Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899936
Kim Salmons
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899923
Erin G. Carlston, John G. Peters, Andrew Bishop, S. Streitfeld, Nicole Schrag, Eric Aronoff, M. Farrant, Jeffrey R. Di leo, Holly Henry, J. Jackson, Andrew Koenig, R. Millington, Kim Salmons, M. Zeitlin
Abstract:This essay argues that the linguistic and historical connections Joyce draws between Ireland and Great Britain’s other conquests tend to position Ireland at the center of a network, primus inter pares in a coalition of the subaltern. Looking especially closely at Joycean references to the Antipodes in Finnegans Wake, this essay asks how the text’s assimilation of Māori and other Indigenous people/languages with the Irish people and language instates a complexly defined Irishness as the ur-condition of all colonized people.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899932
Holly J. Henry
{"title":"Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)","authors":"Holly J. Henry","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a899932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a899932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81514152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899930
M. Farrant
Abstract:This essay addresses the intersection of the contemporary novel and theory, notably through recent debates around critique. As both the twenty-first century novel and the movement of postcritique emerge after the age of High Theory, this essay explores how the contemporary genre of theory fiction, specifically Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island, has anticipated or even pre-empted the insights of postcritique. This essay argues that McCarthy’s theory fiction constitutes a reorientation of critique in response to neoliberalism’s post-political defanging of academia—a process that is both diagnosed and epitomized by the discourse of postcritique.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899928
Nicole Schrag
Abstract:Since at least the 1990s, network theory has proven central to the Anglo-American expansion of modernist studies, especially in theories of global modernism. By examining the British modernist scholarship on Mulk Raj Anand, this essay claims that modernist studies’ use of networks often assumes that ties between writers or texts are neutral or positive. This essay argues via the work of Anand’s compatriot Sajjad Zaheer, whose novella A Night in London was recently translated into English, that often-overlooked negative ties are integral to the literary history of Indian modernism and to the future practice of weak global modernism.
摘要:至少自20世纪90年代以来，网络理论已被证明是英美现代主义研究扩展的核心，特别是在全球现代主义理论中。通过考察英国现代主义学者对穆尔克·拉吉·阿南德的研究，本文声称现代主义研究对网络的使用通常假设作家或文本之间的联系是中立或积极的。本文通过阿南德的同胞萨贾德·扎希尔(Sajjad Zaheer)的作品(他的中篇小说《伦敦之夜》(A Night in London)最近被翻译成英文)来论证，经常被忽视的负面联系是印度现代主义文学史和未来弱全球现代主义实践不可或缺的一部分。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899933
J. Jackson
{"title":"Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)","authors":"J. Jackson","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a899933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a899933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86022539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899935
R. Millington
In Novel Subjects, Milne persuasively argues that imperfect ethnic subjects must develop strategies of artifice and collaboration and avoid the pigeonholing of multiculturalism to care for themselves. Novel Subjects is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of ethnic studies, and its primary contention—that self-care entails reciprocity between characters and between authors and readers—ought to provoke debate. Milne’s intersectional literary analysis models how literary criticism can tackle a diverse range of texts without flattening them the way the multicultural movement once threatened to do.
{"title":"Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)","authors":"R. Millington","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a899935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a899935","url":null,"abstract":"In Novel Subjects, Milne persuasively argues that imperfect ethnic subjects must develop strategies of artifice and collaboration and avoid the pigeonholing of multiculturalism to care for themselves. Novel Subjects is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of ethnic studies, and its primary contention—that self-care entails reciprocity between characters and between authors and readers—ought to provoke debate. Milne’s intersectional literary analysis models how literary criticism can tackle a diverse range of texts without flattening them the way the multicultural movement once threatened to do.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86502068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899987
M. Zeitlin
{"title":"William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)","authors":"M. Zeitlin","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a899987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a899987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76031787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899927
S. Streitfeld
Abstract:In the twentieth century, sexology became a quantitative enterprise. Yet queer novels from the 1930s, such as Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler’s The Young and Evil, often replete with scientific jargon, are also full of inaccurate numbers. This essay examines the aesthetic and figurative use of quantitative representations in these two queer fictions. Psychometry and sex research established a rhetoric of numberiness for same-sex acts and identities. But these novels reject the objectivity of numbers, challenging their capacity to shore up the statistical rhetorics of heteronormativity and scientific fascism in this decade.
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