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SIR – I didn’t have a lot of time for Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, but I must admit that losing the confidence of Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is about as ringing an endorsement as it is possible to get.
The Global Novel: Mediations Hours: M 5:05-7:45 Nancy Armstrong, Roberto Dainotto Louis Althusser is known to have said that “ideology represents individuals’ imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence.” Assuming that statement is a pretty good fit for traditional literary realism as well, we feel it is time to rephrase this principle for the global novel — which would go something like this: “the global novel represents individuals’ imaginary relation to forms of mediation.” Rather than refer to life beyond the page as one organized around the home, the workpl...