Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2024.a921554
Andrew Harrison
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2024.a921559
Maureen T. Reddy
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2024.a921549
Wendi Bootes
Abstract: This essay theorizes a connection between referential instability and British imperial collapse in Elizabeth Bowen’s novel The Last September . It argues that the felt experiences of the rapidly shifting historical situation in Ireland must be understood through the novel’s linguistic indirection. By tracing the development of “enabling generalizations,” it shows how the novel’s dialogic language exposes the unstable nature of colonial identification—evidenced in the volatility of setting—while offering a formal strategy for grappling with that very instability.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2024.a921555
R. E. Hosmer
{"title":"Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)","authors":"R. E. Hosmer","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2024.a921555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2024.a921555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140278434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2024.a921547
Anne E. Fernald
Abstract: An exploration of the two senses of the word kind—“kind” as “of a piece” and “kind” as “amiable”—in Virginia Woolf. The essay focuses on Mrs. Dalloway , with reference to the short story “The Man Who Loved His Kind” and To the Lighthouse . Unlike goodness or beauty, kindness in Mrs. Dalloway operates as a conservative virtue, designed to reinforce social hierarchies and demand gratitude from the recipient. Kindness is not only demonstrated in action, but also in thought. Despite Woolf’s satire, Mrs. Dalloway retains a faith in what we might term “real kindness,” though examples of such kindness are rare.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915963
Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar
Abstract:This essay interprets Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story in relation to the history of irony, focusing particularly on the ideas of Paul de Man. By considering Gordimer's engagement with theory in essays she wrote during the novel's composition, I argue that she acquired an appreciation for the notion that language mediates one's relationship to reality; such a principle lets her develop the novel's ironic conceit. The effect of the novel is to shift attention away from ethical conundrums posed by oppression to problems of representation: an effect that helps us to understand certain features of theory.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915961
Christina J. Lambert
Abstract:This essay examines the character of Mother in E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel, Ragtime, through the lens of the literature that sits on her nightstand: an antisuffragist text by Molly Elliot Seawell and a pamphlet about family limitation by Margaret Sanger. Mother's character stands with one foot in the world of radical feminism and another in the milieu of antisuffragists. This context reframes her interactions with marginalized figures in the narrative and undermines her supposedly happy ending. Reading Mother in view of these texts makes her a dynamic character in the novel, revealing her inner life and agency.
摘要:这篇文章通过 E. L. Doctorow 1975 年的小说《Ragtime》中母亲床头柜上的文学作品--莫莉-埃利奥特-西威尔（Molly Elliot Seawell）的反妇女主义者作品和玛格丽特-桑格（Margaret Sanger）关于家庭限制的小册子--来研究母亲这个角色。母亲的角色一只脚站在激进女权主义的世界里，另一只脚站在反妇女主义者的环境中。这种背景重塑了她在叙事中与边缘人物的互动，并破坏了她本应幸福的结局。从这些文本中解读母亲，使她成为小说中一个充满活力的人物，揭示了她的内心世界和能动性。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915959
Benjamin Bagocius
Abstract:Widely regarded as a prototypical Victorian woman, Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse might also be read as embodying a surprisingly queer subjectivity. Drawing from the geological sciences and queer vitalist thought, I attend to Woolf's language for limning Mrs. Ramsay less gendered as a woman and more queered as a subject of lights and darks in motion. Woolf's father Leslie Stephen uses a similar lexicon to describe mountains in his acclaimed mountaineering tracts. Woolf borrows Stephen's mountaineering vocabulary to narrate queer subjectivities as more geological than gendered and thus loosens subjectivities from heteropatriarchal orthodoxy.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915968
Lee Konstantinou
{"title":"Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature by Mitchum Huehls (review)","authors":"Lee Konstantinou","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139193432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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