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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Melissa C. Macero Is immersion merely a subjective response to a work, or can it be an objective formal feature of the work itself? This article examines the unique situation of horror as a genre that demands a substantial level of immersion in order to be successful and will begin to answer...
FIGURES
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 December 2013
... travel writing drawn from postcolonial contexts: Caroline Alexander's One Dry Season (1990), Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild (1996), and Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia (1977). Highly intertextual and characterized by deep immersion in the discursive and personal space of the subject, footsteps travel writing...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
... readerly immersion, yet its fictional storyworld may not feel universally plausible. Sharing its writer's experience of teaching Thien in Hong Kong, the article suggests that a critique of the novel's Western, nearly Orientalist standpoint with respect to sensitive issues of recent Chinese history does...
Journal Article
Genre (2022) 55 (1): 79–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Shaftesbury to the Critique of the Power of Judgment , Zitin immerses us in one example in particular of empiricist aesthetics: William Hogarth's 1753 treatise The Analysis of Beauty . On Zitin's reading, Hogarth's Analysis advances a theory of beauty based in a perceptual practice necessary to art making...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 253–258.
Published: 01 December 2020
... as an immersive experience. The poets of the Renaissance, she suggests, understood well what gets lost when we distance ourselves from the made things that surround us. The book s exemplary second chapter ushers in the first of its extended close readings, on Petrarch s repeated engagements with the ruins of Rome...
Journal Article
Genre (2015) 48 (3): 341–381.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that she emerges from her occasional tendency to withdraw and
turn inward. Immersion in the flux of ordinary life through attending to private
and more public moments energizes her, enchants her, and leads her out of herself
to empathize with others around her.
6. Reid (1996, 270) cites...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 December 2014
... GENRE
place. The end of plot is death unless it is the inverse of plot, which is life (or
Liv[e This is mirrored by Liv’s concerns that pregnancy and motherhood mean
a kind of self-immersion, so that the self “drowns” while creating life. For Liv,
the question becomes which “plot” will prevail...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
...,” presents a reading of Against
the Day in relation to the panorama, a “dominant mass media” in the nineteenth
century that immersed audiences in a “continuous, 360-degree horizon.” This
immersive method, as St. Clair explains, worked to render the medium transpar-
ent, promoting a visual escapism...
Journal Article
Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that he said, “Be quiet, be easy. There now, there. Hold fast. So, there. We can be easy.” And he was easy, he was still, he held fast, rock in rock and earth in earth in the fiery dark of the mountain. (Le Guin 2001a : 161) This immersion in earth is something more than a mere magical...
Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of genres toward a critique of retirement, participate in a tendency
across the long century for British writers to investigate questions of separation,
exile, retirement, and immersion in “the World.”
7. While my use of these words might have otherwise been invited by phenomenological utility...
Journal Article
Genre (2024) 57 (1): 95–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
... it is to be immersed in the densities of his own arguments with what he saw as the “dubious” deployments of history as “justification, explanation, rectification, or expiation” (32). By the time he had completed Homage to Clio , he had endorsed the necessary “estrangement between poet and historian” as a condition...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 283–287.
Published: 01 September 2010
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from humans is a deadly wound to the still silence, while the note from heaven
immersed with it in an agreeable chorus. The connection between the sound of
wind...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (3): 321–326.
Published: 01 December 2023
... British comedy, an SS officer played by David Mitchell notices the skull on his uniform cap and asks his comrade in alarm, “Are we the baddies ?” Elizabeth Anker's On Paradox stages the fallout of a similar moment across its three hundred pages. Trained and deeply immersed in the procedures of what...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2009
....
Timely Western science confronts an equivalent polar opposite in timeless
Eastern fatalism in Thalaba. Both Western and Eastern contexts deserve atten-
tion as they function together within the poem's vision of culture that contains
and defines the human subject. For all its immersion in a remote...
Journal Article
Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 131–150.
Published: 01 March 2003
... "build a bridge to the world of Fleming" (Stafford 157), who, like Freder-
ick Forsyth and Ken Follett, continued the trend of focusing popular spy fiction
upon the male spy hero immersed in political intrigue. According to Graham
Dawson, postwar spies like Fleming's James Bond represented a "new...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (3-4): 33–58.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... Since installations must
maintain a steady throughput, for fear of creating a bottleneck in the exhibit,
they cannot afford to let the visitor become immersed in reading. Many instal-
lation artists pursue the dream of a total language in which sound, shape, color,
animation, spoken voice...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (3): 285–307.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of the regime
(we do not know), this early encounter with fascism was realized through simple
quotidian events rather than large-scale ideological narratives. Immersed in the
media and cultural pressures of her time, focused on her development as an indi-
vidual and a woman, Lore’s experience as she...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (1): 15–31.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., however compelling and enlightening his arguments about the canon's social effects may be, if we wish to deal with the situation that Guillory was one of the first to recognize—the decline of English—we need to begin from somewhere else. We need once again to immerse ourselves positively in texts...
Journal Article
Genre (2006) 39 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... However, it is striking, and on the surface, quite inexplicable, that
often during moments of such crises, the narrative sensibility, which belongs
to Frieda throughout, demonstrates a sensual and psychological immersion
in objects or situations that clearly emerge as banal and marginal in the given...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 199–205.
Published: 01 March 2010
... intellectuals who,
like Hardt and Negri, eschew the figures of both a vanguard intelligentsia lead-
ing the multitude from out in front and a liberal academic detachment from
social movements, critiquing them from the sidelines, and who instead immerse
themselves in the multitude...
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