...-with-colson-whitehead/ . “The Only Metaphor Left”: Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and Zombie Narrative Form carl joseph swanson, university of kansas Zone One is doubtless a zombie novel. That is not to say that the novel is about zombies; zombie narratives rarely are.1 However...

...Adam Grener This essay examines the pervasive language of chance in Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (1869) and argues that the novel's competing models of probability reveal tensions in the bildungsroman form. Although Phineas's advancement has been read as demonstrating Trollope's investment...

...Sarah Allison This essay places Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë in the context of responses it provoked from contemporaries, including their retrospective rereadings of Jane Eyre . By 1857, the novel form had come a long way from its eighteenth-century origins in the roman à clef...

... the "real" China doesn't work precisely because it reproduces the polarity of modernism vs. realism, an opposition that is already part and parcel of modernism as ideol- ogy. Rather, an alternative approach would be to look at the global circulation of certain Asian or Chinese cultural forms...

...Arnold Pan, Ph.D. Review of Lye Colleen , America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 ( Princeton University Press , 2005 ) COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 REVIEWS 145 Review...

...Wenxin Li Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature , edited by Zhou Xiaojing Najmi Samina . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2005 . 296 pages . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 148 GENRE Form...

... : 2002 ). Veyne Paul . Kak pishut istoriiu: Opyt epistemologii ( Moscow , 2003 ). a New aNThroPology of culTure I ntroduC t I on I n the form of a manI festo1 iriNa Prokhorova novoe lIteraturnoe obozrenIe (neW lIterary observer...

...: ‘A proposition—that's something very queer!’—And the latter is unable simply to look and see how propositions really work. The forms that we use in expressing ourselves about propositions and thought stand in the way.” 1 For Wittgenstein, the problem is not that it is wrong to ask what propositions...

...Louise Hornby Cara Lewis , Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 Cara Lewis's Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism proceeds from Virginia Woolf's ([1925...

...Kelly Swartz Zitin is an associate professor of English, so we might expect her to focus on literary form. We would be wrong. Because her thrilling account of Hogarth's Analysis is the foundation of her book, she focuses on form as understood in that treatise, exclusively with reference...

...Tom Eyers [email protected] Anahid Nersessian , The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 One could do a serviceable job of narrating the history of professional anglophone...

... . `` Border Crossings in Audre Lorde's Zami: Triangular Linkages of Identity and Desire .'' MaComère . 4 ( 2001 ): 130 - 41 . Browdy de Hernandez Jennifer . `` The Plural Self: The Politicization of Memory and Form in Three American Ethnic Autobiographies .'' Memory and Cultural Politics: New...

... 1995 . Cassirer Ernst . The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms , Manheim Ralph , trans. ( New Haven , Yale University Press , 1953 ), vol. 3 . Chauvier Jean-Marie . “Russia: Nostalgic for the Soviet Era,” Le Monde Diplomatique ( March 2004 ). Cherniak M...

...Alexandra J. Gold This article considers the Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley and the visual artist Robert Indiana’s 1968 collaboration Numbers . Featuring Indiana’s ten screen prints of the cardinal digits 0–9 and Creeley’s poetic meditations on the same theme, the book form provokes a unique...

...Michael Martel This article examines Edwardian “radioactive fiction”—narratives about radium’s transformative political implications—to demonstrate how radioactivity shaped narrative form and English politics between 1898 and 1914. Recent scholarship on this period’s literary engagements...

...Ben Glaser Lucy Alford , Forms of Poetic Attention , New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2020 by University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847188 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Reviews Cluster: Poetics ben...

...Ben Parker Anna Kornbluh , The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2019 . Copyright © 2020 by University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847240 © 2020 by University...

...Robert Stilling Len Gutkin , Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2020 by University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847253 © 2020 by University...

...Jonathan P. Lamb [email protected] Matthew Hunter , The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 To sum up, then: Hunter reverses...

... in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la terre.” The Conradian 14 . 1 ( Dec. 1989 ): 19 - 46 . Hutchinson H. N. Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days: A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life . 1892 . Rev. Ed...