...Glenn Colquhoun The practice of medicine and the practice of writing poetry are often considered to require competing skills. The New Zealand doctor-poet Glenn Colquhoun looks at the similarities between the two activities and argues that narrative and metaphor play important roles in the creative...

...Cheryl Mattingly There has been far more attention to narrative than to metaphor among scholars looking at clinical care. In this article, I consider the relationship between metaphor and narrative in a contested confrontation between family members and clinicians over a do-not-resuscitate decision...

...Kathryn Hume The Sandman , by Neil Gaiman and many illustrators, is a two-thousand-page frame tale. Critics have focused on the enclosed tales and argue or assume that Gaiman's concern is the nature of narrative. If we look at the frame, the actions of Morpheus/Dream, we find instead a mythic...

... moment even to a reader to whom the political outcome is known. Thus Bowen's changes to narrative discourse produce a tension between the focalized present and the project of looking back at history, conveying an ambivalent mixture of lamentation, critique, and tentative responsibility that characterizes...

... that camp is an inadequate framework with which to look at Puig's movie fandom precisely because camp usually brackets the very affection for film that is inherent in fandom. It argues instead for understanding Puig as a queer film fan. During almost daily childhood trips to the movies, he was at once...

... the role of Asian merchants. While private traders were clearly embedded in epistolary networks that connected them to an emerging global economy, looking at the western Indian Ocean reveals the extent to which they also relied on more localized commercial associations mediated through the exchange...

... subject matter is framed by mundane matters and the daily lives of the exceptional artists, placing genius authors in the most generic situations. In other cases, as with work by Robert McAlmon and Malcolm Cowley, the celebrity figures with whom the memoir writers come into contact are made to look...

...James Arnett; Angela Wright This essay takes a close look at the way Alain Mabanckou positions himself vis-à-vis discipline and market by way of his negotiations of a range of terms—French, francophone, postcolonial, and world literature—and the ways that such disciplinarity and appeal might...

... on psychological interiority as the defining criterion for humanlike mimesis. It proposes that we instead look to an alternative theory of seeming human, one based on repetition and routine. Cybernetics, an early form of artificial intelligence, provides a theory of developmental time through the feedback loop...

... Chinese culture known? Understanding translation through Judith Butler’s “performativity,” the article looks critically both at Yu’s poems and the texts he parodies, in particular those by Gary Snyder and Ezra Pound, in the context of works by John Ashbery, the Language poets, Jonathan Stalling, and Eliot...

... of the genre as a backward-looking nostalgic form while also opening anew the question of regionalism’s complicated appeal for its contemporary readers. While beginning and ending with Sarah Orne Jewett’s representative remnant figure, Captain Littlepage, the essay also surveys several lesser-known examples...

... action. Satire is a way of using creative expression to make someone or something look bad. Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847162 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma What Satire Does: Lessons from the English Renaissance for the Great Age of American Satire eric d. vivier We...

... regarding the nature of these reworkings. Some see them as a continuation of the original European models established by Goethe, Dickens, and other European writers. Others find such associations Eurocentric and call for more local standards of evaluation. This article examines this debate by looking...

... each in beveled granite; rusted steel bars cross their hollow openings. Bars, instead of glass, make for an abandoned look, like the ornate bunga- lows of a Victorian public works site, a place above the dam where they keep a system of cobwebbed valves out of the rain. A crown...

... - 204 . —. “On Photography.” A Susan Sontag Reader . New York : Vintage , 1983 . 347 - 67 . Strathausen Carsten . The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900 . Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P , 2003 . Struth Thomas . Museum Photographs . Munich : Schirmer...

... faculty for discovering his prey, and invariably triumphing over his natural enemies. But his most outstanding feature was his insatiable appetite” (Verrill [1931] 1983, 63). A quick translation exercise: Try to visualize this “magnificent specimen.” Imagine what he looks like. Draw a little picture...

... (distant reading, macroanalysis) in terms of a relationship between narrative and data that has been going on for over a century. Imagine for a moment what a piece of traditional literary criticism looks like — what it physically looks like on the page. Now imagine a piece of data-­ driven...

... consider issues of gender in Richardson’s work, while Elisabeth Bronfen (1999) looks at material, metaphorical, and textual space in her fiction; and Susan Gevirtz (1996) connects Richardson’s writing with the visualism of film. Gevirtz (ibid.: 7) claims that film gave Richardson...

... surroundings. The particularity of the THE UNACCOUNTED IN TESS AND TRISHNA 387 land has been lost, for “everything looked like money — like the last coin issued from the Mint” (44). If everything can be reduced to its exchange value, to coins issued from the mint, then any unique aspect...

... surfaces to the narrative representation of surfaces. In doing so, I will focus on the novel's efforts to "look beyond" its own surfaces and expose the fragile resolution such efforts produce. While the detective plot of the novel seems to function in a conventional way (a man, George Talboys...