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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and reality discussed in Michel Foucault's “archaeology of knowledge,” to classical Chinese novels as described by Goethe and Franco Moretti, and to J. S. Bach's polyphonic layout of the Goldberg Variations . Constructing sympathetic networks of music and literature, Do Not Say We Have Nothing facilitates...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 April 2014
... . Said Edward W. 2006 . On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain . New York : Vintage . Sailer Steve . 2008 . “The Gropes of Roth.” American Conservative , July 28 , 28 . Shipe Matthew . 2009 . “Exit Ghost and the Politics of ‘Late Style.’ ” Philip Roth...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 285–299.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., "Am I Blue Richard Albert wonders about Baldwin's choice of a song so "far- removed from the black experience" (183). He is referring to the conditions of the song's production, which we will examine in a moment. But because this is music within literature, a song within a story, we can...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and the `Nonsense' of Bebop .'' American Literature 72 ( 2000 ): 357 - 85 . Lutz Tom . `` Claude McKay: Music, Sexuality, and Literary Cosmopolitanism .'' Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison . Ed. Simawe Saadi A. . New York...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., the titles of the Blue Note records point to the larger issue of knowing whether music can refer and, like language, refer to something other than itself. Hayden White has posed the problem with special accuracy at the conclusion of a colloquium about the relations between music and literature: "Can...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2009
... ,” in The Sign in Music and Literature , ed. Steiner Wendy . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1981 , pp. 52 - 66 . Casti John , Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World through the Science of Surprise , New York : HarperPerennial , 1995 . Conrad Joseph , Heart...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 269–298.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the twentieth century. There are, in other words, multiple modernities. SILENCING POLITICS OF LITERATURE 281 early aesthetic definition of tragedy advanced in The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche ([1871] 1993), whom Rachel reads...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 331–357.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . Said Edward . 2007 . On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain . New York : Vintage . Smith Barbara Herrnstein . 1978 . On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Stevens Wallace . 1997...
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Genre (2011) 44 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Angela Frattarola This article interrogates the auditory narrative of Dorothy Richardson's multivolume work, Pilgrimage . By drawing on her film column in Close Up , where she champions the silent film with musical accompaniment over the talkie, Frattarola explicates the significance...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 347–349.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of the music or the literature inspired by it. The novel's title, of course, refers to one of the most basic harmonic progressions in blues and jazz, and also provides the fundamental structure for Neate's novel, which is split into two "twelve bar blues" (one labeled "Book One: Polyphony" and the other...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 173–199.
Published: 01 June 2004
... questions of how the process of "literalization" can be equated with musical improvisation and performance. In this context, Richard Poirier's assessment of the "performing self' in literature is invaluable. Poirier defines "performance" as the opportunity for human beings to "release . . . energy...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 479–493.
Published: 01 September 2002
... . Miles: The Autobiography . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1989 . Franklin H. Bruce . The Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literature from the American Prison . New York : Oxford UP , 1978 . Gebhardt Nicholas . Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology . Chicago...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 449–451.
Published: 01 December 2013
...T. Austin Graham Schleifer Ronald , Modernism and Popular Music , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Book Reviews lheisa dustin, college of the north atlantic Annette Debo and Lara Vetter, eds., Approaches to Teaching...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 443–448.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the discursive contexts of this familiar argument are new. The “destructive binaries” that H.D. “transcends” now include war literature’s binaries (Baccolini), her allusiveness and wordplay are now “the play of the signifier” (Elizabeth Hirsh), and her mythological syn- cretism is now transnational...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 344–346.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of the music or the literature inspired by it. The novel's title, of course, refers to one of the most basic harmonic progressions in blues and jazz, and also provides the fundamental structure for Neate's novel, which is split into two "twelve bar blues" (one labeled "Book One: Polyphony" and the other...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 341–343.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of the music or the literature inspired by it. The novel's title, of course, refers to one of the most basic harmonic progressions in blues and jazz, and also provides the fundamental structure for Neate's novel, which is split into two "twelve bar blues" (one labeled "Book One: Polyphony" and the other...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 350–352.
Published: 01 June 2004
... history of Waller's music. Similarly, in his often wonderful chapter on Armstrong, Appel can't refrain from tossing in eye-rolling parallels to, say, Derain (122). This off-hand approach masks a serious message: that Armstrong used the vernacular to create multilayered, intertextual works...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 179–204.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles. New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. Jameson, Fredric. "Poliltics of Theory: Ideological Postions in the Postmod- ernism Debate." Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986. Vol. 2 Syntax of His- tory. History and Theory of Literature, vol. 49...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 47–64.
Published: 01 March 2004
... . London & Boston : Faber & Faber , 1991 . Casmier Stephen J. Matthews Donald H. . `` Why Scatting Is Like Speaking in Tongues: Post-Modern Reflections on Jazz, Pentecostalism and `Aficosmysticism .''' Literature and Theology 13.2 ( 1999 ): 166 - 76 . Cerillo...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 March 2007
... a Semiology of Music . Trans. Abbate Carolyn . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1990 . O'Driscoll Michael J. “ Silent Texts and Empty Words: Structure and Intention in the Writings of John Cage .” Contemporary Literature 38 ( 1997 ): 616 - 639 . Poole Steven . “ A Kind of Hush...