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...Michael Wood Works Cited Carpentier Alejo . The Lost Steps . 1953 . Trans. de Onís Harriet . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1989 . Volpi Jorge . Una Novela Criminal . Barcelona : Penguin Random House , 2018 . Savage Detectives works toward...

...Bruce Robbins “Too Much Information” takes issue with critic James Wood's charge that “information” plays a disproportionate and aesthetically unfortunate role in many of the larger and more ambitious novels recently published in English. It makes a case for the value of information. It does so...

...Michael Wood This essay is a study of a mischievous but powerful theory of fiction elaborated in different ways by Fielding and Cervantes. It rests on a suspicion of history that is also a longing for history. Fiction, these writers suggest, tells truths history cannot tell—because it is willing...

...Michael Wood ARAC JONATHAN , Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel ( New York : Fordham UP , 2011 ), pp. 192 , paper, $27.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Reviews...

...Gillen D'arcy Wood Lewis Jayne Elizabeth , Air's Appearance: Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660–1794 . ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2012 ), pp. 304 , cloth, $45.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press The Headwinds of ‘‘Cli-Crit...

..., and to this time it was still possible to see, in the deepest of the cracks between the swellings of other matter, a dubious piece of deeply aged brown wood. And there were many cracks, though most of them did not reach all the way down to the wood underneath. They were no longer sharp, the cracks...

... 42.1 ( 2001 ): 1 –14. Walkowitz , Rebecca . “Ishiguro’s Floating Worlds.” ELH 86 ( 2001 ): 1049 –76. Williams , Raymond . The Country and the City . New York: Oxford UP, 1975 . Wood , James . ‘The Human Difference.” Rev. of Never Let Me Go . By Kazuo Ishiguro. The New...

... with specific affective affordances. Both malleable and enduring, wood is susceptible to but able to survive assault. Maggie has another doll made of wax that receives her equally taxing love. She is described as “lavishing so many warm kisses on it that the waxen cheeks had a wasted unhealthy appearance...

... , James Wood assesses the novel in a manner consistent with compromise aesthetics. He argues that the novel's form happily elides “the long postwar argument between the rival claims of realistic and anti-realistic fiction—the seasoned triumphs of the traditional American novel on one side...

... afterlives, the volume turns toward concerns over the period’s ethical legacies. Tim Woods argues for an approach that examines not simply the “politics of form” but the “ethics of form” (154). At times, this seems a distinction without a difference, particularly when Woods pursues adaptations...

... in genre, The Buried Giant and Klara and the Sun , is typically thin (James Wood remarks that The Buried Giant 's “fictional setting is feeble”), there is sufficient scenario-specific detail in each to establish the fictional reality of their premises: Gawain exists; there are dragons; Klara and AIs...

...: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . Wood , Ellen . East Lynne . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005 . Some Body’s Story: The Novel as Instrument Meegan Kennedy In some of my former novels the object proposed has...

... incident to the greatest, and seemingly unavoidable, catastrophe. This logic persists well into our contemporary moment, not least with James Wood's controversial diagnosis of so-called hysterical realism. A “perpetual-motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity,” the postmodern...

... talents to illuminate a complex sector of society. Several years ago, the critic James Wood coined the term hysterical realism to refer to a group of contemporary novels that, in his view, had done away with character—or at least character in the traditional realist sense— and replaced...

... Wood and Ron Bush, have significant European connections (Wood has taught at Cambridge and Exeter while Bush is currently Professor of American Literature at Oxford). The book's first section addresses the well-worn topic of Joyce's impact on later Irish writers, starting with a wonderfully...

...: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Limits of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism .” Journal of Modern Literature 37 . 1 ( 2013 ): 40 – 57 . Wood James . “ The Arrival of Enigmas .” New Yorker 28 Feb. 2011 , 68 – 72 . At a photography exhibit he visits, he stops at a glass vitrine...

..., as if to fulfill David Wood’s prediction in 1989 that “our century long ‘linguistic turn’ will be followed by a spiralling return to time as the focus and horizon of all our thought and experience” (2001, xxxv). In the readings that follow of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Gertrude Stein’s...

... or as an assemblage produces the describer's nightmare itself. Critical writing about the novel reflects this. For example, James Wood, Jonathan Franzen, William Ramsey , and Ramón Saldívar all stress, in different ways, the challenge John Henry Days poses to a basic description of what happens in it. Franzen...

....’ New YorkPalgrave, 2006 . Whitefield , George . Three Letters from the Reverend Mr. G. Whitefield . Philadelphia: D. Franklin, 1740 . Wiltshire , John . “Decolonising Mansfield Park.” Essays in Criticism 53.4 ( 2003 ): 303 –22. Wood , Marcus . Slavery, Empathy...

... Style in The Childhood of Jesus .” Journal of Modern Literature 39 . 2 ( 2016 ): 72 – 88 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding . Berkeley : U of California P , 2000 . Wood James . “ A Frog’s Life .” Rev. of Elizabeth Costello...