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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Petrus Van Ewijk In 1976 Edward Mendelson introduced the terms encyclopedic narrative and encyclopedic novel in two articles on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and offered a definition that seems to be primarily geared toward totality. The history of the encyclopedia, however, shows a transition...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Benjamin Bergholtz The author argues that Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) is an encyclopedic narrative that encourages and interrogates the pursuit of knowledge. Rahman achieves this feat by creating a deceptive dialogue revolving around knowledge and narrative. While his...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Ivan Delazari This article explores the “encyclopedic” properties of Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016), seeking to define the novel as inherently comparative —that is, providing, in Edward Said's words, “a comparative or, better, a contrapuntal perspective” on the world...
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“The Persnicketiness of Memory”: Jonathan Safran Foer's Audaciously Imaginative Jewish Memorial Book
Genre (2012) 45 (3): 443–469.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the Jewish memorial book, a literary genre both testimonial and folkloric, on Foer's depiction of shtetl life and its destruction during the Holocaust. Jewish memorial books, encyclopedic record books composed by Holocaust survivors, memorialize, with deep nostalgic longing, the lost inhabitants and culture...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Ben De Bruyn This article examines Lucy Ellmann's encyclopedic novel Ducks, Newburyport (2019) in the context of debates on modernist legacies, animal characters, and climate fiction. It pays particular attention to the text's signature strategy of including anecdotes about nonhuman creatures...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Rewarding .” Washington Post , December 4 . www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/milkman--one-of-the-most-challenging-books-of-the-year--is-also-one-of-the-most-rewarding/2018/12/04/c3be904c-f764-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html . Clark Hilary A. 1992 . “ Encyclopedic Discourse...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
... narration. It is also a “big, ambitious novel,” one that mobilizes maximalist and encyclopedic narrative tendencies to confront the challenge of telling the knotty, bifurcating, ongoing story of the US-Mexico border crisis. Scholarship has suggested that one of the strengths of encyclopedic fiction, one...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... novel—length, encyclopedism, and so on—so important is how they facilitate the level of readerly engagement required to get through a lengthy novel. Due to her focus on the reader, Ryan ( 2015 : 9) defines immersion as “the experience through which a fictional world acquires the presence...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in a variety of encyclopedic literary projects during the post-1945 period. Perhaps a realization that the contemporaries of maximalist novelists should also include writers of long poems, for example, the writers Keller discusses in her book—Beverly Dahlen, Sharon Doubiago, Rita Dove, Rachel Blau DuPlessis...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 253–282.
Published: 01 June 2002
... completely unoriginal.2 More than anything else, this problem illus-
trates—as Lipking means it to—how limited is the point of view of literary repu-
tation. It is obvious that Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) is,
of its kind, a masterwork, and that its kind is the encyclopedic...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 443–448.
Published: 01 December 2013
... 1, “Materials,” by far the shorter part, is an overview of useful material
resources on H.D.’s life, work, editions, and reception. Debo and Vetter add the
responses to the questionnaire they sent to selected teachers of H.D. to their own
encyclopedic knowledge for a truly valuable, detailed...
Journal Article
Genre (2013) 46 (3): 449–451.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., is an overview of useful material
resources on H.D.’s life, work, editions, and reception. Debo and Vetter add the
responses to the questionnaire they sent to selected teachers of H.D. to their own
encyclopedic knowledge for a truly valuable, detailed, yet accessible resource.
Subdivided into two...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 115–136.
Published: 01 March 2010
....
2. Gravity’s Rainbow
One of the most prominent features of Gravity’s Rainbow is that it offers
a dense matrix of technological data, much of it daunting to literary critics. In
response to this encyclopedic approach, much of the criticism on the novel is
quick to point out that, like...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2004
... ( 20 août - 2 septembre 1997 ): 41 - 42 . English translation, ``Play—The First Name,'' in this issue of Genre . Ducrot Oswald Todorov Tzvetan . Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language . Trans. Porter Catherine . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1979...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2020
... limited in its presentation of visual detail. Contrary to its claims of encyclopedism, one could not, for instance, draw a picture of a Dublin street based only on what the narrative describes. It is like the world of the novel were on the other side of a screen, beyond which we see but those glimpses...
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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of the particular national spirits, the judg-
ment of the world" (Hegel, Encyclopedia 146 and 255). Thus in Europe, it was
the dialectic that proposed time to thought as its own proper dimension. The
dialectic, however, before becoming the encyclopedia of absolute spirit, was
Encyclopedism, the thought...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., in a variety of ways.
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White artfully shifts registers several times, each of which retrace hith-
erto undisclosed events from a new perspective. In Moby-Dick Melville practices an inimitable pro-
crastination in his encyclopedic anatomization of whales and whaling, a distended...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 289–305.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Bovary” (2010).
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Through a quasi-encyclopedic, deeply ironic use of a variety of clichés
and idées reçues, Flaubert deliberately...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 21–39.
Published: 01 September 2009
... narrative, its fearless dismantling and attempted recon-
struction of an American grand narrative, and its encyclopedic employment of
literary, television, and cinematic history. And maybe—hopefully—it's also
putting to bed the idea that pop-centric American postmodern fiction can't also
be deeply...
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