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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 96–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Bede Scott Abstract Situated at the intersection of postcolonialism and affect studies, this essay explores the significance of wonder in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees (2013). In her novel, Yanagihara provides a detailed account of an anthropological expedition to the remote...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the epistemological uncertainty that each text represents. Crusoe and Hume model how such epistemological uncertainty might be a source of pleasing wonder by exhibiting an attitude of viewing the ordinary as if it were rare, and the illusory as if it were real—and by extension the real as if it were illusory...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 550–554.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Barbara M. Benedict Kareem Sarah Tindal , Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2014 ), pp. 288, cloth, $99.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Since Stephen Greenblatt published Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
... and cleaning, leads rre to wonder whether Mercado's writing
is as completely "free" of the "legacy of patriarchy" as Prieto declares, I nonetheless agree
that her narrative strives for a women's writing that is not simply a response to or reaction
against patriarchal models.
What I liked best about...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., in almost a Nietzschean way, serving Navakas's specific critical readings as well as mobilizing a reliable poetic strategy. The way coral works, careful buildup makes as much sense as a sudden turn. I wonder how much of this was conscious, and how much of this was the logic of coral insinuating itself...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 50–72.
Published: 01 May 2013
... 41 . 4 ( 2008 ): 481 – 506 . The Country Journal, or the Craftsman . 13 August 1737 . Daniels Stephen . Joseph Wright . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1999 . Daston Lorraine Park Katharine . Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 . New York : Zone , 1998...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
...” is a wonderful exegesis of Dickens's immensely complicated response to animals as pets on one end of the spectrum and as meat on the other. Kreilkamp stresses Dickens's anxiety about “the tendency of life toward voracious consumption,” an anxiety that compels Dickens to focus on bodily decomposition...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 499–501.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of England in the form of books, almanacs, and atlases in private and public libraries” (24). If part of the scholarly appeal here might be that this Austen reminds one of an academic on research leave, then the more significant part is that we discover that wonderful and mundane phenomenon: a writer...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 133–136.
Published: 01 May 2023
... because they mediate lived experience. In turn, utopian fiction wonders about the politics of travel to a better place: Will the protagonist be content to stay put? Does individual travel lead to collective improvement? Bartoszyńska concludes that these two novels represent a gap between utopian societies...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 276–279.
Published: 01 August 2006
...
others) easily lend themselves to the task of articulating an Orientalist representation of
American economic modernity. But the reader is left to wonder how the xemqly regional
variant represented by London and Norris is related to the whole nexus of writers referred
to under the rubrics...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 254–271.
Published: 01 November 2005
... its power to per-
suade, a new kind of narrative claims to satisfy the reader's need for more ra-
tional fare by "bring[ing] about natural events by easy means, and keep[ing]
up curiosity without the help of wonder" (175). Rambler 4 thus plots English fic-
tion's entrance into the modern...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 118–121.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of US society, why should we put reactionary anxiety at the heart of the social psychology of the nation? One wonders whether postapocalyptic fictions assume this anxiety (and so help to call it into being) or respond to an actually existing mood. One wonders, as well, how many novelists invoke...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): i–iii.
Published: 01 May 2010
... © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Contributors
franco moretti is Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Litera-
ture at Stanford University. His books include Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World
(1987), Modern...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 153–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... Charting the relationship between late eighteenth-century aesthetic formations and the work of both English and American early twentieth-century critics of American literary studies, Tawil's conclusion rhetorically wonders if American literature can “best [be] described as English literature...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 369–390.
Published: 01 November 2001
... and
voids; so that with a systematic surface possibly beyond reproach we would
neverthlessfail ofclearness ofsense. I should have to stretch the matter to what my
wondering witness materially and inevitably saw; a great deal of which she either
wouldn't understand at all or wotdd quite...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 May 2022
...). As a reader, I wondered how the preservation of documents both within and without the BBC works in tandem with colonial archive fever more generally and the control of memory as it canonizes and, in so doing, helps construct the object of study known as the global Anglophone novel. The loss of the sonic...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... Florence: Le Monnier, 2008 . Moretti , Franco . Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms . New York: Verso, 2005 . Perrault , Charles . Les contes en vers et en prose . New York: Dover, 2003 . Pope , Rebecca . “Writing and Biting in Dracula.” Byron 68 –92...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of sectional and racial divide fictions brought down as close to the present as Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone , Buell wonders how the Southwest or gringo/Latino border might organize new candidates for the Great American Novel, and he is off and running again, with significant pauses for Cormac...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 294–319.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of wonder, a sense of self-
awareness and a sharper reflection of his world from a comic book than from most
novels” (“What’s Wrong” 472). Why does Ellison, a writer obviously committed
to the novelistic form, privilege the comics genre over novels, for the sake of the
“individual man,” and most...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 474–476.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the facile or embodied ones—like formal difficulty that demands new and often onerous reading practices. Pleasure, then, is situated somewhere within the great and ambivalent divide of high-low culture, and its reconception, Frost claims, is one of modernism's defining aims. Her readings are wonderful, from...
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