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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 383–404.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the ethical intent behind such reclamation efforts is commendable, these efforts enact their own version of a capitalist improvement ideology—the imperative to turn all things, even “waste,” to profit or good account. This essay explores the tension between the desire to account for experiences that fall...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 405–423.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to policy. Metaphor is shown to reflect and generate narratives related to what health is, what affects health, and what can be done to improve health. Mechanical, ecological, and other metaphors are described. The valuable metaphor of journey is highlighted. Metaphor and narrative are powerful constructs...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 April 2016
... on Singapore's socioeconomic restructuring after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the article argues that attention to genre provides a framework through which to understand how the internalizing of neoliberal values becomes a matter of personal fulfillment and self-improvement. Tan's novel dramatizes neoliberal...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the
same basic plot, the second novel does not capitulate to the mundane but rather
improves it, lifts it to new achievements by adapting the plot to new ends.
This essay not only examines the representation of characters’ habits but
also argues that these novels instantiate what became...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 175–202.
Published: 01 June 2006
... destabilized by
the guidebooks' ambivalent representation of the East End of London, and its
working-class inhabitants. On the one hand, the guidebooks seek to represent
how the working classes have been provided with an "improving" accultura-
tion. On the other hand, these texts express the fears...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 95–123.
Published: 01 March 2008
... and a modern world—derails the teleological
structure implicit in both the stylistic model and the narrative model that has
traditionally guided its reading. The style does not "develop" or "improve" in
a progressive fashion, nor do the narrative events augur an improvement in the
condition...
Journal Article
Genre (2006) 39 (4): 141–144.
Published: 01 December 2006
... mystique would appear to be
an improvement in American perceptions of Chinese culture. However, Leong
argues that the China mystique was ultimately a new form of orientalism, one
that was based on specific political developments between these two countries.
Grounding her work in Said's classic...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (3): 337–341.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of intention, as though progressive actors were trying too hard, rather than not hard enough, to make improvements to our social and political conditions—a suggestion I would find a bit hard to swallow. Along these lines, Canuel offers the following striking response to critiques of Wordsworth's quietism: We...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 117–121.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., we Emilians too had to make contact with those
Communist Party workers who dissented from the party line.
The translator would like to thank Maurizio Vito for his very helpful suggestions for refine-
ments that have improved this translation a great deal.
Genre, Vol. 46, No. 2 Summer...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 49–54.
Published: 01 April 2022
...-friendly vision of mere change as a good in itself (3). Surely Clune wants growth or improvement , not just change. What would such growth look like? Clune's close readings, tenacious as they are, won't show us. Not that they aren't pertinent: each of the three analyses makes good on Clune's promise...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 April 2013
...
and literary scholars may all find matters for improvement in a book that ventures
to bridge so many divides and dismantle so many walls. But adding details to
Pinkus’s analyses will not add to the overall impressive achievement of her enter-
prise. Some oversights, notably the date of Sluizer’s film...
Journal Article
Genre (2013) 46 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 April 2013
...
and literary scholars may all find matters for improvement in a book that ventures
to bridge so many divides and dismantle so many walls. But adding details to
Pinkus’s analyses will not add to the overall impressive achievement of her enter-
prise. Some oversights, notably the date of Sluizer’s film...
Journal Article
Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 191–196.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of
how such shifts relate to issues of race or gender. For example, while Terranova
provides a very compelling discussion of the "soft control" exerted on emergent
systems such as cellular automata, the discussion could have been improved with
further examples (beyond that of Razorfish, noted above...
Journal Article
Genre (2020) 53 (2): 183–188.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Fran- cis Bacon onward, Royal Society experimentalists were not against figurative language, but against excessive or misplaced uses of it, Chico s recognition of metaphor as a form of observed particular has far- reaching implications for how literary historians might help improve understandings...
Journal Article
Genre (2024) 57 (2): 183–188.
Published: 01 July 2024
... exactly this) metaphor is itself a metaphor. In the introduction, Prakas proposes that these five writers (with the tricky exception of Milton) saw poetry as a complement to or perhaps an improvement on the forms of church worship. Although Prakas acknowledges that her writers (again excepting Milton...
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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the living conditions of New York's tenement wards (six people to a room “with hens scratching about on the bed”), notes that “the pestiferous stench and filth” of that part of the city “exceed description” (New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 1853 : 12). By the turn...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 263–276.
Published: 01 September 2011
... I. Tulsky James A. . 2010 . “Can Metaphors and Analogies Improve Communication with Seriously Ill Patients?” Journal of Palliative Medicine 13 : 255 – 60 . Charon Rita . 2001 . “Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust.” Journal...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 155–160.
Published: 01 July 2013
... for refine-
ments that have improved this translation a great deal.
1. Judgments 199 and 200 of the Constitutional Court are available on the court’s website,
www.cortecostituzionale.it.
Genre, Vol. 46, No. 2 Summer 2013
DOI 10.1215/00166928-2087989 © 2013 by University of Oklahoma
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 337–352.
Published: 01 September 2010
... improved the translation significantly. WORKS CITED Marx Karl . 1973 . Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft) ( New York : Penguin ), trans. Nicolaus Martin . ---. 1976 . Capital Volume One ( New York : Vintage ), trans. Fowkes Ben...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 419–442.
Published: 01 December 2013
... longtime friends in a moment
of crisis.
Ultimately, Ben improves, though his health remains a point for discussion
throughout the remaining seasons. The emotionality associated with his poor
health does not become realized through any additional sicknesses; Ben remains
well, if constantly...
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