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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2003
An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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Studies in the Novel archives from December 2003
Narrative transference and female narcissism: the social message of Adam Bede.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... The inspiring principle which alone gives me courage to write is, that of so presenting our human life as to help my readers in getting a clearer conception and a more active admiration of those vital elements which bind men together and give a...
"... Among the ruins": narrative archaeology in The Mayor of Casterbridge.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... Again in the country in August, Hardy resumed his cycling tours, meeting by accident Mr. William Watson, Mr. Francis Coutts (Lord Latymer), and Mr. John Lane at Glastonbury, and spending a romantic day or two there among the ruins.
--The...
The secret policeman's couch: imforming, confession, and interpellation in Conrad's Under Western Eyes.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... Joseph Conrad was fascinated by the political types that emerged with modernity, particularly from the muck of modern politics. We see this political preoccupation in his essay, "Autocracy and War," and in his most important fiction we find...
Creative disability/disabled creativity in Henry Green's Blindness (1926).(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... One must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity and health; in just the same way that one must have a knowledge of sin in order to find redemption. "There are," Hans Castorp once says, "two ways of...
William Gaddis calling: telephonic satire and the disconnection of authority.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
(Ephesians 4:29)
William Gaddis's four novels of "uprooted" voices harken to the very...
Waiting for the end: closure in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... As Margaret Atwood's most faithful readers have frequently noted, each new novel creates a special excitement since she has seemed intent on undermining her readers' expectations of what the novel will be like, based on their reading of the...
Three faces of Joyce.(reviews of three books on James Joyce)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Christy L. Burns. Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 224 pp. $19.95 (Paper).
Roy Gottfried. Joyce's Comic Portrait. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 189 pp....
Dasenbrock, Reed Way. Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. xvii + 330 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.
Reed Dasenbrock's Truth and Consequences has something for everyone interested in literary studies and its fortunes. Those who think...
David Deirdre, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... DAVID, DEIRDRE, ED. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxi + 267 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.
BAKER, WILLIAM AND KENNETH WOMACK, EDS. A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Westport,...
Ingham, Patricia. Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel: Readings in Language and Ideology.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 176 pp. $69.95.
As an old Dickens fan, I opened Professor Ingham's book with the greatest of expectations. Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel: Readings in Language and Ideology responds...
Mangen, Anne and Rolf Gaasland, Eds. Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Oslo: Novus, 2002. 228 pp. EUR 30.50.
Blissful Bewilderment, a collection of essays by (mostly) Scandinavian literary critics, marks "the beginning of significant Nordic research" on Thomas Pynchon, as its two editors Anne Mangen and Roll...
Schramm, Jan-Melissa. Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 244 pages. $59.95
Schramm's study, an exploration of how changing notions during the nineteenth century of the ways law and theology arrive at truth, and the influence these changes had on...
Shaw, Harry E. Narrating Realism: Austen, Scott, Eliot.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 280 pp. $35.00.
Harry E. Shaw is most noted for his work on Sir Walter Scott and, more specifically, Scott' s Waverley novels. In Narrating Reality, Shaw broadens his scope to investigate the...