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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 (2004) 37 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 June 2004
... de la Serna describes the jazz orchestra as a kind of hammer that pulverizes heretofore stable subjectivities, causing them to fall into a state of formlessness: "The drop hammer of the jazz band orchestra undoes the stones of our soul, that are more difficult to dissolve than those in our...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
... leaving droppings on my bench The red books, signifying Maoist politics, also contrast with the grayness twice mentioned. He doesn’t argue with the young men who intrude their fiery ener- gies onto his old life; he simply doesn’t see them. Rather, he sees pigeons — the same...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of the sitting room of her house: And inside, below, always the tap-tap of the roof as the iron contracted, tap- tap like huge drops of rain falling individually, deliberately. But drops of rain would sizzle on the hot iron and roll off evaporating, hissing as they rolled. So merely...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
Published: 01 December 2019
... she recalls images of executions in the popular press: It came with a cruel burn- ing pain in her head, as if the words, The drop given was fourteen feet had been scratched on her brain with a hot needle (Conrad [1907] 2007: 212). Hav- ing internalized what David Prickett (2007) and William W...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
... activates Harry's “scientific pride” (204) and Hammond's inquisitive nature: the pair demonstrate the existence of the creature for the benefit of the bystanders through a simple experiment utilizing mass and gravity (dropping the creature on the bed in order to make the boards creak and an indent...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 157–180.
Published: 01 June 2011
... describing an operation by which the intensities of black resistance come to be expressed in writing: “We can connect the two, feeling and writing, just drop the syntax” (ibid.: 331). The specific feeling invoked here is linked first to Jackson’s total rejection of the terms...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 47–64.
Published: 01 March 2004
... tune soon echoes the experiences of Pentecostal worshippers "coming through" on the threshing floor, as the rhythm builds to a troubled and agonized crescendo, before dropping to an exhausted release. While Mingus's ecstatic shouts are, as Santoro notes, "encouragement" to Booker Ervin and John...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 327–331.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the novella's authorial narration and tak[es] up dramaturgic form instead,” while Melville “drop[s] the third-person narration focalized through Delano [and] interpolates Benito Cereno's deposition as the ‘key’ that will unlock the mystery of the revolt” (97, 88). Ross's focus on the “inversion of racial...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
...: “On August 7, 2014, the day I read on BBC News of the conviction of two Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity, one day after the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb dropped on populations, and three days after one hundred years from the beginning of World War I, I made this sentence” (47...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 495–509.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and suggest another double-bind: clinging to the past is risk- ing failure to survive in the present. When relatives visit, some are unable to drop the defensive mask and find it less wrenching to sever ties. Though one poet laments his daughter's growing up a stranger, men often narrate efforts to turn...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., scuba divers are attacked by a shark. A dropped camera takes pictures, and when the camera is retrieved, Police Chief Brody DEPTH PERCEPTION 245 develops the photographs. He takes one to a meeting of the Amity town council as evidence that swimmers...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 57–86.
Published: 01 March 2012
... face to face with evil” (ibid Moore herself, like the figure in Melencolia, struggled with dejection. Certainly many in the Depression were looking for a reason for living. Could art offer hope as well as pastoral escape? Dürer drops out of the poem after the third stanza, but he remains...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 245–259.
Published: 01 June 2004
... definition—the notorious "one-drop rulemost native-born U.S. Negroes," Murray explains, "far from being non-white, are in fact part-white" (79-80). Given those facts, racism to Murray's mind is just silly. And smart people, both black and white, realize that, Murray insists throughout his work...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 31–55.
Published: 01 March 2007
... farmland and a subject in its own right, its sublimity diminishing the visual power of the settled landscape. Human agency is evident in the carefully tilled fields. [But] the drop into distant agricultural prospect is precipitous rather than gradual" (42). The two planes of the painting...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2004
... . `` Jazz Prosodies: Orality and Textuality .'' Callaloo 25.1 ( 2002 ): 66 - 91 . Kelley William Melvin . A Drop of Patience . 1965 . Rpt. New York : Ecco , 1996 . Kerouac Jack . '' Essentials of Spontaneous Prose .'' A Casebook on the Beat . Ed. Parkinson Thomas...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 107–126.
Published: 01 September 2006
...," a difference of just under 20%. On January 8, 2007, "haiku" had increased to 1,840,000 while the sonnet had dropped to 1,310,000. Source: www.google.com, 7 Dec. 2006 and 8 Jan. 2007. 2 There were 2314 available copies of books published between 2000 and 2006 with "sonnet" or "sonnets" in the title...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 363–380.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to keep going. But her car and Darrelanna are also unlike, because if her Toyota Tercel needed a new engine, they could “plop” one in, and it would still work because “the body in this car is still good.” Darrelanna is a different matter, a more seriously malfunctioning machine. They cannot drop...
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Genre (2006) 39 (4): 105–124.
Published: 01 December 2006
... breeze and bright moon lingered together. I reminisce the native village far away, cut off by clouds and mountains. 21 The translators of the poem changed the original character "W' (front of a garment) to "Mi" (drop), perhaps to make the ending character...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 137–144.
Published: 01 July 2013
... composition as it was represented in factories and working-­class communities. A sense of real intellectual thrill when that docu- ment dropped through our letterbox. Already I was a translator, but here was a whole pulsating political tradition waiting to be translated — and translated into action...