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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 (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): 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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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 (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... The conflict between the search for knowledge and the inadequacies of narrative would appear to doom the encyclopedism of Rahman’s characters and readers alike, but the novel complicates this conclusion. Rather than refuting or embracing the pursuit of knowledge, In the Light fosters a uniquely postcolonial...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Rainbow” to Roberto Bolano's “2666.” New York : Bloomsbury . Ewijk Petrus van . 2011 . “ Encyclopedia, Network, Hypertext, Database: The Continuing Relevance of Encyclopedic Narrative and Encyclopedic Novel as Generic Designations .” Genre 44 , no. 2 : 205 – 22 . Garner Dwight...
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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
...Heidi E. Bollinger This article argues that Jonathan Safran Foer's postmodern Holocaust novel Everything Is Illuminated constitutes a fictional Jewish memorial book. Earlier critics have emphasized the magical realist elements of Everything Is Illuminated but have overlooked the influence...
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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
... that are quite literally too big to read—from experimental novels to television, film, and video games—signals that the megatext is an emergent form native to the era of neoliberalism. But what happens to other long forms, such as the twentieth‐century long poem, when written in an era of megatextuality? Rachel...
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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 (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...
Journal Article
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): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
...: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves . London : Methuen , 1987 . NOSTROMO AS FAIRY TALE EPIC
JED RASULA, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
In 1958 Albert J. Guerard, regarding Nostromo as "an important step in that
deformalization of the novel which [attracted] the twentieth century's greatest...
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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 (2009) 42 (3-4): 21–39.
Published: 01 September 2009
...
Tom Carson's novel Gilligan's Wake (2003) recounts key events in twenti-
eth-century American history through the voices of seven characters whose basic
traits sound awfully familiar, at least to viewers of a certain perennially syndicat-
ed maritime-themed 1960s sitcom. These narrators include...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 June 2002
... , 1994 . Blanchard W. Scott Scholars' Bedlam: Menippean Satire in the Renaissance . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell UP , 1995 . Bleiler E. F. Introduction . Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Vathek by William Beckford, The Vampyre by John Polidori...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 289–305.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Bovary” (2010).
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300 GENRE
Through a quasi-encyclopedic, deeply ironic use of a variety of clichés
and idées reçues, Flaubert deliberately...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2009
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ratives as the basis of a novel, he actually purchased the story, for instance, of
some Communists organizers who had been forced to hide out near the author's
home in Pacific Grove (Benson 291).1 Labor radicals who had been "helping
with strikes near Watsonville, in the Santa Clara valley...
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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...
