...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Timothy S. Murphy GENRE EDITORIAL STATEMENT While maintaining a longstanding interest in the conventions and discursive histories of generic forms, we at Genre intend to emphasize more fully the intri- cate relations between genre and its social, institutional, cultural and political...

...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...

...Julie Rak ARE MEMOIRS AUTOBIOGRAPHY? A CONSIDERATION OF GENRE AND PUBLIC IDENTITY JULIE RAK, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA In the introduction to his 2001 collection called The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs, George Fetherling says two things about memoir that reveal its difficult...

...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...

... , 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...

... reveal a peripatetic ethics that serves as a formal alternative to both the values of cynical self-interest and of a generic tradition of beatus ille poetic images associated with narratives of ethical retirement. The two novels produce a drama in which genres vie with genres; modes of storytelling...

... of the undocumented youth movement in the United States. More specifically, this article identifies how the national comprehensive immigration reform movement created a political genre known as the Dreamer narrative that undocumented youth were trained to produce. By examining the ways Vargas performs these genre...

...David Sergeant This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction of the near future, New York 2140 (2017) and how its treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. By imbricating present and future, New York 2140 resembles not so much science fiction, the genre commonly associated...

... of The Twilight Zone (as the show’s cultural context was and is perfect for the task) reveals afresh that mood (involving an author’s attitude toward content) is necessarily more important than genre (involving content itself) when narrative content approaches the unknowable. What perhaps surprises...

...Suk Koo Rhee This article argues that Suki Kim’s The Interpreter (2003) is influenced by and, at the same time, critically revises early American hard-boiled crime fiction, the genre with which it is least likely to be associated. Although dead bodies do not pile up in the novel, the urban world...

..., artificial or as a result of a classification which was made for convenience. On the other hand, it seems to me still something to be thought and talked about. There may be certain genres that do have a kind of life which is more than simply historical convenience. The only example that I can think of where...

... .” 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...

... 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...