... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Ruth Page COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 WORKS CITED Argamon Shlomo Moshe Koppel Jonathan Fine Shimoni Anat Rachel . “ Gender, Genre and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts .” Text 23.3 ( 2003 ): 321 - 346 . Bamberg Michael . “ Narrative...

... COPYRIGHT © 2005 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2005 Errata List to Genre voLXXXVI, numbers 1-2 (spring/summer 2003) The editor and staff of Genre would like to apologize to the contributors in this issue for the uncorrected printing errors that were allowed to remain in the pub...

... . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1986 . Print . Modernism / modernity 11.2 ( April 2004 ). Special section on mass communication . Print . Modernism / modernity 13.2 ( April 2006 ). Special section on cinema . Print . INTRODUCTION: GENRE POACHING IN CONTEMPORARY...

... BODIES: DEFORMING THE MYSTERY GENRE IN MEAN SPIRIT JUSTINE DYMOND, SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE On the opening page of Mean Spirit (1990), we learn that the story takes place in Oklahoma in 1922, and "since it was a scorching hot summer, a good number of Indians moved their beds outdoors...

... ), 107 - 128 . Print . Slocombe Will . “‘ This Is Not for You’: Nihilism and the House That Jacques Built .” Modern Fiction Studies 51.1 ( spring 2005 ): 88 - 109 . Print . RESCUING INTERPRETATION WITH MARK DANIELEWSKI: THE GENRE OF SCHOLARSHIP IN HOUSE OF LEAVES...

... 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...