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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 83–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Lynn (eds). The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism . Series: Twentieth-Century Literature . Essex : Addison Wesley Longman , 1997 . Britzolakis Christina . “ Angela Carter’s Fetishism .” In The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 145–166.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the Letter in the Unconscious .” Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection . 138 - 168 . Print . ---. “ The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious .” Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection . 281 - 312 . Print . Ludwig Sämi . “ Ishmael Reed’s Inductive Narratology...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 355–382.
Published: 01 June 2002
... . Hawk Tony . Between the Boardslides and Burnout: My Notes from the Road . New York : ReganBooks , 2002 . —. with Mortimer Sean . Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder . New York : ReganBooks , 2000 . Heller Chaia . Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature . New...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 231–253.
Published: 01 July 2014
... for enactments of homosexual desire. In partial agreement with Rechy, Steward nevertheless insisted on differentiating between real-world police and the cops of fantasy. Through his pornography, Steward suggests that in the context of fantasy the figure of the cop enforces not juridical law but genre, which...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 383–404.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the ethical intent behind such reclamation efforts is commendable, these efforts enact their own version of a capitalist improvement ideology—the imperative to turn all things, even “waste,” to profit or good account. This essay explores the tension between the desire to account for experiences that fall...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 April 2016
... early texts is a desire to re-create the security in the darkened theater he experienced as a child, a security grounded in the very real and material space of the movie house, by imitating the process of film fan spectatorship in his texts' formal and aesthetic construction. Puig as a young queer film...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 319–342.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the supervision that he desired in television. Thus while “Of This Time, of That Place” was an antimiddlebrow polemic, Channing drew on the conventions of golden age drama anthologies and was the very embodiment of middlebrow culture. As a script consultant, Trilling resisted these changes, but his advice...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2020
... as sufficient to the aspirations and desires of Black political life and reorients Black political subjectivity back to what Singh calls “Black worldliness.” Copyright © 2020 University of Oklahoma 2020 African American literature bildungsroman minor character Black worldliness negative dialectic...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 143–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Emily Setina In 1957, a young John Ashbery reviewed Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation for Poetry magazine. Titled “The Impossible,” the essay explores difficulty as a means of readerly intimacy and participation. Ashbery's later “G.M.P.” describes the pathos of the writer's impossible desire...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 189–211.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Elizabeth Bennet's desires, we see them actualized in the same way that domestic life is constructed in the Bennet home—through repetitive and circular movements that straddle the divide between the concrete and the abstract. Mining the creative tension between physical movement and narrative movement...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 April 2014
... deep nostalgia in an aesthetics of homemaking, encouraging young readers to mourn for a vanished past through their carefully crafted lexicon of desire and intimacy. The building of the little house itself is a production of snugness made possible by the theft of Osage lands. Ultimately, Prairie...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 171–197.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of utopian desire, illuminating the persistence of the social beyond neoliberal privatization and constructing a horizon in which the United States is irreducible to capitalist and statist imaginaries. More specifically, I show how Burroughs elaborates and complicates the concept of the common as proposed...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Debra Shostak Isabel Coixet's 2008 adaptation of Philip Roth's Dying Animal (2001) signals in its title, Elegy , the conceptual divergence of the film from its source. Roth's title expresses the inescapable reality of the mortal body, its desires, decay, and disappearance; Coixet turns from...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and in revealing via film noir techniques how much our desire for generic platitudes is at once misdirected and unavailing. While the Western refuses to remain dead, as the Coens' own version of True Grit (2010) reminds us, their earlier version of No Country confirms McCarthy's brilliant exposure of the skeletal...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2015
... depicts. Paying close attention to the persistence of a Cumbrian custom that has undergone considerable mutation over the centuries prompts us to rethink “Rural Architecture” itself as a local phenomenon whose distinguishing character rests in its anachronistic desire to survive in a hostile imperial...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 303–329.
Published: 01 December 2016
... between personal desire and social duty is reimagined to encompass a more quotidian type of tragic hero, and that in Eliot's reworking of tragedy, compromise is not its antithesis but its harbinger. The tragic figures of Armgart and Middlemarch , while distinct from classical models, nevertheless find...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 331–357.
Published: 01 December 2016
... with the present. Focusing on her last collection of poetry, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011), I reconsider how Rich's late lyrics articulate the desire for and aesthetic difficulty of what the anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli calls the “possibility of being otherwise” under late liberalism. Rich's late...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to discover truths. Belief, in these novels, is frequently more correct than the evidence marshaled by the police. That this is so often the case suggests an idealistic desire to imagine continuities and forms of knowledge more complete than those accommodated by the epistemology of detection. Geoffrey...
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Genre (2015) 48 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 July 2015
... with a failure to penetrate these locales commercially and could signal a desire to implement a model of colonization based on production by imported unfree or migrant populations. Scholars of the Dutch North American settlements, where the word wilden was the most common term for indigenous Americans, should...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2017
... by Miller Jacques-Alain . Translated by Grigg Russell . New York : Norton . ———. 2013 . Le Séminaire livre VI, Le désir et son interprétation 1958–1959 (Desire and Its Interpretation) . Edited by Miller Jacques-Alain . Paris : Éditions de La Martinière . ———. 2014 . Anxiety...