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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel

Alex Woloch
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Crusoe's Island of Misfit Things

Lynn Festa
TL;DR: The authors examines the way descriptions give shape and delineated form to subjects and objects (human, animal, and thing) and work to articulate divisions between them, focusing on Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
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Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf

TL;DR: The authors argue that the formal disappearance of aging from the English novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old, which corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.
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Recognition and the character of Seneca's Medea.

TL;DR: This paper examined the character and identity of Seneca's Medea, focusing on the recognition scene at the end of the play, and investigated how Medea constructs herself both as a literary figure and as an implied human personality.
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Animacy at the End of History in Changrae Lee's On Such a Full Sea

TL;DR: The authors examine how dystopian depictions of US-China interdependency speculate on the material and aesthetic consequences of China's rise, which, of late, have been articulated-though rarely explicitly-as "capitalist realism": a belief in the impossibility of imagining alternatives to capitalism at the end of history.
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Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances

John Plotz
- 17 Dec 2007 - 
TL;DR: In News from Nowhere and his neglected prose romances (1891-1896), William Morris aims to refute a Victorian novelistic commonplace: that personal identity and cultural privilege are portable properties, and that empathic identification depends on individuals' carrying a durable sense of self with them, housed in such portable properties as mentioned in this paper.