(What does it mean to) Think the Novel
Edited by Mike Grimshaw and Cindy Zeiher
Contents
Introduction – Cindy Zeiher and Mike Grimshaw
Nancy Armstrong – The Contemporary Disposition of the Novel
Slavoj Žižek – Beckett as Writer of Abstraction
Henrietta Mondry – Jewish-Christian encounters, suicide and transitory spaces in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Trollope’s Nina Balatka
Roland Végső – A World Without the Novel
Rex Butler – Henry James: To Love is to Double
Philip Sayers – Zadie Smith’s and Judith Butler’s Novelistic Inconsistencies
Nathan Gorelick – What Is the Novel? The Fundamental Concepts of a Literary Phenomenon
Victor E Taylor – Michel Houellebecq’s Novel Precarities: Literature That Leads Nowhere
Tim Themi – Bataille, Literature, Happiness, and Evil
Mauro Ponzi – German Difference: Ostalgie as a form of Cultural Identity in Unified Germany
Antonio Viselli – This Novel will Self-Destruct: André Gide’s, The Counterfeiters
David Ferris – Time and the Narrative of Memory in Sebald’s Austerlitz
Michael Grimshaw – A Dance to the Death of God: The Novels of Anthony Powell.
Dossier and Interventions
Duane Roussele – The Little objet a of Anarchist Philosophy
Victor Lund Shammas and Tomas Holen – Leaving the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation with McKenzie Wark
Reviews
Victor Lund Shammas – Critical Remarks on Axel Honneth’s, The Idea of Socialism