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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...
View articletitled, Encyclopedia, Network, Hypertext, Database: The Continuing Relevance of <span class="search-highlight">Encyclopedic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Narrative</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Encyclopedic</span> Novel as Generic Designations
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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...
View articletitled, The “Pursuit of Knowledge” and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial <span class="search-highlight">Encyclopedism</span> in Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of Paying Attention . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Martínez María-Ángeles . 2018 . Storyworld Possible Selves . Berlin : de Gruyter . Mendelson Edward . 1976 . “ Encyclopedic Narrative: From Dante to Pynchon .” MLN 91 , no. 6 : 1267 – 75 . Moretti Franco...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Hypertext, Database: The Continuing Relevance of Encyclopedic Narrative and Encyclopedic Novel as Generic Designations .” Genre 44 , no. 2 : 205 – 22 . Garner Dwight . 2018 . “ Milkman Slogs through Political and Cultural Tensions in Northern Ireland .” New York Times , December 3...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of information, but at the time he was writing they were also unexceptional in regard to gender. More plainly, he conveyed that encyclopedic narratives are men's business; Middlemarch or The Making of Americans need not apply. With a precious few exceptions, 5 scholarship that follows Mendelson has...
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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 (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...
View articletitled, Telling Stories That Never End: Valeria Luiselli, the Refugee Crisis at the US-Mexico Border, and the Big, Ambitious Archival Novel
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., will not facilitate the creation of a multidimensional world, according to Ercolino. Rather, this paranoid imagination must be complemented by the “encyclopedic mode.” This mode is a “particular aesthetic and cognitive attitude, consisting of a more or less heightened and totalizing narrative tension in the synthetic...
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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 (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... their perpetuation, and midrashically, democratically reading and writing again and again. Further, Drafts and DuPlessis's subsequent work indicate that when the long poem comes into contact with digital media, its encyclopedic impulse to include everything quite easily becomes megatextual. (I might even go so far...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 443–448.
Published: 01 December 2013
... with different vocabularies. It
is that H.D.’s writing transcends (52, 124), shatters (91), revises (21, 38), trans-
gresses (100), or transforms (157, 171) Western traditions (74), hierarchies (38),
violence (125), patriarchal narratives (7), authoritarianism, and fundamentalism
(141). It does so through...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 449–451.
Published: 01 December 2013
... writing transcends (52, 124), shatters (91), revises (21, 38), trans-
gresses (100), or transforms (157, 171) Western traditions (74), hierarchies (38),
violence (125), patriarchal narratives (7), authoritarianism, and fundamentalism
(141). It does so through its mode of meaning, which is variously...
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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 (2010) 43 (1-2): 115–136.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . “Technology as Hope,” Technology Review 108 . 4 ( 2005 ): 88 - 89 . Lumarith . Advertisement . “Plastics and Molded Products , 5 . July 1929 403 . Lynd Margaret . “Science, Narrative, and Agency in Gravity's Rainbow.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46 . 1 ( 2004...
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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 (2000) 33 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
... : Schocken , 1969 . Brooks Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . New York : Knopf , 1984 . Conrad Joseph . Joseph Conrad on Fiction . Ed. Wright Walter F. . Lincoln : U Nebraska P , 1964 . —, Last Essays . London : Dent , 1926...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 67–87.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Katarzyna Bartoszyńska This essay argues for the power of free indirect discourse in the third‐person narrative perspective to serve as a collective voice, encompassing a diversity of perspectives, through a reading of two novels by Olga Tokarczuk, Bieguni ( Flights ) and Księgi Jakubowe ( Books...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 289–305.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., Scientific Understanding, and the Power of Language . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . ------, “The Semiotics of Speculation: A. J. Greimas and the Example of Literary Criticism,” Genre , 42 ( 2009a ): 165 - 86 . ------, “Narrative Knowledge: Medicine, Scientific...
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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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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 June 2002
....” Film Theory and Philosophy . Ed. Allen Richard Smith Murray . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1997 . 42 - 59 . Derrida Jacques . “The Law of Genre.” Trans. Ronell Avital . On Narrative . Ed. Mitchell W. J. T. . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1981 . 51 - 77 . Doll...
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