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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2009
... . Williams Raymond , The Politics of Modernism . London : Verso , 1989 . Wegner Phillip , “ Jameson’s Modernisms; or the Desire called Utopia ,” diacritics ( 2007 ), 37 : 2 - 20 . THE SEMIOTICS OF SPECULATION: A. J.
GREIMAS AND THE EXAMPLE OF LITERARY
CRITICISM
RONALD...
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Genre (2019) 52 (1): 25–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Philip Joseph The Showtime series Homeland (2011–) has typically been seen as a spy thriller, an instance of “terrorism TV,” or an example of prestige television. This article takes a long view of Homeland , treating its heroine, Carrie Mathison, as a female warrior-adventurer, a character...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the genre as a backward-looking nostalgic form while also opening anew the question of regionalism’s complicated appeal for its contemporary readers. While beginning and ending with Sarah Orne Jewett’s representative remnant figure, Captain Littlepage, the essay also surveys several lesser-known examples...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of language and the sociopolitical system that has cast them out. It is a risk that challenges both the identity of the speaker and the social norms and responsibilities of the listener. Building on Dina Al-Kassim’s scholarship on the rant, this article uses examples from Greek journalism and prose...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 85–115.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and nonfictive examples of Chinese and British port city representations offering a very different vision of transnational contact—one that emphasizes a nation-building and growth “cleaned” of the human struggles for hybrid identity so vividly dramatized across port city fictions. The authors would like...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... is in fact, as this analysis shows, a complex narrative form that embodies some of the key questions of contemporary crime fiction research—questions about, for example, the role of place; the relationship between the local, the national, and the global; and the transnational horizon of contemporary crime...
FIGURES
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 157–180.
Published: 01 June 2011
...). The article addresses the use of Jackson's letters as an example of Deleuze and Guattari's “diagrammatic” method of mapping connections between disparate political and intellectual traditions. Analyzing how, in Jackson's letters, running becomes both a figure of thought and a political concept, this article...
Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Caroline Levine This essay contends that the most canonical realist novelists refused both close and distant reading. The realist novel seems to go out of its way to avoid statistics, but at the same time it insists that we must move beyond attending to a few exceptional examples. The problem...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 407–429.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to the reportage writing of Joseph Roth and Ilya Ehrenburg as representative examples of the conceptualizations of the “object” and the “fact” put forward by these movements, and the second half of the essay shows how and to what political effect works of reportage by Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin blur...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 393–403.
Published: 01 September 2011
... experiences with the health care and insurance systems). Narrative, in the form of a quest, is usually reserved to support medical research. The quest narrative has, for example, been a staple of both “personalized” and regenerative medicine. The quest narrative, paired with stories of dying patients, has had...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 405–423.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Janine Talley Public health promotion in the United Kingdom is pervaded by metaphor and narrative. This is largely unacknowledged and unexamined. Metaphor and narrative are important in shaping discourse and practice. Examples of their use are examined in a range of areas from health education...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 109–115.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Timothy S. Murphy In addition to providing brief summaries of the contributions to the issue, this essay draws a portrait of Antonio Negri as an example of the “free man” defined by Baruch Spinoza in part 4 of his Ethics . © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 This content is made freely...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 155–160.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Ugo Mattei Recent judgments of the Italian Constitutional Court and the transformation of the joint-stock company Azienda Risorse Idriche Napoli (ARIN, Naples Water Resource Company) into the public concern Acqua Bene Comune Napoli (Naples Water Common Good) are important examples of how social...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 265–284.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Elizabeth Covington The genre of the circadian or one-day novel, of which James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are the most famous examples, relies on John Locke's theory of individual identity composed of memories over time. The modernist writer and critic Storm...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Christopher M. Keirstead Footsteps travel writing—narrative accounts of journeys that retrace the routes of earlier travelers—constitutes one of the most prolific and controversial subgenres in contemporary travel writing. This article examines three broadly illustrative examples of footsteps...
Journal Article
Genre (2015) 48 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2015
... install to represent the cultural redefinition of “woman” and “man” in the early twentieth century. Aldous Huxley's Farcical History of Richard Greenow is an orienting example of this tendency. Jean Genet's Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs , in contrast, reflects a modernist current grounded in queer and trans...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 285–307.
Published: 01 December 2014
... The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) as a primary example of what politics cannot express. This essay takes up McCullers's novel as a case study, contrasting it with Sinclair Lewis's antifascist It Can't Happen Here (1935). Rather than treating fascism as an ideologically monolithic phenomenon, however, I...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 263–276.
Published: 01 September 2011
... organs, such as the ovaries, contributes to the problem. Metaphors can be reductive, but they can also generate a wide range of relationships between illness and the person experiencing it, as illustrated by examples including Margaret Atwood's short story “Hairball.” Simile, in particular, which...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
... there as complementary epistemic devices and empower poets by differently accommodating the complexities of pain. Metaphors become important when they offer patients a way to understand their conditions and when they enable doctors or caregivers to reimagine the patient's experience. One example of a narrative poem...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 335–347.
Published: 01 September 2011
... reason,” the chief example of which is the seasoned, successful physician. To this end, the article advocates the inclusion of the study of narrative and narrative knowledge in the training and practices of physicians. © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 The Chief Concern of Medicine:
Narrative...
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