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...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...

...Kelly Yin Nga Tse Abstract In a conflict-ridden world, how might the contemporary novel witness violence? The present article pursues this question by turning to British Chinese author Timothy Mo's novel The Redundancy of Courage (1991), an allegorical account of Indonesia's capture of East Timor...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... Describing the contemporary moment as an “age of witnessing,” Ganguly maintains that digital technology has enabled the massive visual documentation of war and violence, the global consumption of which has produced a distinctively mediatized form of humanitarian sensibility (140). Following a short...

... . Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: 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...

... of world literature. For Baucom, the writer is a melancholic witness to violence, providing a “testamentary counterdiscourse” in rejoinder to the erasures operative in the dominant and one-sided histories of the victorious ( 178 ). As such, the testamentary writer, through practices of world making...

... 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...

... 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...

... that is absent in the body in the (imagined and absent) hand, the racial hand is still blank, an embodiment of “generalized violence,” not individual victims (134). But even as these accounts are framed by “evidentiary discourse” of photography, witnessing, and close reading, in the back and forth between...

... 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...

... either the victim, those who hear about the act (witnesses in a broad sense), or both” (5). She highlights the ways British liberal governmentality implemented torture as part of a logic of modernization linked to the expansion of capitalism. Acts of torture became both notorious and familiar...

..., 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 from the suffering of an undifferentiated mass of slaves, so...

... 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...

...: Indiana UP, 1985 . Fleischner , Jennifer . Mastering 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...

... of the describer's nightmare. Indeed, it treats the violence only retrospectively, depicting not the events themselves but their aftermath: “After the killing is over, after the gunman has slid to the ground, after the gun smoke has dissipated into the invisible, the witnesses rouse themselves into this world again...

... 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...