Nicholas Paige
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Paige |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Paige |
| SIGNATURE | PAIGE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2781-3517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Quarreling with the Canon
Technologies of the Novel: Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems
The Artifactuality of Narrative Form
Author(s): Paige, N | Abstract: When literary scholars analyze narrative personhood historically, they typically see periods, explained as an effect of deeper psychosocial mutations. Thus the dominant first person of the eighteenth century is the counterpart to a new bourgeois subject, while the third-person omniscience of the nineteenth might reflect an age of increasing state control. The article argues that only our impressionistic use of most…
Examples, Samples, Signs: An Artifactual View of Fictionality in the French Novel, 1681-1830
Historians of the novel typically use examples—a few mostly canonical works—to establish their desired narrative. The problem is that these chosen novels function less as true examples—representatives of a class of objects—than as signs of the invisible process (conceptual or socio-subjective) that is the coming of Modernity. This study approaches the novel’s history, and specifically the oft-debated question of its developing fictionality, by us…
The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography (review)
Bardot and Godard in 1963 (Historicizing the Postmodern Image)
The photographic image-conceived as .at, reproducible, and mobile-is integral to Fredric Jameson's influential description of the postmodern as marking an evacuation of historical thinking. This essay argues that Jean-Luc Godard's early work, and his 1963 film Le Mé;pris (Contempt) in particular, represents a sustained attempt to use images to promote a type of historical thinking for which Jameson's definition of the postmodern, however relevant…
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Bardot and Godard in 1963 (Historicizing the Postmodern Image)
The photographic image-conceived as .at, reproducible, and mobile-is integral to Fredric Jameson's influential description of the postmodern as marking an evacuation of historical thinking. This essay argues that Jean-Luc Godard's early work, and his 1963 film Le Mé;pris (Contempt) in particular, represents a sustained attempt to use images to promote a type of historical thinking for which Jameson's definition of the postmodern, however relevant…
The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography (review)
Examples, Samples, Signs: An Artifactual View of Fictionality in the French Novel, 1681-1830
Historians of the novel typically use examples—a few mostly canonical works—to establish their desired narrative. The problem is that these chosen novels function less as true examples—representatives of a class of objects—than as signs of the invisible process (conceptual or socio-subjective) that is the coming of Modernity. This study approaches the novel’s history, and specifically the oft-debated question of its developing fictionality, by us…
The Artifactuality of Narrative Form
Author(s): Paige, N | Abstract: When literary scholars analyze narrative personhood historically, they typically see periods, explained as an effect of deeper psychosocial mutations. Thus the dominant first person of the eighteenth century is the counterpart to a new bourgeois subject, while the third-person omniscience of the nineteenth might reflect an age of increasing state control. The article argues that only our impressionistic use of most…
Technologies of the Novel: Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems
Quarreling with the Canon
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