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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Edgar Garcia [email protected] Chadwick Allen , Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 A few years ago, before the pandemic, I was invited...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Elizabeth Klaver The cemetery is often portrayed in literary and cultural works as a heterotopic site for the other, awash in gothic or melodramatic features. This essay argues that Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters and act 3 of Thornton Wilder's Our Town offer something quite different...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Strindberg’s vampiric stage narrators as he transitions from naturalism to the expressionism of his later work. The main vampire in The Dance of Death is Edgar, an old artillery captain. With his wife, Alice, a former actress, Edgar lives in the tower of a granite fortress on an island. Within...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 125–147.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Kelly Anspaugh © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 WORKS CITED Amper Susan . “Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in ‘The Black Cat.’” Studies in Short Fiction 29 . 4 ( 1992 ): 475 - 85 . Bonaparte Marie . The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 247–252.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Alanna Hickey Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847201 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Reviews Cluster: Poetics alanna hickey Edgar Garcia, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. In 1965...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
... this choice is made, the fantastic gives way either to the étrange (this would be the case of Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” where an apparently supernatural agent is revealed to be wholly of this world) or to the merveilleux (narratives where the supernatural is part...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War . New York : Three Rivers . Browning John Edgar . 2011 . “Survival Horrors, Survival Spaces: Tracing the Modern Zombie (Cine)Myth.” Horror Studies 2 , no. 1 : 41 – 59 . Charles Ron . 2011 . “Zone One, by Colson Whitehead...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... themselves when standard expressions of grievance and suffering are not viable? For many the answer is the rant. Writers such as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Samuel Beckett have famously employed the rant in manifestos, short fiction, and novels. However, according to Dina Al- Kassim...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 215–238.
Published: 01 March 2012
... unlike anything else in the book. It brings together a radio- ministry voice, the poet’s own voice, the voices of Edgar and Gloucester in Lear, and the voice of the psalms (“praise is the gate We can’t sent this message no positive way hallelujah glory...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Green . 1844 . Aids to English Composition . New York : Harper and Bros . Poe Edgar Allan . 1850 – 56 . “Longfellow's Ballads.” In The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe , edited by Griswold Rufus W. , 4 vols ., 3 : 363 – 74 . New York : J. S. Redfield . Porter...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2010
... have been acknowledging Edgar Allan Poe’s “revolutionary achievement” (Tani 3) of drawing upon the Gothic in order to fuse both the rational and the irrational in his first three detective novels. While the ratiocinative mysteries so popular in the predominantly British Golden Age of the 1920’s...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 105–129.
Published: 01 March 2007
... . Brantlinger Patrick . Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 . Cornell University Press , 1988 . Burroughs Edgar Rice (1914) . At the Earth's Core . New York : Ace Books , 1978 ---. (1915) . Pellucidar . New York : Ace Books , 1978 ---. (1919...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 179–203.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Fisher . New York : Oxford University Press . Twain Mark . 1987 . Mark Twain's Letters . Vol. 1 . Edited by Branch Edgar Marquess , Frank Michael B. , and Sanderson Kenneth M. . Berkeley : University of California Press . Tynianov Yuri . (1919/21) 2019...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
... romances) but even more significantly illuminates how “alternative conceptions of fiction's value and purpose” emerge from this process of generic normalization (127). For example, in one of my favorite chapters, Koenigs looks at Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Robert Montgomery...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 395–399.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Balkin demonstrates that they show up in Ibsen too, as well as in works by Oscar Wilde, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and the study's one noncanonical (and American) playwright, Arthur Kopit. But while Strindberg's “vampiric” figures, such as Edgar in The Dance of Death , offer the clearest embodiments...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2001
... invented by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841 and popular- ized by Arthur Conan Doyle in the 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century. As a result, readers today are likely to overlook the fact that many of GENRE XXXIV - SPRING-SUMMER 2001 - 81-100. COPYRIGHT © 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to seduce another man without Penric's true gender being revealed. The converse of this trope is the distribution of selfhood among seemingly separate individuals and multiple bodies. Again, Edgar Allan Poe offers early examples not only in his twins Roderick and Madeleine Usher but also in stories...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 352–357.
Published: 01 June 2006
...- tor's limitations in choosing to explore only this single issue of morality. Section three includes five more essays that marry classic noir films to a particular philosophical concept. Paul A. Cantor traces the biography and work of Edgar G. Ulmer back to German Expressionist cinema...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 135–158.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and History 4 , no. 2 : 209 – 64 . Poe Edgar Allan . 1984 . Poetry and Tales . Edited by Quinn Patrick . New York : Library of America . Price Fiona . 2016 . Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce, and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott . Edinburgh : Edinburgh...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 83–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... restates the title of Exhibit One, "I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE," sixteen years later in her essay on Edgar Allan Poe, "Through a Text Back- wards," and the Freudian connotation is clear: '"I have been here before.' In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud says this feeling of familiarity means that we...