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... Recurrent Characters in the Romantic Fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan and Sapper . London : Barrie and Jenkins , rev. edn. 1974 . Print . GENRE AS HISTORY: GENRE-POACHING IN AGAINST THE DAY BRIAN MCHALE, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 1. "A screaming comes across the sky...

...Fred Botting Unrealism addresses the way unrealistic genres of writing like science fiction, horror, romance, and fantasy can display a capacity to reflect on and interrogate generic conventions. Unrealism describes a process that unsettles the literary hierarchies in which genre fiction...

... holds a unique capacity to undermine the still-powerful cultural myth of the self-sustaining, solitary traveler. The effort to re-create a journey in turn refocuses our attention on travel writing's status as a border genre between fiction and nonfiction. Tracing the physical and textual pathways...

...Jacqueline O'Dell Abstract Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her , about a letter writer's romance with his operating system, is often read as a posthuman meditation on universal concerns about intimacy. Drawing from Sylvia Wynter's work on genres of the human, this article argues that the protagonist...

...Janet Neary [email protected] Kelly Ross , Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature , New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 Kelly Ross's comprehensive and dynamic account...

...Dunja Dušanić Abstract This article examines the relationship between poetry and testimony in order to outline a viable framework for interpreting testimonial poetry (or “poetry of witness,” in Carolyn Forché’s terms) as a literary genre in its own right. Neglected in favor of other, mimetically...

...Nir Evron Abstract Owen Wister's 1902 The Virginian is often described as the first proper Western, yet in stark contrast to the popular genre it helped establish, Wister's novel is continuously preoccupied with the question of animal cruelty. To explain the novel's solicitous concern with animal...

...Timothy S. Murphy Editor's note: By the time this issue reaches readers, we will have the Genre web page up and running. Although the journal itself will not be available online, readers will find current and forthcoming contents lists, submission guidelines, production acknowledgements...

...Tanya Caldwell © COPYRIGHT 1999 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 1999 SURE INSTINCT: INCEST, POLITICS, AND GENRE IN DRYDEN AND DEFOE TANYA CALDWELL, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY At the heart of his anti-epic Fables, immediately before the mock-heroic "First Book of Homer's Ilias...

... of Literature 8 . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1984 . —. Rabelais and His World . Trans. Iswolsky Helene . 1968 . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1984 . Beebee Thomas O. The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability . University Park : Pennsylvania State UP...

.... Irons Glenwood . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1995 : 3 - 11 . Rycroft Charles . “The Analysis of a Detective Story.” In his Imagination and Reality . London : Hogarth Press , 1968 : 114 - 28 . Roth Marty . Foul & Fair Play: Reading Genre in Classic...

... Practices .'' Women, Autobiography, Theory . Madison, WI : U. of Wisconsin P. , 1998 . 3 - 56 . Spengemann William . The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a Literary Genre . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1980 . Stanton Domna , Ed. Introduction to The Female...

...Margaret Russett © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 THREE FACES OF RUTH RENDELL: FEMINISM, POPULAR FICTION, AND THE QUESTION OF GENRE MARGARET RUSSETT, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA It is commonplace in positive reviews of bestsellers to say that a book...

...John B. Vickery COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Barker George . Collected Poems . Ed. Fraser R. . London : Faber & Faber , 1987 . Bloomfield Morton W. `` The Elegy and the Elegiac Mode ,'' in Renaissance Genres: Essays...

... , 2002 . ---. “ The True Hollywood Left .” 2007 . Lacan.com . May 2008 . < http://www.lacan.com/zizhollywood.htm > . CONSPIRACY, THEORY, GENRE: COLLECTING, THE PARALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION, AND LYRICAL TRUTH IN JOHN SAYLES'S SILVER CITY WESLEY BEAL, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA...

... . The article risks the claim that in Mailer's conflicted attempts to write the collective form we can not only locate stark evidence of the retreat of class-based models in the American political imaginary but also map the ways in which the novel genre adapts to political change. The paper also attends...

...Katie Owens-Murphy Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies as a theory and methodology has never quite recovered from the opposition of Jacques Derrida, whose well-known essay “The Law of Genre” (1980) accused literary...

... .” Women’s History Review 9 ( 2000 ): 231 - 55 . West W. J. The Quest for Graham Greene . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 1997 . "THE WORLD HAS BEEN REMADE": GENDER, GENRE, AND THE BLITZ IN GRAHAM GREENE'S THE MINISTRY OF FEAR KRISTINE MILLER, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY...

...Lee Clark Mitchell Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men (2005), like Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's film adaptation (2007), poses two genres against one another, drawing on film noir techniques to defy what their Western materials seem to solicit. Fleeting gestures at wide-open landscape...

...: A POPULAR GENRE IN THE (TRANS)FORMATION OF A CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ZHOU XIAOJING, UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC "America's Chinatown has a history of nearly one hundred years . Soaked with blood, tears, and sweat, the outer surface of this place may seem barren...