Space, time, and structure in the modern novel.

Spatial form in narrative

Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism

Unknowing : the work of modernist fiction

Work of modernist fiction

Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Time and the novel : the genealogical imperative

Whence the novel: the genealogical imperative -- Subverting the father: some nineteenth century precursors: Wuthering Heights: myth and history, repetition and alliance ; Pierre, or, The ambiguities: incest, indeterminacy and fragmentation ; Ernest Pontifex, or, The way of all flesh: self-begetting, space, and forgetfulness -- "Links in a chain": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks -- The cycle dance: D.H. Lawrence, The rainbow -- "The shadowy attenuation of time": William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! -- "A colored spiral in a ball of glass": Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: a family chronicle -- "Everything is known": Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One hundred years of solitude -- Whither the novel: the wager on surface.

Dystopia

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On dystopia / Critical reception / Ursula K. Le Guin's critical dystopias / Totalitarian technocracies / Compare/contrast: media culture, conformism, and commodification in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and M. T. Anderson's Feed / Science, politics, and utopia in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Need it all end in tears? The problem of ending in four classic dystopias / "They got me a long time ago": the sympathetic villain in Nineteen eighty-four, Brave new world, and Fahrenheit 451 / wretched refuse of your teeming shore": overpopulation and social breakdown in Harry Harrison's Make room! Make room! / Rationalism, revolution, and utopia in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We / meaning of "I" in Ayn Rand's Anthem / Frontierism and dystopian representations of home in F. Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The space merchants / Nineteen eighty-four for the twenty-first century: John Twelve Hawks's Fourth realm trilogy as critical dystopia / This edged hymn: China Miéville within and against dystopia / 1983: Cory Doctorow's Little brother / Future almost lost: dystopian science-fiction film