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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 176–178.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Ron Day Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism . Pluto Press : London and Sterling, Virginia ISBN 0745316069 © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, ed. Katherine E. Kelly (Cambridge...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 105–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Middle- Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. In A Political Economy of Modernism, the third book of Ronald Schleifer s tril- ogy on forms of experience and knowledge in the modernist era, after Modernism and Time (2000) and Modernism and Popular Music (2011), the author offers a complex...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 435–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Roberto del Valle Alcalá Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” offer a fresh perspective on the endurance of class antagonisms in the Britain of the 1950s. These texts' radical import rests on their rejection of consensual discourses...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 19–38.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in its figures for class thinking a generic identity that is by turns stable and dynamic. Hardy's intuitions about serial and class thinking, which draw on nineteenth-century logic's decision problems and its discourse of “sets” and “classes” and their “members,” can be thus linked to questions of genre...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 81–92.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... In both cases, specific social and political contexts and their attendant challenges tend to disappear. In South African universities, this has the effect of occluding class, class inequality, and class struggle. To address the South African context, the essay suggests that the writing of Antonio Gramsci...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 145–178.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Silas centers on dislocation and efforts to fortify self‐identity and reestablish security. Le Fanu's narrator‐protagonist, the orphaned English or Anglo‐Irish heiress Maud Ruthyn, practices bodily self‐regulation and careful discernment to shore up boundaries of nationality and class that sustain her...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 265–284.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Jameson published a day novel in 1933 that draws attention to the paucity of memories in the time-starved working poor and challenges the implicit class distinction in identity formation in this genre. Jameson's A Day Off draws on Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway to demonstrate the class assumptions made...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 93–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., but at the same time, purely class or economic struggles do not necessarily alter noneconomic modes of class domination in the social and cultural sphere, nor the symbolic violence of social hierarchies such as race or gender. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 John...
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Genre (2018) 51 (3): 209–236.
Published: 01 December 2018
... history or identifying rigid classes of characteristics that define any given genre, this essay demonstrates that “genre performatives” allow for comparisons across the longue durée (long term) of literary history and across ostensibly unrelated literary texts. The authors under consideration include...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 141–159.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and envy over the liberties that the graffitist could take against middle-class sensibilities. Harrison found himself pulled between sympathy for a social world that was once his own and a deeper sense of alienation now that his education and his work as a poet had set him apart from that community...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 85–115.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... The authors find that there are two primary narrative modes in the port city film: a dominant mode in which gender, ethnic, class, and other identities bestowed by the geographic imaginary become inescapable, and a resistant or transformative mode in which characters are offered the opportunity to locate...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 233–256.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... Consequently, Theodore produces Samantha discursively as a sexed being through a language of affect. This language, which is central to Theodore's letters and to our understanding of Samantha's humanity, encodes the racial and class hierarchies that the film would otherwise seem to transcend. In making visible...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 179–207.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of what's classed as “poetry.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 genre history novel lyric theory Ezra Pound Claudia Rankine It might sound familiar, the way Ezra Pound declined to debate the distinction between poetry and prose in “The Serious...
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Genre (2011) 44 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
... . The article risks the claim that in Mailer's conflicted attempts to write the collective form we can not only locate stark evidence of the retreat of class-based models in the American political imaginary but also map the ways in which the novel genre adapts to political change. The paper also attends...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 239–268.
Published: 01 June 2012
... both to construct new models of female subjectivity based on rationality and fiscal discipline and to preserve existing racial, ethnic, and class taxonomies. Rather than simply exploring the effects of an increasingly technoscientific culture on literary formations, the author shows how these writers...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 June 2012
... ecology movement, Boyle is not interested in contributing to a neoconservative backlash against the counterculture; his critique instead involves recognizing how race, gender, and class privilege operate as important factors in environmentalism and how authoritarian structures often shape understandings...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... on the nature of these narratives as paradigmatic of the ages they strive to represent, particularly in their implied resonance on class and power structures: an age of nameless history, where individuality is characterized by blurred signifiers and collectivity is the founding element of everyday social...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... tale of domestic anxiety, a farce of jealous subterfuge. Nevertheless, the writing deals in intensities that disrupt the quotidian frame, particularly in scenes attending to the inanimate stuff of the middle-class lifeworld. Most Sansom criticism reads this paraphernalia according to first-wave...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
... form she imagines for herself. Her reproductions of comics covers and art works negotiate diverse visual vocabularies and their resulting aesthetic and historical scope. In filtering its story through a young protagonist who is marginalized on all counts (age, class, race, sex, sexual orientation...
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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2024
...‐economic developments: the removal of livestock from the American city, the postbellum incorporation of America's food industry, and the rapid expansion of middle‐class pet ownership. Wister's novel, the essay concludes, anticipates this cultural realignment with respect to animals and offers (even if only...
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