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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... that is distinguished from “reconciliatory postcolonialism” ( During 31 ) by its accommodation of a Cold War perspective. At the same time, it problematizes the application of the center-periphery model derived from Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory to twentieth-century literary history, which is part...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 409–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that refuse totalizing immersion and that require characters to take responsibility for interacting with manifestly imaginary beings. Each of these realities comprises what I identify as multiple world systems, or narratively constructed semiotic domains such as those of cults or coteries, whose borders...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 366–372.
Published: 01 November 2009
... think of late European humanism (and its associated modernist discourses of psyche and myth) as crucially formed by the colonial world system. In that case we can also reread modernism in a properly global frame, turning Lukács against Lukács, by taking the modernist novel of consciousness...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
...? Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 global novel world-systems theory surface reading distant reading Franco Moretti Louis Althusser Of all Franco Moretti's masterworks of literary history and theory, why is it the loosely assembled collection of occasional pieces titled Distant...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., constituting, in this respect, something equivalent to the periphery in world-systems theory, this model has attracted the ire of postcolonial scholars. They see it reinstating a neo-imperialist dynamic in the relation between Europe and the world. Aamir Mufti's Forget English! is part of a new series...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 321–334.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-century world-systems theory, he argues that Cervantes's characters were, for Melville, not opposing concepts so much as perspectives from varying distances on the same piece of geographical territory. When focalized through characters occupying different positions within the same literary space...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 305–308.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of the nation state-a relatively recent invention after all- Diock subjects a series of nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to a diverse set of heuristic maps-world religion, gem theory, world systems theory, kinship studies, fractal geometry, deep ecology, relativity theory, linguistic morphology...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
... ( 2015 ). 1 Cued by Franco Moretti 's “conjectural” use of Trotsky's theory of combined and uneven development to reflect on “world literature,” the WReC conceptualizes the literary category as something that, like the world capitalist system itself, is composed of dynamically interrelated...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
... significant. When Melville depicts the scales and structures of the modern world-system while leaving unanswered the question of what overdetermining force makes that system a “system,” he avoids a problem that gnaws away at attempts of world-systems theory to account for globalization. As the editors...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 333–337.
Published: 01 November 2007
... come from neoliberalism as a complaint about the elitists in such enclaves who mistake their protected status for an excuse to promulgate delusional policy ideas that ignore our constantly embattIed conditions. Against neoliberalism (and, for that matter, Marxist world systems theory...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 323–343.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Robbins ( Robbins, “Subaltern Speak” ; Chibber, “Subaltern Mythologies” ; Robbins, “Response” ). 2 Moretti is describing world literature, but he does so in the context of world systems theory. The British are not the only group to claim Zachary, however: for “Serang Ali [the head...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
... realism of many nations. The recent rise of world-systems theory as an explanatory matrix for global literature—along with the turn to macro-models like “deep time” and the Anthropocene—has contributed to the reorientation of literary studies away from the East-West axis and toward the newer North-South...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Wallerstein's “world systems theory,” 17 to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire ( 2000 ), to attempts to conceptualize “world literature” (see Damrosch ; Moretti ; Helgesson and Vermeulen), critics and theorists have examined the “[l]ogics of rule that in some sense originated in Europe...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 November 2014
... . ———. “A Conversation with David Mitchell.” Interview by Catherine McWeeney . Bold Type 4 . 7 ( 2000 ) < http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1100/mitchell/interview.html >. ———. Ghostwritten . New York : Vintage , 2001 . Moretti Franco . “World-Systems Analysis, Evolutionary Theory...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . Kittler Friedrich A. “ The World of the Symbolic, a World of the Machine .” Trans. Harris Stefanie . Literature, Media, Information Systems . Amsterdam : G+B , 1997 : 130 – 46 . Lacan Jacques . The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
... with today's world,” waxing philosophical on missile guidance systems, viral pandemics, and probability theory ( Diary 22 ). McCarthy's book takes a similar essayistic form, chronicling the intellectual labor of an anthropologist named U. who tries (and fails) to pen a comprehensive “Great Report...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 406–424.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to Clifford Siskin, genre is “a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to know it,” then genre fiction endures to alert its readers to the systematic aspect of literary interpretation itself as well as to changes in that system ( System 1). Not all readers—or writers—are pleased...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 August 2022
... elements. The system itself produces value rather than individuals or firms. Mirowski observes field theories of value derive from the idea that “[t]hings are valuable because people think they are” ( 399 ). Consequently, as Pitts indicates, value—and hence the money used to represent it—derive worth...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of world literary space rather than a protocitizen of world community. Instead of focusing on molding better citizens through reading, this piece calls for an ethics of global reading that reconsiders and expands the number of cultural systems and traditions from which the possibilities for belonging might...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 93–118.
Published: 01 May 1999
... in the system of objects, she is associated with surfaces, games, and lies, "the outward shows of all those things of which the inward facts are valued by the good and steadfast ones of the earth" (1: 126). If Lizzie is associated with the world of surfaces, appearances, and shifting values...