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Journal Article
Genre (2013) 46 (3): 213–237.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Cecily Devereux This article considers Helen Fielding's two Bridget Jones novels as foundational texts in the genre of chick lit as it “produces, disseminates, and proliferates certain feminist and liberal subjectivities” (Butler and Desai 2008, 5). The focus is on tracing in these two novels...
Journal Article
Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 479–493.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and were jumping into the sunrise
. Our music was catching on, drawing the pimps and prostitutes, dealers, pro-
moters, pool-hall players, and the white middle-class chicks, the rebels who
were turning away from secretary gigs . . . pulled by the realness of the black
music...
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 June 2012
... in rhetoric associated with the counterculture, especially in
the slang terms chicks and cats, words that naturalize the status of each group
THE BROMANCE OF A. R. AMMONS & HAROLD BLOOM
BAD TRIPS IN T. C. BOYLE’S DROP CITY 341
and that carry significant meaning...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Consequen-
tial Pictures backlot. His abilities as an actor, which led to Webb Traverse’s death
earlier in the novel, make Hollywood and all its corruption a fitting home for
him. Lake becomes a washed-up Hollywood housewife who lives in a bungalow
with her elusive husband and broken dreams. Chick’s...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (2): 233–256.
Published: 01 July 2023
... dictate a letter as someone named Maria, Paul, the receptionist at BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com , played by Chris Pratt, tells him “I'd be stoked to get a letter like that. I mean, if it was from a chick. But if it was written by a dude, but from a chick, it would still be sick. But like a sensitive...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
... in real time by a nest camera in Washington, DC, like their real-life counterparts in the National Arboretum. Ellmann's protagonist follows this online feed: “We like the eaglecam , . . . Gillian's keeping an eye on the eagle chicks with me this year” (245). In accordance with Heise's remarks, the story...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 521–535.
Published: 01 September 2002
... make a cawl. Can I make a cawl heah?"
The marshal snorted in disgust, walking towards me with chains in hand. A
chick in a hurry. Patterned black stockings under a proper navy skirt, a sexy yup-
pie bitch; she came close to put the chains around my waist and I breathed
deeply from a haze...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 June 2000
... Gentleman! Wonder of
the Age So is the heroic Glenarvon addressed You wicked creature to
go about seducing & stabbing & rebelling, and then to make even the very chick-
ens of Belfont run after you."21 But Lamb effectively distinguishes between
Byron's revolutionary charade, which, she implies...
Journal Article
Genre (2004) 37 (1): 65–83.
Published: 01 March 2004
... singer could have pulled it off. Remember that she began her career
singing swing as the canary for the last incarnation of Chick Webb's big band.
After Webb's death and the eventual dissolution of the band, she toured first with
the popular Ink Spots, but then came under the sway of Dizzy...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 61–78.
Published: 01 September 2009
..." ("Private Hells Although Karen Joy Fowler's mainstream
crossover in some respects anticipated Lethem's, her love of comedic structures
frequently puts her at risk of being reclassified as chick-lit or YA. And the most
referential of storytellers - Howard Waldrop, Guy Davenport - unable to sacri-
fice...
Journal Article
Genre (2016) 49 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 April 2016
... as the female berufsroman, or novel of women’s professional development, which emerged
in post – World War I France. Also notable are career novels, serialized novels primarily published
from the 1930s to the 1960s. Seen as the precursor to the chick lit phenomenon, a typical career novel
follows...
Journal Article
Genre (2006) 39 (1): 89–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... class queer I
wonder how many other dumb chicks he's got working for him?" (55) Richie's
and Ted's dalliances provide the narrative momentum for Alice and Chris to run
away together to San Francisco, ostensibly to give up drugs and avoid retribu-
tion after betraying Richie and Ted...
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 December 2012
...” and “my chicks.” See Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos’s
endnotes to Majic Ring (H.D. 2009a, 196, 206).
400 GENRE
language. Sword tropes the relation of separation between signifier and signified
by the man’s rejection of the woman and by spectrality. It struggles to establish
a meaningful relationship...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 27–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Britain’s grasping hands from seizing. (Roxton actually searches for
and discovers the diamonds while out to capture a “baby chick” specimen for
Challenger.) It hardly matters that the dinosaurs are unaware of the economic
potential over which they roost and are incapable of utilizing...
