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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 239–265.
Published: 01 July 2017
... allegory in Alain Badiou's own mobilization of Saint Paul as the engineer and emissary of a certain kind of antiphilosophical intervention. This parallel thereby foregrounds the liminality of the transnational African emigrant and his or her struggles with identity, citizenship, economics, and esteem...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 21–53.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Stephanie A. Smith Both Walt Whitman and Herman Melville wrote poetry about the Civil War, and while Whitman's is better known, Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) remains an interesting experiment in improvisation, a kind of “blues” lament for a loss that could...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 171–197.
Published: 01 July 2014
... by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri by emphasizing the common as a process of reeducation, or a biopolitical struggle to produce new kinds of political subjects. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 July 2016
... or restoration of agency, no redemptive insight, no transcendence of any kind. Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is author of Connected; or, What It Means to Live in the Network Society (2003), No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism (2015...
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Genre (2018) 51 (2): 105–131.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., it suggests, names an interpretational hesitation between generic frames like comedy and tragedy. In his bawdy double entendres, James provides a kind of resting place from what Susan Sontag has called the “excruciating” tonal textures of his major phase. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oklahoma 2018...
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Genre (2018) 51 (3): 267–293.
Published: 01 December 2018
...,” offering stereotypes of Asians as “silent, reticent, passive, yet also exotic, mysterious, objects of aesthetic contemplation.” But is Yu’s project not at the same time reinscribing a kind of Chinese inscrutability, presenting China as perennially unknowable in its critique of so many efforts to make...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 111–134.
Published: 01 July 2020
... practice of counting the years to be another kind of “writing by numbers.” “X was now Y years of age” is a favorite locution, and all Trollope’s novels measure the gap between adjacent now s by watching characters grow older. Trollope’s now is thus crucially a sign of age, dependent upon its adjacent...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 67–87.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of Jacob ). Both novels investigate the challenges inherent in the project of providing an image of the world, and alongside various interventions on the level of content, each examines the kind of world‐image that different approaches to narrative voice can produce. In Flights , the narrator's striving...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 317–340.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., and a smaller one on which the hope for this transformation is nourished in daily, increasingly erotic labor. What their doubled temporality of promised but deferred pleasure makes possible—when formalized in periodical writing as a comforting, albeit ambivalent, state of suspension—is a kind of utopianism...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
... “The Damned Thing” ( 1893 ), two short stories that feature the same kind of supernatural phenomenon (a material ghost), the essay argues that apophasis can be used as a key to understand not only the rhetorical fabric of the fantastic genre but also its tropes and themes and its larger epistemological...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Brian Attebery Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy‐Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re‐visioning. Such re‐visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as light‐hearted and conservative. Little attention has been given to the fact that WarGames is a convergent narrative working across multiple media. In a study of David Bischoff's eponymous tie‐in novel, this article reveals a composite genre vehicle focused on the new kind of kid rather than the new...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to provoke that dialogue. Like all rhetoricians or deconstructors, one of my anxieties is that there could be a kind of sociological or explicitly Marxist criticism which would bypass the implicit challenges to it that deconstruction has posed, and to think of those problems as in some way solved, perhaps...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 211–230.
Published: 01 September 2005
... in the time since the terrorist attacks. The voices of
even the most considerable of foreign intellects were hardly alone in being ren-
dered inaudible by the solipsistic noise that immediately took over the American
public sphere after 9/11. All kinds of voices and words, from within America...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 December 2013
...), Laurence Bergreen’s Marco
Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (2007), and even Rolf Potts’s Marco Polo Didn’t Go
There (2008), a kind of antifootsteps collection tracing a career that did not really
begin, Potts claims, until he gave up on an assignment to follow the explorer’s
route through northern China...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Scordilis . Hanover : UP of New England , 1985 . 265 - 280 . Colie Rosalie . The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance . Ed. Lewalski Barbara K. . Berkeley : U of California P , 1973 . Currie George . “The Film Theory that Never Was: A Nervous Manifesto...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 39–56.
Published: 01 September 2006
... the generally uninterrogated
literary concept of setting is brought into collision with the kind of spatial theory
that radically destabilizes the taken-for-granted definitions of space and place
upon which that concept is founded.
Ultimately, my argument in this paper is that Munroe's novel...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 69–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
... a kind of ambassadorship that would be untenable in a larger sample, let alone anything resembling a global one. And at the end of the day, returning to Guillory, there must be some standard of selection for what we read and teach. Rejecting a race- and gender-coded standard of canonical “greatness...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 383–408.
Published: 01 September 2010
... not entirely
satisfactory. The original Greek word “para” means “next to,” and “allelon”
means “each other, mutually.” But after all, the culture “on the other side” of
culture recognized by the state was not simply a parallel line, but rather a kind...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 199–211.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of weird as a counter-tradition, let
alone an embedded critique of the mainstream tradition, including the separa-
tion, our approach to the various fantastics has to be about more than its furni-
ture (spaceships, ghosts, monsters, monsters of variegated kinds) — though again
that’s not irrelevant...
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