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... the question of why anecdotal evidence features centrally and has come to play a key role in New Historicist writing. Here, I contend that, as components of narrative discourse, anecdotal materials are central in enabling New Historicists to make discernible on the surface of their discourse procedures...

... elements that led him ultimately to a distinctively literary historical mode of thought. Drawing on the resources of opinion, anecdote, and secret history, he articulates possibilities for historicist inquiry that continue to stand as powerful alternatives to the romantic ideology. © 2005 by the Porter...

...Françoise Lavocat When, why, and how do people write about a natural disaster? The article characterizes three ways of narrating catastrophe—allegorical, anecdotal, and historical—and shows that a shift toward the historical narrative takes place at the beginning of the seventeenth century, more...

... Historicisms in Renaissance Studies,” in The Uses of the Canon: Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory , 142 – 69 ( Oxford : Clarendon ). Fineman Joel 1989 “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction,” in Veeser 1989 , 49 – 76 . Foucault Michel 1990 [1978...

... and their “sexist baggage,” while also acknowledging their potential in theorizing sexuality as “lived in and over time” (14–15). Gallop closes the introduction outlining her methodology for her work—what she has termed “anecdotal theory.” Anecdotal theory draws on personal narrative, thereby resisting the norms...

... (for an insightful analysis of the innuendos of published letters see Spacks Our ‘‘letter’’ pays no heed to the authorial conventions typically associated with letters published in maga- zines: it evokes no tone of intimacy or hint of consciousness, implies no relationship or stance, recounts no anecdotal...

... us smile at the narrator’s unwarranted confidence in memory or, at the very least, at his decision to make such a remark during an anecdote that illustrates the contrary. This authorial irony becomes more salient as we continue reading. First, the narrator tells us that Swann, “never having...

..., she asks about the anecdotal stories embedded within the main text: Facilitator: But what are they examples of? . . . Why are we being told the example of the Dionne quintuplets, and why does the narrator tell the incomprehensible story of Bessie Trumble? . . . What are they examples of? Janika...

... Historicist’s anecdote, somehow gets us closer, even if its ultimate insights are somewhat similar. There is a sense that the attention to materiality confirms the account by 12 virtue...

... and anecdote that the effect was closer to citation than reading. At one point, he addressed the crowd: ‘‘I mean, you want me to be a poet He claimed instead to be ‘‘a result of having listened’’ to the poets who’d read earlier in the week...

... behind public, political, and mili- tary actions: Arrigo Caterino Davila’s The History of the Civil Wars of France (translated into English from the Italian in 1644, into French in 1657) and Antoine Varillas’s Histoire de Charles X (1683) and Les anecdotes de Florence; ou, L’histoire secre`te de la...

... undergraduates is declining. Faculty comments in both the United States and Norway supported previous anecdotal evidence that assignments of entire books (long long-form) seem to be yielding to articles or chapters (medium long-form). The relatively small number of books being assigned (especially compared...

... psychologist, demonstrates in his analysis of the effects of atrocity on the survivor’s life. The deeply personal nature of testimony is of the essence and has its impact on listener and viewer. I do not wish to insist, however, that we always have to be addressed in the form of story or anecdote to take...

... . Fineman Joel 1986 Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets ( Berkeley : University of California Press ). 1989 “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction,” in The New Historicism , edited by Veeser H. Aram , 49 – 76 ( London...

... Companion to Shakespeare and the Text , edited by Murphy Andrew , 221 – 38 ( Chichester, UK : Wiley Blackwell ). Fineman Joel 1989 “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction,” in The New Historicism , edited by Aram Veeser H. , 49 – 76 ( New York : Routledge...

.... In Rodden’s (2001: 10) terms they would probably be called raconteurs “whose main unit of discourse is the anecdote.” Singer found it hard to resist interviews,8 yet he seemed anxious about them. For example, during the preparations for an interview on Swedish television, he nervously requested, “Don’t...

... there are droll anecdotes like the ones I've just proffered, whose appeal lies in the reassurance that our own fraught moment will one day be recollected in tranquility. It is true there was never anything “natural” about writing. The word has always already been processed, as I think Varley himself...

... ignorance of the text's defining feature, namely, the complete absence of the letter E throughout the over sixty thousand words of the novel (1969). Albérès's oversight has become a favorite anecdote about critical response to the novel. 2 Even the recent Pléiade edition features the incident in its...

..., and the exploration of new everyday genres of the public lit- erary sphere: the newspaper feuilleton, the sketch (ocherk), the anecdote, and the document, in order to produce ‘‘the literature of facts’’ (Shklovsky 1929).Yet Shklovsky’s own practice of ocherk and literatura fakta harks back to Charles Baudelaire’s...

... of specific books and films on groups of readers” are said to “rely on little more than speculations and anecdotes to support [the] claims of actual effects” (234). Even empirical research (on foregrounding) within the humanities draws scorn. In a detailed analysis of Willie Van Peer (1986) and David M...