(Np) current issue of Daedalus

[Mark Kohut]

Raphael,

Thank You!...Reading about the novel is about the only genre or
metacriticism I have ever been interested in.

I wil read.

Mark

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 8:10 AM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good one. Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:26 PM Raphael Saltwood
> <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is on the novel -
> >
> >
> > We know what a novel is, but can we say the same about the novel? While
> any definition of the novel will fail us at some point, the interesting
> question is not what the novel is but what work the word novel doeswhen we
> use it, or what reasons we may give for using it or not.
> >
> > The Winter 2021 issue of Dædalus “On the Novel,” guest edited by Michael
> Wood (Academy Member; Princeton University), features fourteen essays,
> written by scholars with a variety of approaches and interests, that offer
> remarkable insights into the behavior of this versatile literary form—how
> old the novel actually is, shifts in dominant patterns, the art of
> word-play, connections between the novel and TV and videogames, and the
> novel in the classroom—glimpses of where and what it has been and where it
> may go in the future. The full issue is available online.
> >
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