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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 57–86.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and foster a community of understanding. Marianne Moore and the Old Masters BONNIE COSTELLO, BOSTON UNIVERSITY When Marianne Moore bought pictures, “or what is closer to the truth, / when I look at that of which I may regard myself as the imaginary possessor,” she cer- tainly did not consult her...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lee Clark Mitchell Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men (2005), like Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's film adaptation (2007), poses two genres against one another, drawing on film noir techniques to defy what their Western materials seem to solicit. Fleeting gestures at wide-open landscape...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 117–134.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy The introduction to this special issue proposes a three-stage periodization for the development of weird fiction, the unstable hybrid of horror, science fiction, and fantasy most often associated with H. P. Lovecraft: Old Weird (1880–1940), which is centered...
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Genre (2007) 40 (3-4): 101–128.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Journal of Jewish Studies 11: 2 (Winter 1992; publ. Mar. 1993), Special Issue, “Literary Approaches to the Bible ,” ed. Goldman Stanley , 127 - 67 . A TALE OF TWO TAMARS: INTERNECINE AND INTER-ETHNIC VIOLATION, GENETIC AND GENEALOGICAL ANXIETY, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVE JAMES...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 409–457.
Published: 01 September 2010
... , December 14 , [ 2004 ]. Zhurzhenko Tatiana . “The Geopolitics of Memory,” in Eurozine < http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-05-10-zhurzhenko-en.html >. New lives of old forMs: on returns and repetItIons In russIa 1...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 231–253.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Benjamin Noys The Old Weird, weird fiction written between 1890 and 1940, was often reactionary and, in the figure of H. P. Lovecraft, racist. Contemporary New Weird writing is characterized by a contrasting politics that stresses the weird as the destabilization of normative conceptions...
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Genre (2011) 44 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Bimbisar Irom The article explores the novel form's engagement in narrating the crucial shift from the Old Left to the New Left in the United States by analyzing Norman Mailer's claims to have written a collective novel, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 61–82.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jesse Schotter COPYRIGHT © 2009 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2009 WORKS CITED Bigsby C.W.E. “ The Paradox of Revolution: Robert Lowell’s The Old Glory .” Recherches Anglaises et Americaines 5 ( 1972 ): 63 - 79 . Bloom Harold . The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 57–79.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in modern America. The story opens with an introduction to "the writer," an unnamed old man who lives alone and who appears to be in failing health. One evening he asks a local carpenter to raise the level of his bed, and in their conversation the old writer encourages the carpenter to share...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... This notion of a transcendent Weltliteratur (world literature) is often associated with Johann Wolf- gang von Goethe, but perhaps its most concise formulation is in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’s ([1848] 1962, 38) “Communist Manifesto” of 1848: “In place of the old local and national seclusion...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 December 2014
... vanity is certainly there too). Rather, youthfulness means escaping a constricted life followed by an early death. Ruby’s mother was old before her time because of her never-­ending pregnancies, which shortened and shriveled her life and turned her into “a puckered-­up old yellow apple...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 521–535.
Published: 01 September 2002
... off the mesh like melted wax, at odds with the gothic cupola and the fine old brick of the wall. I dreamed of walking deep in the woods. Billy and me in Vermont again. We were partners in the weed business and he had a spread up there, before we got busted and lost it all, before we ever...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 57–82.
Published: 01 September 2006
... .'' The Wave . December 23 , 1899 . —-. `` A Critical View of the Salon Pictures .'' Camera Craft . February 1901 . —-. `` New Year's in Chinatown .'' The Wave . February 25 , 1899 . —-. Old Chinatown: a Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe, with Text by Irwin Will . London...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
... soaked with the odors of salted fish dark years old This could be Chinatown anywhere. The absence of capitalization and punc- tuation contributes to a generic sense of place — any crowded urban ghetto where Chinese immigrants have made a life...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 309–334.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Katherine Anne . 1927 . “He.” New Masses , October , 13 – 15 . ———. 1958a . “The Old Order.” In The Old Order: Stories of the South , 8 – 28 . New York : Harcourt Brace . ———. 1958b . The Old Order: Stories of the South . New York : Harcourt Brace . ———. 1972 . He . Cambridge...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 101–124.
Published: 01 March 2001
... that is the opposite of his sin of pride, humility. All Jed's former comrades have recreated themselves, but none has an answer that can satisfy him. "Whatever I had come in search of, I had, clearly, not found. [. . .] I had only the old wisdom we all struggle so hard to get and always find we already had...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 83–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... her time sucking up to a boring old fart like J.-P (Shaking 525). ANGELA CARTER'S NARRATIVE CHIASMUS 85 sion of New Eve. Carter allegorizes psychoanalytic stage theory as a temporal progression both schematically and structurally in Doctor Hoffman, which func- tions as a kind...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 111–134.
Published: 01 July 2020
... especially a concern for old age that she analyzes in relation to legislative imperatives attempting to rationalize treatment of the elderly in England during the last third of the century. Kay Heath (2009) has located in Trollope s writing 112 GEN RE Figure 1. Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography, 2nd ed...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 315–334.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 319 I told her that they worked by magic. She asked me why I didn’t say that in the first place. This poem is about a three- year- old girl with leukemia. At the time I wrote it she was a patient in the pediatric ward I was working in and was battling through...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., another of Dunnet Landing s old stock, when he decides to pay a cordial visit to the narrator, who has retreated to the village s vacant schoolhouse to write. After some initial pleasantries, the conversation turns to the old days of the region s seafaring past: It was a dog s life, said the poor...