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Emphasizes a new critical awareness of the singular qualities of the novel, a form whose truths may not be translatable to other cognitive, scientific, or political vocabularies
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Timothy Bewes
A political critique of postmodernism.
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Reification is the process by which an intangible idea is transformed into an identifiable thing . This book opens up a new formulation of the theory, claiming that, in this…
Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of…
This issue of Novel proposes a new type of novelistic hero: the anagonist. Unlike the protagonist, the anagonist does not act; or if she does, her action is inconsequential to…
This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald…
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Re-examines the principal themes of Lukacs’ work, considering their relevance for a generation of scholars interested in the relations between politics and aesthetics. This collection brings together work on Lukacs…
This book reevaluates the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesthetics, and politics for the present…
