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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... where the materiality of the book reasserts itself, the autonomy of the structure of the experience of reading is further underscored by the irony of the novel's title. Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 immersion horror genre gender art-horror maximalist novel...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
... that mobilizes maximalist and encyclopedic narrative tendencies to confront the challenge of telling the knotty, bifurcating, ongoing story of the US-Mexico border crisis. Scholarship has suggested that one of the strengths of encyclopedic fiction, one branch of the big, ambitious novel (BAN...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Not all novels are “big” and “ambitious,” though. James Wood's ( 2000 ) review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth assigns the two adjectives and the label hysterical realism to only a number of contemporary fictions, which literature scholars would qualify as “encyclopedic” (Kyllönen 2018 ), “maximalist...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the generic designations “encyclopedic,” “maximalist,” or the “big, ambitious novel” to describe works not just large in scale but also composing worlds from excessive content (like data or information) that is possibly knowable (as in a totality) by a knowing figure, for example, a writer or narrator...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
... be a potentially empowering, if ambivalent, mode of inquiry for postcolonial and global authors in the twenty-first century. Copyright © 2020 University of Oklahoma 2020 encyclopedic narrative Zia Haider Rahman treatment of metaphor postcolonialism maximalist novel Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., and the polarizing Trump presidency. Though this remarkable monologue points in disparate directions, its centrifugal digressions are reined in by centripetal themes and leitmotifs, in line with Stefano Ercolino's ( 2014 ) account of the dual tendencies at work in maximalist literature. In terms of theme, the novel...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that are quite literally too big to read—from experimental novels to television, film, and video games—signals that the megatext is an emergent form native to the era of neoliberalism. But what happens to other long forms, such as the twentieth‐century long poem, when written in an era of megatextuality? Rachel...
