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“Kill the Monster!”: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters and the Big, Ambitious (Graphic) Novel
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 graphic novels comics interconnectedness hysteria monsters queer ambitious women Certainly, the characters who inhabit the big, ambitious contemporary novels have a showy liveliness, a theatricality, that almost succeeds in hiding the fact...
FIGURES
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Three Faces of Ruth Rendell: Feminism, Popular Fiction, and the Question of Genre
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 143–165.
Published: 01 March 2002
... between detective fiction and psychoanalysis has been well
discussed" (170). In his introduction to the case-history of Dora, Philip Rieff comments on Freud's
similarities to Sherlock Holmes (Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, ed. Philip
RiefT [New York: Collier Books, 1963], 9...
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Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film
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Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 211–215.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of psychoanalysis and of an experimental psychology that privileged
physiology, the two modes of psychology that emerge partly from Charcot's
studies of hysteria in the 1870s and 1880s (22-24), and it is here, rather than
with the advent of film, that McCabe's story about what shapes modernist poetic...
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Ambivalent Man: The Is-and-Isn't World of Ralph Ellison's “Tell It Like It Is, Baby”
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 205–233.
Published: 01 December 2022
...; and it's this condition, combined with his failure to take revenge on “the man who shows him the repressed wishes of his own childhood realized,” that confirms the character's hysteria [282 – 83].) Thus, in a single final page, Ellison telescopes the larger pattern of rhetorical ambivalence he has...
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Marxism and Deconstruction: Symposium at the Conference on Contemporary Genre Theory and the Yale School, 1 June 1984
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that . . . ,” “This means . . . ,” those are the kinds of formulations he uses. But on the other hand, there is that wonderful kind of locution which goes all the way from the Studies in Hysteria down to a very late paper, a beautiful one for narrative analysis, called “Constructions in Analysis.” In the Studies...
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The Gothic Sublime in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 129–156.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and the Modernization of the Senses.” English Literary History 66 , no. 2 : 461 – 87 . Darvay Daniel . 2009 . “The Politics of Gothic in Conrad's Under Western Eyes.” Modern Fiction Studies 55 , no. 4 : 693 – 715 . Didi-Huberman Georges . 2003 . Invention of Hysteria: Charcot...
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Silencing the Politics of Literature in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 269–298.
Published: 01 June 2012
... . “Automatisme Ambulatoire: Fugue, Hysteria, and Gender at the Turn of the Century.” Modernism/Modernity 3 ( 2 ): 31 – 43 . Heine Elizabeth . 1979 . “The Earlier Voyage Out: Virginia Woolf's First Novel.” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 82 : 294 – 316 . ———. 1990...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... New Republic essay, ‘Human, all too Inhuman,’ James Wood took down Zadie Smith for what he coined White Teeth 's ‘Hysterical Realism.’ Please gather all the women ever in a room and ask them what the word ‘hysterical’ is meant to mean. Except, in Wood's estimation, this hysteria had to do with being...
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Conspiracy, Theory, Genre: Collecting, the Paralysis of Interpretation, and Lyrical Truth in John Sayles's Silver City
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Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of paranoia. It is
true that paralysis also has a history in the psychoanalytic tradition—as a form of hysteria that was
thought to be produced by concealed psychological causes and that was treated by bringing those
suppressed issues to consciousness—but my goal in marking this distinction...
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“The World Has Been Remade”: Gender, Genre, and the Blitz in Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 131–150.
Published: 01 March 2003
... had broken down, said she wanted
to die, not to wait: that was hysteria. Later it was her endurance and her
patience which he had found most unbearable. He was trying to escape his own
pain, not hers, and at the end she had guessed or half-guessed what it was he
was offering...
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From the Shameful Order of Virility: Autobiography After Colonialism
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 461–482.
Published: 01 September 2004
... viewpoint, T. F. C. Bewes is
at best an example of the settler who "understands" the natives—who is prema-
turely alert to the impending crisis, who recoils from the "guilty hysteria" which
spreads among the colonizers, and who condemns the attitude of shameless
exploitation of the African people...
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Lyric Ritual and Narrative Myth in Russian Modernism: The Case of Viacheslav Ivanov
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2003
... worldview, in its purely
Russian hysteria, is capable of smashing even the most beautiful Greek vase
48 So also in art, writes Ivanov, the tragic and epic must work together,
ensuring sublime power and conceptual breadth. In his central 1914 article "On
the Limits of Art" Ivanov claimed...
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Morals, Manners, and the Middlebrow: Lionel Trilling and the Television Adaptation of “Of This Time, of That Place”
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 319–342.
Published: 01 December 2017
...) denounced racial discrimination in the justice system,
and Almanac of Liberty (1954) upheld the principle of free speech in the face of
anti-Communist hysteria. The Defenders and the television programs it helped
inspire continued to address major political issues. However, as Jon Kraszewski
(2010...
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On Returning: “`America'” In The Fifth Element and Kal Ho Naa Ho
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Genre (2005) 38 (4): 389–412.
Published: 01 December 2005
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into a comic tradition within French culture that "duplicated the same move-
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ments, gestures, tics, grimaces, fantasies, hallucinations, and speech anomalies
found in nineteenth-century hysteria" (xvii). This comic tradition...
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Freud's Menagerie
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Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 45–70.
Published: 01 March 2005
... deep past, psychological and evolutionary both.
But the Wolf Man is not alone in his decidedly modern suffering, as we can
see from other case studies such as "The Rat Man," Little Hans and his horse
phobia, or Frau Emmy Von N. from Freud's work with Breuer in "Studies on
Hysteria," whom...
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“Written in Disorder”: John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle and “The Big Strike”
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the anarchists' role in the bombing was never
established, they had been decried in the bourgeois press as depraved cop killers,
and had been tried, condemned and executed in an atmosphere of hysteria and
bias.16 Their mass funeral and burial, however, apotheosized them into some-
thing else entirely...
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In the Slow Rain Crying: Gendered Responses to Loss in Faulkner's The Unvanquished
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 89–120.
Published: 01 March 2002
... is
"the privileging of male melancholia" (5). She cites Juliana Schiesari as arguing
that "male suffering has been culturally 'accredited' as melancholia, and female
suffering correspondingly discredited as hysteria or depression" (6).3 According
to this construction elegy is a way of co-opting...
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Paule Marshall, Urban Crisis, and the Bildungsroman in a Totalitarian Age
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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 201–233.
Published: 01 December 2024
... factories where Silla works (81). Entering Silla's swastika-emblazoned factory, Selina finds herself “drowned in a deluge of noise” emitted by machines whose depiction evokes a common midcentury fear of human diminution through mass administration. She sees a controlled, mechanical hysteria, welling up...
