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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 (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 (2010) 43 (1-2): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2010
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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 (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 (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
... streamline the genre's forebears to a handful of nineteenth-century texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins. This approach is simplified, Priestman admits, but by casting our nets too broadly in search of other trace elements, we risk imposing “a model of quasi...
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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 (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
... to interpret human
political life. Published in 1916, the tale owes a debt to the fiction of Edgar Allan
Poe. Compare, for example, Lovecraft’s (373, 377) use of prepositional phrases
to open sentences, “Of . . . ,” with Poe’s (1984, 262) “Ligeia”: “Of her family — I
have surely heard her speak.” Yet...
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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...
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 March 2012
... form. Dickinson was, she
points out, “an enthusiastic reader” of contemporary ballads and ballad collec-
tions of the antebellum era, as were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and
other writers who remained important to modernists. Unlike those other writers,
however, Dickinson’s “greatness...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the Anglosphere but with foreign settings and foreign detective protagonists—in short, the rise of the foreignized crime novel . This foreignizing tendency is as old as crime fiction itself as a self-identifying genre; after all, Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin trilogy (1841–44) has a Parisian setting and a French...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 449–478.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Studies 15 . 3 ( 1992 ): 344 - 65 . Hirsch Adam Jay . The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America . New Haven : Yale UP , 1992 . Hochfield George . “Anti-Thoreau.” Sewanee Review 96 . 3 ( 1988 ): 433 - 43 . Hyman Stanley Edgar . “Henry...
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 373–394.
Published: 01 September 2004
... . Pinsky Robert . Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton UP , 1975 . Poe Edgar Allan . The Portable Poe. Sel. , Ed. and Intro. van Doren Stern Philip . New York : Viking Press , 1945 . Richardson Samuel . Pamela . Intro. Kinkead...
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