Awards

• Winner of ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book 2021 (United States)
• Winner of Waclaw Lednicki Award in the Humanities 2022 (United States)
• Winner of Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities 2022 (United States)

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[Bartoszynska] uses an impressively wide-ranging analytic toolkit in her readings with recurring tropes such as metafictionality, irony, ekphrasis, temporality, the role of prefaces and footnotes....Not only does her book estrange the idea of the novel, but it also makes us think about the ruts we are stuck in when approaching literary works from different traditions. -Kasia Szymanska, Literature and History For the researcher, the way this book continually presses against insufficient accounts of the novel is invigorating. So too, the close readings are clearly written by a scholar who loves the capacities of fiction in all their complexity. As a scholar and reader, for me this book's biggest payoff was its sustained discussion of worlding-specifically, via Eric Hayot, of the ways that occluded complexities of fiction bring new possibilities of thought into being. -Daniel Dewispelare, Studies in the Novel The wider implication of the analysis in Estranging the Novel is that we need an account of novels which are 'anomalous or strange' that considers their strangeness on its own terms rather than how it accords with or departs from a single history of the nove...l. [Bartoszynska] provides a compelling call for a new way of thinking about the novel's history and form, and the role of peripheral literatures within it.

[Bartoszynska] uses an impressively wide-ranging analytic toolkit in her readings with recurring tropes such as metafictionality, irony, ekphrasis, temporality, the role of prefaces and footnotes....Not only does her book estrange the idea of the novel, but it also makes us think about the ruts we are stuck in when approaching literary works from different traditions. -Kasia Szymanska, Literature and History For the researcher, the way this book continually presses against insufficient accounts of the novel is invigorating. So too, the close readings are clearly written by a scholar who loves the capacities of fiction in all their complexity. As a scholar and reader, for me this book's biggest payoff was its sustained discussion of worlding-specifically, via Eric Hayot, of the ways that occluded complexities of fiction bring new possibilities of thought into being. -Daniel Dewispelare, Studies in the Novel The wider implication of the analysis in Estranging the Novel is that we need an account of novels which are 'anomalous or strange' that considers their strangeness on its own terms rather than how it accords with or departs from a single history of the nove...l. [Bartoszynska] provides a compelling call for a new way of thinking about the novel's history and form, and the role of peripheral literatures within it. -Modern Language Review

[Bartoszynska] uses an impressively wide-ranging analytic toolkit in her readings with recurring tropes such as metafictionality, irony, ekphrasis, temporality, the role of prefaces and footnotes....Not only does her book estrange the idea of the novel, but it also makes us think about the ruts we are stuck in when approaching literary works from different traditions. -- Kasia Szymanska * Literature and History *

[Bartoszynska] uses an impressively wide-ranging analytic toolkit in her readings with recurring tropes such as metafictionality, irony, ekphrasis, temporality, the role of prefaces and footnotes....Not only does her book estrange the idea of the novel, but it also makes us think about the ruts we are stuck in when approaching literary works from different traditions. -- Kasia Szymanska * Literature and History * For the researcher, the way this book continually presses against insufficient accounts of the novel is invigorating. So too, the close readings are clearly written by a scholar who loves the capacities of fiction in all their complexity. As a scholar and reader, for me this book's biggest payoff was its sustained discussion of worlding-specifically, via Eric Hayot, of the ways that occluded complexities of fiction bring new possibilities of thought into being. -- Daniel Dewispelare * Studies in the Novel *

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Katarzyna Bartoszyńska is an assistant professor of English and women's and gender studies at Ithaca College.

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