Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

It's a novel.

Novel.

Roland Barthes once said of Flaubert's novels, Flaubert did not write a novel.

Education in an Uncertain World

Opacity has grown with complexity.

Larsson's first efforts at writing fiction were not in the genre of crime, but rather science fiction.

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

I was reading a novel then.

He has started to write a novel.

In 2009, Mandanipour published Censoring an Iranian Love Story , his first novel to be translated into English.

In the end, the politics of ambiguity may fail Rumsfeld all those high resolution photographs from Abu Ghraib are anything but ambiguous.

Hala Droubi offers another toll

The Magic Mountain (German Der Zauberberg ) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in November 1924.

What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery.

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

The English translation was nominated for the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Barry Award for Best First Novel.

Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

We would therefore like to avoid conceptual ambiguity in the Protocol.

The novel is Blinding, by Claudio Magris.

It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel.

The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy.

Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

But it's hard sometimes to talk about these things, so bear with me.

Ronald Reagan was a master of the well selected anecdote.

Cuando la revolución termine by Leila Nachawati Rego

Thomas Mann wrote the novel Death in Venice , published in 1912.

In one account, Francesco died in the plague of 1528.

Syria may pay a heavy price for that ambiguity.

Moreover, DNA has acquired a certain mystique in popular culture.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim 85th on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century.

When I write fiction I cherish elusiveness and changeability.

We were discussing Thomas Mann s Death in Venice.

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Her first novel, Mary Barton , was published in October 1848.

Novel a Forum on Fiction 30.2 (Winter 1997) 193 217.

Charlotte Temple is a novel by Susanna Rowson.

It is based on the 1946 book of the same name.

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn.

The reasons behind moving the prisoners between the two locations remain unclear.

In April 2008, freedom of speech and creativity in Egypt was hit in its core with the confiscation of Magdy El Shafee's adult graphic novel Metro.

Remnick s lead in was intended not to introduce a summary account of the brutal and violent history of the Chechen people, but to frame a detailed account of the specific history of the Tsarnaev family.

The Treaty is especially ambiguous where it uses the language of constitutions.

The role of GFPs tends to be ambiguous and ill defined.

There was general understanding that ambiguities could provide a possible basis or excuse for manipulation by the powerful.