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The novel has perhaps always wanted to refer; critics have balked.In Bartlett s application of language philosophy to fiction, and of fiction to language philosophy, we have a chance to reconsider the problematic inheritances of both the referential illusion and thing theory. This will be a highly generative work. --Elaine Freedgood, New York University

Object Lessons is fascinating and powerfully argued. Bartlett s understanding of contemporary work on reference is impeccable, and she uses the theory of the novel to articulate new insights into the nature of reference itself. This book carves out an important possibility for putting philosophy and literary studies in touch with one another. --John Gibson, University of Louisville

Object Lessons is a tightly argued set of reflections on reference and the novel form. It is also a refreshing, original, and insistently smart example of interdisciplinary scholarship, bringing tools from the analytic philosophy of language to literary study seriously and without compromise.The result is an altogether new account of the way that the novel stands in relation to the world. --Jonathan Kramnick, Yale University

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Jami Bartlett is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

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