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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 293–305.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Samuel Fallon Like the other volumes in Chicago's Trios series, Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies features an essay by each of its three authors, preceded by a jointly written introduction. In Anderson, Felski, and Moi, Character brings together three of the most eminent...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Megan Ward Critics have struggled to account for realist characters’ development on the repetitive timescale of Victorian domestic realism, which is devoted to representing the sameness of daily routine. This essay argues that this struggle stems from literary criticism’s implicit reliance...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to a knowledge of another person's character that is often termed “belief.” The author elaborates the complex role belief plays in British empiricist texts by John Locke and David Hume and in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century treatises on evidences directly influenced by empiricist philosophy, where one...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the dynamic and mutually constituting relations of character spaces as they are systematically emplotted within a narrative structure. In other words, character space refers to the way the depth (or flatness) of characterization relies on the amount of attention a character is given in the finite space...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 395–399.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the characterization Balkin sees as fundamental to twentieth-century dramatic imagination, the “spectral” appears throughout this book less often as a distinctive type of character, and more often as a theory of what characters are. Instead of the dramaturgy of psychological depth that we have come to expect from...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Ben De Bruyn This article examines Lucy Ellmann's encyclopedic novel Ducks, Newburyport (2019) in the context of debates on modernist legacies, animal characters, and climate fiction. It pays particular attention to the text's signature strategy of including anecdotes about nonhuman creatures...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Susan Kollin Set in 1970, T. C. Boyle's Drop City (2003) follows a group of commune dwellers who abandon the Golden State in search of a new Eden in the “last frontier.” For Boyle's characters, California is no longer a haven once their commune is condemned as a health hazard and bulldozed...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 111–134.
Published: 01 July 2020
... the remarkable torrents of his romans fleuve , this essay focuses on ones that appear as such within his novels: those used to designate his characters’ ages. Age has long been recognized as a central Trollopian concern, but exploring formally Trollope’s habitual use of age-related integers reveals Trollope’s...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2013
... and Culture: The Dance of Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Graphic Arts . New York : Garland . Gruber William E. 1994 . Missing Persons: Character and Characterization in Modern Drama . Athens : University of Georgia Press . Herman David . 2002 . Story Logic: Problems...
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Genre (2018) 51 (3): 237–266.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Jeffrey R. Wilson This essay theorizes a tradition in William Shakespeare’s drama involving some of his greatest and most captivating characters, including, among others, Richard III, Aaron the Moor, Shylock the Jew, Edmund the Bastard, Falstaff, Thersites, and Caliban. While they have been called...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
... characters’ analysis of everything from America’s intervention in Afghanistan to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem illustrates the ways in which the light of history, metaphor, and narrative (mis) shape the pursuit of knowledge, our own knowledge is limited by the history and metaphors of our twin narrators...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
... says, she does not characterize her writing as something that emerges from her, but rather claims that she emerges from it : “It's not like you, the author, make up the imaginary character, but rather, the character reaches out and calls forth an imaginary author” (Ozeki 2013d : 162). Perhaps...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the characters from infection and living death, (2) delineate a narrative space in which plot and character can develop, and (3) spatialize epistemological and aesthetic modes. Whereas hard breaches involve a narrative-threatening failure of diegetic barricades, the soft breach allows the zombie's destabilizing...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 383–404.
Published: 01 December 2015
... India. The author reads the male protagonists in the novel and the film and the film's implied viewers as improving subjects—characters and spectators that marry a capitalist's desire to turn waste to profit and a New Historical impulse to uncover hidden narratives and make them count. She argues...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 273–302.
Published: 01 December 2016
... that, far from being a venue for a singular authenticity, ethnic epistolary fiction offers the possibility for multiple iterations of subjectivity. In addition, ethnic literature likewise reinscribes the epistolary as an inherently inauthentic genre. In these novels the reader's contact with the characters...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 341–381.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is characterized by precisely the sort of
rigidity venerated by many of the novel’s characters and itself comprises a micro-
cosm of national veneration: “Boys in uniform, carrying guns, marched with
their eyes ahead of them, marched, their arms stiff” (Woolf...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
... analogue for the sense of political stalemate communicated
through certain popular detective texts. My interest lies in the ways in which the
police procedural’s literary realism, characterized by contemporary settings and
situations, complex interiority of character, and elements of social...
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Genre (2019) 52 (1): 25–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Philip Joseph The Showtime series Homeland (2011–) has typically been seen as a spy thriller, an instance of “terrorism TV,” or an example of prestige television. This article takes a long view of Homeland , treating its heroine, Carrie Mathison, as a female warrior-adventurer, a character...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 207–228.
Published: 01 December 2019
... by adopting twenty-first-century modes of global consumption. Jarmusch strikes a careful balance between his characters’ complicity with and critique of the world they feed on. In the end the film is about survival and a white Euro-American hegemony that refuses to die. Genre, Vol. 52, No. 3 December 2019 DOI...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Nir Evron This essay isolates, analyzes, and contextualizes a prevalent character type in nineteenth-century American fiction that it calls (following Ina Ferris) the “remnant.” Although remnants appear in the earliest American experiments in fiction, the type becomes truly ubiquitous in postbellum...
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