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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Theory and the Novel"”.
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
This thesis proposes a new way to encounter the fiction of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen through the lens of talk. I use the term ‘talk’ to define and theorize a liminal category of expression in these texts, vacillating between the elevated, ineffable significance associated with …
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Novel weapons: the invasion of fake news and the evolution of political news ecosystems
In this dissertation, I work to answer the question: how are recent attempts to insert fake news into political news ecosystems similar to and different from previous attempts? To this end, I present a historical timeline of major technological shifts that have altered political news ecosystems, …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
This dissertation defines and theorises ‘constellational form’ in the novel, a term I develop from the work of Walter Benjamin. By ‘constellational form’, I mean an associative, essayistic, digressive, allusive, and densely patterned form of prose writing—one that is attuned to interconnection and …