... or readers back from “the point.” Children, however, often relish the long middle portions of their storybooks, wanting to see how events move forward and back, rather than just how they end. Poets, along with post-modern writers of fiction, also have more tolerance for the openness of narrative middles...

... with the cultural meanings of the evil sea monster in romanticism and the ancient Leviathan tradition. With origins tracing back to early Christian retellings of the ancient Greek Physiologus nautical myth, the legacy of that tradition of maligning the whale is immediately visible in contemporary writers...

..., celebrating caducity. Woolf presents a contraction of time, through the pulsating rays of the Lighthouse, that carries time to fulfillment and then falls back into potentiality/impotentiality. Lily's eventual embrace of her painting's inevitable destruction underscores the notion that creation and decreation...

... moment even to a reader to whom the political outcome is known. Thus Bowen's changes to narrative discourse produce a tension between the focalized present and the project of looking back at history, conveying an ambivalent mixture of lamentation, critique, and tentative responsibility that characterizes...

... back and forth between continents, often alongside their husbands, and created new avenues of cultural dialogue and commercial exchange. In particular this essay will examine the interactions of three women: the Armenian Christian maiden later identified as Mariam Khan, who was chosen by the Mughal...

... the importance of the global or “diasporic” connections back to Europe that British merchants made for the success of private trade. By contrast, this article argues for the importance of regionally situated commercial associations for the day-to-day functioning of private trade, particularly emphasizing...

... The title of Jesse Schotter's article in Genre volume XLII, numbers 1 & 2 was mistakenly listed as “Adaptation Liberal and Conservative: Benito Cereno and Robert Lowell's Literary and Radical Politics” in the Table of Contents and on the issue's back cover. The correct title, which appears...

... with deep roots going back to eighteenth-century print culture. The essay proposes that Homeland resembles many popular print war narratives that define their female protagonists, whether cross-dressing soldiers or spies, as specially positioned for the discovery of a war’s secret, untold history...

... as sufficient to the aspirations and desires of Black political life and reorients Black political subjectivity back to what Singh calls “Black worldliness.” Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8210750 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Abandoning This Sinking Ship America : The Classical...

... such as the one in which Ellison was raised. (His essay largely narrates “a personal dream” that symbolically equates Lincoln's assassination with the untimely death of Ellison's own father.) In obliquely writing back to his critics and to then‐regnant theories about Black lives, Ellison mingles quasi...

... then introduces each contribution to this special issue, which seeks to bring Guillory's theory of canon formation back into contemporary debates about the future of literary studies, the politics of cultural representation, and the state of the humanities in crisis. [email protected] justin.sider...

... choice as to what analytic lenses or worldviews can or should be defended. Even as literary studies continues to open up possible texts and traditions for study, the bottom has fallen out of a hiring market organized around periodizing categories and national literatures. Turning back to Wiredu...

.... I clambered in, struggling over the wheel well onto the back bench. She lis- tened to soft-rock from the passenger seat, bouncing to the beat as we moved on THE CUPOLA 523 to the next stop. The ladies jail, and four Columbians...

... of this essay. Genre, Vol. 45, No. 1 Spring 2012 DOI 10.1215/00166928- 1507056 © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 122 GENRE power of verse resides precisely in its bringing back into range and putting into arrangement those material aspects of language that may lie at cross...

... the evil genius. In all spiritualist thought, there is this necessity to put imagination into motion, even for Kant, even in the transcendental of the Third Critique. To come back to us, the point is not to describe this ability but to see how it works between the past and the future, on the one...

... of the original remaining, except at the beginning and end of the number" (179). In "Sonny's Blues," "Sonny went all the way back, he really began with the spare, flat state- ment of the opening phrase of the song" (205). This "spare, flat statement" is reminiscent of the "cool and moving" whistle...

... which the literary establishment has aided and abetted. With this insurgent body of prison writing, the question is not "how the incarcerated imagination has become part of Western ideas and literature" (Davies 7) but how these "out-law" texts speak back, re-inscribe rather than reify the generic...

... to write my dissertation back home on the Osage reservation. Imagine the difference between having at your disposal the library and archival resources of New York City and the library resources of Osage County, Oklahoma, which does not even have a junior col- lege. The resource I was going...

... . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Agnew Eleanor . 2005 . Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back . Lanham, MD : Ivan R. Dee . Armbruster Karla Wallace Kathleen R. , eds. 2001 . Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding...

..., looking back at viewers in a direction that implies profound nostalgia. While the wagon moves forward, advancing on the prairie, Laura and Mary stare behind at where they were. As this art suggests, place and space are essential to the Little House series. It is impossible to imagine the Ingalls...