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Papers by Lorri Nandrea
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Mar 1, 2005
Princeton University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2006
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 20, 2015
Studies in The Novel, 2007
In several respects, Persuasion represents a fantasy that retains its appeal. Apart from the attr... more In several respects, Persuasion represents a fantasy that retains its appeal. Apart from the attractive qualities of the intelligent, older heroine, the novel fulfills the wish that a missed chance might return; that an irrevocable decision might now be made anew; that a past moment might be persuaded to repeat itself, not as it was, but as it was not. In fact, it is possible to read this novel as an experiment in narrating the relations between wishes and temporality; in other words, between desire and history. The quality of persuadability comes to connote a positively valued ability to be affected, a capacity for change or differentiation. Austen associates this capacity not only with desire and subjectivity, but also with history itself, via a narrative structure that defies a progressive teleological trajectory as well as a logic of cause and effect. Instead, she here experiments with a plot based on "dynamic repetition" as Deleuze understood it, a repetition of the a...
Studies in the Novel, Mar 22, 2007
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2003
Page 1. Desiring Difference: ... Taking the place, in a sense, of the dead uncle who did not retu... more Page 1. Desiring Difference: ... Taking the place, in a sense, of the dead uncle who did not return, the coherent, articulate writing self revisits the scene "to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed" (48), translating the trauma into readable signs. ...
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2010
... free of desire. Mr. Dick is specifically presented as fractured, inhabited by the dead. ... T... more ... free of desire. Mr. Dick is specifically presented as fractured, inhabited by the dead. ... The affection with which he is represented and the identification marked by his name would thus signal a nostalgic attraction to a less disciplined, less oedipal mode of writing and desiring. ...
Cognition & Emotion, 1994
Antipode, 1999
... of undeveloped areas or fields for discovery or research, frontiers that, like the mountain... more ... of undeveloped areas or fields for discovery or research, frontiers that, like the mountains, can beckon with a sense of limitless pos-sibilities. ... In any event, the first spatial tier that occurred to me when confronted with Graffiti Taught Me Everything I Know about Space was the ...
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Mar 1, 2005
Princeton University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2006
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 20, 2015
Studies in The Novel, 2007
In several respects, Persuasion represents a fantasy that retains its appeal. Apart from the attr... more In several respects, Persuasion represents a fantasy that retains its appeal. Apart from the attractive qualities of the intelligent, older heroine, the novel fulfills the wish that a missed chance might return; that an irrevocable decision might now be made anew; that a past moment might be persuaded to repeat itself, not as it was, but as it was not. In fact, it is possible to read this novel as an experiment in narrating the relations between wishes and temporality; in other words, between desire and history. The quality of persuadability comes to connote a positively valued ability to be affected, a capacity for change or differentiation. Austen associates this capacity not only with desire and subjectivity, but also with history itself, via a narrative structure that defies a progressive teleological trajectory as well as a logic of cause and effect. Instead, she here experiments with a plot based on "dynamic repetition" as Deleuze understood it, a repetition of the a...
Studies in the Novel, Mar 22, 2007
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel, 2015
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2003
Page 1. Desiring Difference: ... Taking the place, in a sense, of the dead uncle who did not retu... more Page 1. Desiring Difference: ... Taking the place, in a sense, of the dead uncle who did not return, the coherent, articulate writing self revisits the scene "to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed" (48), translating the trauma into readable signs. ...
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2010
... free of desire. Mr. Dick is specifically presented as fractured, inhabited by the dead. ... T... more ... free of desire. Mr. Dick is specifically presented as fractured, inhabited by the dead. ... The affection with which he is represented and the identification marked by his name would thus signal a nostalgic attraction to a less disciplined, less oedipal mode of writing and desiring. ...
Cognition & Emotion, 1994
Antipode, 1999
... of undeveloped areas or fields for discovery or research, frontiers that, like the mountain... more ... of undeveloped areas or fields for discovery or research, frontiers that, like the mountains, can beckon with a sense of limitless pos-sibilities. ... In any event, the first spatial tier that occurred to me when confronted with Graffiti Taught Me Everything I Know about Space was the ...