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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 326–329.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Ali Behdad Debjani Ganguly , This Thing Called the World ( Durham : Duke UP , 2016 ), pp. 312 , paper, $26.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Novel, Inc. 2019 In recent years, literary scholars have reintroduced the idea of world literature—first elaborated by Johann Wolfgang von...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Carolyn Vellenga Berman What is the “world” in “world literature”? In publishing, as in literary criticism, this term often applies to the leftovers of the international literary market: works not drawn from the major national publishing markets. It signifies, in effect, “the rest of the world...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 467–473.
Published: 01 November 2009
... literacy, he does establish that the nonliterate world has the same potential for meaning and artistic creation and knows the same dangers of solipsism and literal reading as literacy does. I also consider several related themes: the trope of the talking book and the orthography that missionaries invented...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 November 2019
...John Carlos Rowe Andrew Gaedtke , Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2017 ), pp. 254 , cloth, $99.99 . Copyright © 2019 by Novel, Inc. 2019 Andrew Gaedtke's study of the relationship between...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267.
Published: 01 August 2006
... . Bentley , Jerry H. Shapes of World History in Twentieth Century Scholarship . Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1996 . Bhabha , Homi K. The Location of Culture . London: Routledge, 1994 . Bhabha , Homi K. “Adagio.” Critical Inquiry 31 (Winter 2005 ): 371...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Rosemary Marangoly George This essay argues that tracking Kamala Markandaya's literary career enables us to see, in retrospect, some of the blind spots of the postcolonial literary critical frame within which we have situated novels produced by third-world writers in the twentieth century...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
... struggle against systems of data capture and control. Both novels suggest that the ubiquity of computational systems has generated new problems for the form and function of literary thinking in the twenty‐first century. The first problem is both practical and aesthetic: how to narrate or describe a world...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 452–471.
Published: 01 November 2020
... or understand necessarily mean coexisting with what cannot be known, discovered, or recovered. Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 metafiction marine science Buddhism forensics witnessing blue humanities According to Ruth Ozeki, the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami “broke the world.” 1...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., Melville's novel offers a number of quite capacious portraits of the modern world. Consider, for instance, the global vision that emerges as Ishmael compares geopolitical conquest to the taking of “loose-fish,” whales apparently unclaimed by others and thus available for seizure: “What was America in 1492...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2023
... a tension between the good of the collective and the individual who flourishes through work in a newly razed world. The classic liberal humanist of Payne's book bends toward a romantic vision of Homo faber , the person who controls their fate through their labor. The “rescaling” that Payne explores...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for an understanding of the new “book of the world” than the “referential” function that stands as the traditional center of novel theory. The article concludes with a close reading of Adalbert Stifter's novel Indian Summer (1857) in order to demonstrate what an approach to a canonical text that is informed by our...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of us had said would be there in her prose transformed into poetry that would rock the literate world—how could I think anything other than that black women writers like Morrison, Walker, Jones, and others are the best thing to happen to the novel in the past fifty years? (And the judgment, by the way...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that the once peripheral literature and cinema that conformed to Fredric Jameson's definition of Third World national allegories can now be read as symptoms of First World cultural production. This historical and aesthetic shift has made itself felt at the heart of Israeli daily life in the rearticulation...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 334–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
... does not, perhaps cannot, undertake the further melancholic task of properly comparing such remains to the continuing ruinations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the oceanic zones of the world. Such was the charge laid against the Frankfurt School by Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism (1993...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 320–323.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Lloyd Pratt ELMER JONATHAN , On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World ( New York : Fordham UP , 2008 ), pp. 256 , cloth, $75.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Sovereignty in the Atlantic World
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 November 2014
... novelists employ the conventions in characters who understand the world as a simple, single totality. For both writers, the cult serves to draw a contrast with the novels' own self-consciously complex cognitive maps of the contemporary world system. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Ban Wang During his tenure in the Lu Xun Academy in Yan'an, the center of the Chinese Revolution, the novelist Zhou Libo ran a seminar on world literature. While teaching masterpieces of European novelists, Zhou developed a theory of the novel that inherited themes of liberal humanism...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 May 2004
...KARIN WESTMAN MELBA CUDDY-KEANE, Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere . New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. pp. 237, $60.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Woolf in the World
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Krupa Shandilya Mufti Aamir , Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2016 ), pp. 304, cloth, $35.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 In recent years, the field of comparative literature has seen the emergence of a new...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jonathan Arac Examining changes in the study of the novel since Novel began publication in 1967, this essay focuses on the current importance of world literature as a topic for debate and exploration and suggests that complex relationships with the study of postcolonial literature have helped...
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