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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Jacques Rancière Abstract This essay uses constructions of avowed fiction from modern Western literature and criticism (Erich Auerbach, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner) to question the sense of reality constructed by dominant social discourses that claim to be the mere expression of reality...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 207–220.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Hossein Ayazi A review of Lowe Lisa , The Intimacies of Four Continents ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as ifc . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 REVIEW ESSAYS Liberal Modernity and Its Fictions Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Katja Perat Abstract This essay examines how Stanisław Lem mobilizes the genre of science fiction to portray regional Central European concerns as structural conditions of semiperiphery. The essay centers on Lem’s interest in illegibility, which defines him as a novelist and a critic, showing how...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 June 2020
... sequentially followed will deliver a fair verdict, if not justice, Kafka’s reordering of space and time exposes a world in which the allegation becomes punishment and the expected release becomes the renewal of detention itself. The relation between fictional and legal sequence proves salient for understanding...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
... construction masquerading as mere ontological fact. Yet historians remain committed to the fiction as if it were fact, occluding the ways that narrating the Human requires evading full recognition of the ubiquity and permanence of anti-Blackness in the modern world. Indeed, this article argues...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 363–384.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Ryan Lackey [email protected] [email protected] A review of Dan Sinykin, Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2023 ). Cited in the text as BF. Copyright © 2024 Editorial...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 59–83.
Published: 01 December 2009
... emancipatory forces. Yet if we look back to what precisely the modern “invention of tradi- tion” recovers as the first work of fiction, Greek tragedy, we find that the Western self takes as its first self-representation, paradoxi- cally, the denial of the human ability to act: although tragic he- roes...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 521–538.
Published: 01 December 2018
... mental illness is further conditioned by race and gender, and much more. A similar thing could be said about each of the other novels mentioned. Second, I have by no means offered an exhaustive account of either the authors or the novels within the particular branch of speculative fiction to which I...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 421–438.
Published: 01 December 2021
... flexibility of personification debate, Zeeman also emphasizes how this genre produces a fictional or “imaginative space” that aims to investigate terms, categories, and concepts rather than to seek solutions ( AD , 163). Her relatively brief remarks about the imaginative origins and functions...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
... story in the collection imagines the limits of normative thinking by narrating worlds as spaces where every norm is a point of contention. Arimah’s collection slips through the cracks of genres. By this I mean that the collection cannot be easily classified as magical realism, science fiction...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
...: An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. And Malik’s primitive novel is like a pattern book, a guide to later events. . . . Malik had no skills as a novelist, not even an elementary gift of language. . . . But when he transferred his fantasy...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Hermogenes of Tarsus, one century later. Quintilian defines prosôpopoiia as fictiones personarum —the making, fashioning, or feigning of a persona—and he gives the example, borrowed from Cicero, of “raising the dead” ( inferos excitare ); whereas for Hermogenes prosôpopoiia is when “we attribute a face...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jesse Cordes Selbin A review of Greiner Rae , Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 ). Cited in the text as sr . Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 REVIEW ESSAYS Sympathetic Distance and Victorian Form...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 251–266.
Published: 01 June 2018
... prominently, however, he is an established author of science fiction and speculative (or, as he puts it, “weird”) fiction: like October , his celebrated fictional oeuvre evinces a fascination with both left politics and urban settings, including Embassytown (2012), The City and the City (2009...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 369–394.
Published: 01 December 2023
... . https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/to-quarantine-from-quarantine-rousseau-robinson-crusoe-and-i/ . Marais Mike . Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 . Merivale Patricia . “ Audible Palimpsests...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
Published: 01 December 2022
... turn to a close reading of Said’s early works of literary criticism ( Beginnings: Intention and Method and Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography ) to demonstrate how the bases of Said’s later accounts of religion and secular criticism not only emerged from these early works but did so...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... or pastiche, without quotation marks or qualifica- tion: Rings, improbably, is a work of high modernism, however late. Sebald’s use of obsolescent forms in the context of his fiction re-authorizes them as forms, while conversely, their authority as forms authorizes his fiction. Sebald’s realism...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 227–231.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., 2002). S. Ansky, The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky, ed. with an introduction by David G. Roskies, trans. Golda Werman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). Brian Attebery, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2002). Marc Auge...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 233–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... throughout Haraway’s coruscating, baffling, invigorating, and frustrating book is the multivalent abbreviation SF, which stands for, among other things, “science fiction, speculative fabulation, string figures, speculative feminism, science fact, so far” ( sw , 2). The most important of these is “string...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 283–288.
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Fish, Menachem, and Yitzhak Benbaji. The View from Within: Norma- tivity and the Limits of Self-Criticism. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. Flaxman...