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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
... Jack . Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales . Austin : U Texas P , 1979 . —, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization . New York : Wildman Press , 1983 . —, Ed., Victorian Fairy Tales...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Brian Attebery Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy‐Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re‐visioning. Such re‐visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 137–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . Bettelheim Bruno . The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales . New York : Knopf , 1976 . Bottigheimer Ruth B. “Fairy Tales, Folk Narrative Research and History.” Social History 14 . 3 ( 1989 ): 343 - 357 . Brinks Ellen . “Nobody's Children’: Gothic...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., in which Madame Lavoisier illustrated her husband’s experiments. Together they produced scientific work through intellectual and practical transmutation rather than children, as did Flamel and his wife, Perrenelle. Pinkus’s reading in chapter 4 of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale Rumpel- stiltskin...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., in which Madame Lavoisier illustrated her husband’s experiments. Together they produced scientific work through intellectual and practical transmutation rather than children, as did Flamel and his wife, Perrenelle. Pinkus’s reading in chapter 4 of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale Rumpel- stiltskin...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 309–329.
Published: 01 June 2002
... be informed by its context—obscures the aesthetic continuities between Wilde's understanding of pedagogy in his prison writing and his formulation of it in his earlier writing. Thus, the particular pedagogical demands of De Profundis remind me of, among other things, Wilde's fairy tales, which often...
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Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 45–70.
Published: 01 March 2005
... one instance of this transformation, the Wolf Man's memory of his witnessing of the primal scene gets metaphorized by way of an existing story—a fairy tale—familiar to his patient as a young boy: The Wolf and the Seven Goats. Thus, the wolves are the goats in the fairy tale, all of whom...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2015
... to refer collectively to fictional and histori- cal figures who identify variously as women, sisters, queens, inverts, and fairies or useshe and her pronouns to refer to themselves. Here trans feminine refers to people who avow a female or feminine identity despite receiving a male sex assignment. I...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
... an apparently supernatural agent is revealed to be wholly of this world) or to the merveilleux (narratives where the supernatural is part of the world depicted, such as in fairy tales or epic poems). fantastic apophasis Fitz-James O'Brien Ambrose Bierce Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma...
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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 March 2000
...: piety and justice, shall take root Elsewhere than in presumptuous fairy tales: Founded on fairy tales integrity Stands in no better case Than anything with error as its base. 26 GENRE G.W.F. Hegel. Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 383–408.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... THE FAIRY TALE OF SAMIZDAT The phenomenon or sensation of closedness naturally provokes attempts to find out what there is behind its limits, on the other side of the closed sphere. The regime of eyes wide shut, which functions as a kind of noetic instrument...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 329–346.
Published: 01 June 2006
... goals and quash her daughter's homosexuality. Fantasy and reality are sharply delineated in "Gen- esis," when the first fairy tale of the book begins, "Once upon a time there was a brilliant and beautiful princess" (9). By the end of "Exodus," Winterson com- ments, "I didn't understand the ground...
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 373–394.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and II of The Fairie Queene, The Mutability Cantos and Selections from the Minor Poetry . Ed. Kellogg Robert Steele Oliver . New York : Odyssey Press , 1965 . The Story of the British People in Pictures . London : Odham's , no date . Tilden William . Tennis A to Z . London...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2013
... skådespelare, och han ville presentera mig för mina vänner, som voro hans numera.” The name Cinnober refers to an E. T. A. Hoffman fairy story. 4. “Då klippte jag tråden, avbröt kontakten, och se, nu sinade han, kunde icke skriva på flera år.” STRINDBERG’S VAMPIRIC NARRATORS...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1982 . Lakoff George . “Structural Complacity in Fairy Tales.” The Study of Man 1 ( 1972 ): 128 - 50 . —. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About The Mind . Chicago : U of Chicago P...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 57–79.
Published: 01 March 2007
... forms of prose literature—the fairy tale, the legend, even the novella—is that it neither comes from the oral tradition nor goes into it. This distin- 62 GENRE guishes it from storytelling in particular. The storyteller takes what he tells from...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 213–237.
Published: 01 December 2013
....” In Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads , 111 – 16 . New York : Doubleday and McClure . ———. 1910 . “If.” In Rewards and Fairies , 181 – 82 . Garden City and New York : Doubleday, Page . ———. 1926 . “The Janeites.” In Debits and Credits . Garden City, NY : Doubleday . Koonse Emma...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 173–199.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Music Is My Mistress demonstrates jazz autobiography's double allegiance to autobiographical politics and poetics. The autobiography's opening lines estab- lish a fairy-tale version of predestination and thereby affirm and mock the process of singularization: "Once upon a time a beautiful young...
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Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 1–44.
Published: 01 March 2005
... "psychology" as much as "images from Romance" (74), in other words. J. Douglas Kneale consid- ers the middle section of the poem an "evocation of a pastoral, fairy world," but declines to elaborate the genre or mode to which the poem belongs, other than to say it "qualifies" as a "spot of time." He...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): v–xx.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of cultural capital?9 Do recognizable genres such as Realism, travelogues, and fairy tales 7 Perhaps the New Historicism's most compelling contribution to questions of form has taken the form of rigorously historicized analyses of popular subgenres: examples include Amy Kaplan on the adventure...