanity; they blink at their surroundings to squeeze the violence from their eyes” (24). Far from seeming like the end of a story or the end of this novel...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 96–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the trees is also, inevitably, a marvel. So although there is an increase in the use of descriptive language here, it is a language that has lost much of its significatory force, frustrating Columbus's attempt to give the reader some intimation of the wonders he has witnessed. All we really learn from...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 439–442.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to inveigle
the reader into witnessing-as a voyeur-Rousseau's concealed pleasure in his own
humiliation. Shamefully, or rather using shame as a disguise or a ruse, Rousseau likes to
exhibit himself and to get the reader to watch. According to O'Rourke, what differentiates
this from libertine...
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