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the airport and drugstore categories which replaced the older genres begins to flourish in opposition to the formerly modernist “classics” of college humanities courses, while, under the force field of globalization, a newer novelistic production begins to sort itself out into categories of national origin, […]

— Jun 04, 2024 01:50PM

Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

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the viability of the full-blown nineteenth-century or "realist" novel rested on prota-gonicity, that is, the capacity of its central character to suffer history's lightning strikes and to survive in some memorable form, which might well simply be death (or its American equivalent, failure).

— Jun 04, 2024 01:45PM