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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 421–447.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of sensory input, and modifies it, using ideas that belong to comic theory and to seventeenth-century philosophies of the passions. His literary criticism thus reveals the way the self depicted in Jonsonian comedy, driven historically by the humors, gives way to a new, imitative model of the self driven more...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 347–351.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Heather Cass White Cope Karin , Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live With Gertrude Stein . ELS Editions , 2005 . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Leitch Thomas . Crime Films . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge UP , 2002...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 83–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... . New York : Penguin , 1994 . ---. The Passion of New Eve . London : Virago , 1982 . ---. Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings . Ed. Uglow Jenny . New York : Penguin , 1998 . ---. The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History . London : Virago , 2000 . Carter Angela...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 303–329.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and passion but devastatingly average in their fates. As representative figures, both Armgart and Dorothea may plausibly be tokens of the general fate of women and the strictured conditions of women’s lives.9 If “the traditional tragic hero’s appropriateness lies largely in his dignity, and his...
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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 27–49.
Published: 01 March 2000
... sisters feel but do not understand clearly derives from instinct rather than passion, and it locates them in pre-civilized humanity of the kind described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Essai sur I'Origine des Langues: "il y avoit des mariages, mais il n'y avoit point d'amour. Chaque famille se...
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Genre (2000) 33 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 June 2000
... and the Oriental tales. Even Goethe, 'though the novel bored him dreadfully . . . read it from cover to cover under the impression that he was gleaning reliable information about Byron's private life' (E. M. Butler, Byron and Goethe: Analysis of a Passion [1956], p. 37). If Goethe...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 101–124.
Published: 01 March 2001
... passion over reason (Place 99; Sinclair, Inf. 81). He worries that he is no better than his father, Buck, condemned by male gossips at his funeral for his philandering. Feeling trapped in Nashville into posturing among people he considers good, Jed finds relief when he can let down his guard...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 109–115.
Published: 01 July 2013
... 110 GENRE herself be singular, conforming to no orthodoxy of either thought or action. And while the thinking of singularity demands the most intense exercise of human reason, it does not disregard affect or passion but rather seeks to know if there is reason to act in the way that passion...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 317–340.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the bourgeois enclave of subjectivity itself. For Fourier, the perfect society comes from “passionate attraction,” a perfect matching of sexual partners. For all thinkers who follow in Fourier's tradition, the political program of utopianism must then be eminently a project of “ontological” (rather than, say...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 383–387.
Published: 01 June 2002
... read (special-ordered through a mall chain, since no store in my Midwestern town would carry someone so idiosyncratic as Ellison on its shelves) was An Edge In My Voice, a collection of newspaper columns that variously offered film, tele- vision and print criticism, passionate observations...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 63–80.
Published: 01 March 2001
... that justifies why she remains out of his romantic grasp, as well as justifies the continued sacrifice of his time, his passion, and his poetry for her. In "A Woman Homer Sung," her "fiery blood" invigorates her appearance but does not sug- gest—in this poem at least—the speaker's concern that her political...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 105–128.
Published: 01 June 2011
... . Merback Mitchell . 2005 . “Fount of Mercy, City of Blood: Cultic Anti-Judaism and the Pulkau Passion Altarpiece.” Art Bulletin 87 , no. 4 : 589 – 642 . Newman Jane O. 2009 . “Enchantment in Times of War: Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin, and the Secularization Thesis...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 352–357.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... Thus, Palmer finds one noir film that seems to have an optimistic tone and marks it as a significant precursor. Next, Deborah Knight sets up a contrast between the two terms "reason" and "passion" in order to show that The Maltese Falcon (1941) has its main characters teach viewers morality...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2015
...: “Women are beginning to demand that Marriage shall mean Friendship as well as Passion; that a comrade-­like Equality shall be included in the word Love; and it is recognized that from the one extreme of passionate love (generally between persons of the opposite sex) no hard and fast line can at any...
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 121–142.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Firbank's passionate but implicit argument that is at least partially responsible for the neglect of novels that are as wise and comprehensive in their appraisal of human desire—in its endless variety of manifestations and frustra- tions—as any body of work of the century. II. Firbank's Pastoral...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 151–162.
Published: 01 March 2003
... . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1993 . Owen Hilary . Portuguese Women’s Writing 1972-1986: Reincarnations of a Revolution . Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press , 2000 . Peixoto Marta . Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector . Minneapolis...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 211–214.
Published: 01 March 2003
...-class notions (150). This animal passion, Clapp-Itnyre argues, proved grossly offensive to the middle class and led to the bowdlerization of many folk songs. The author includes reproductions of the folk song The Foggy Dew, in both its original and bowdlerized forms, to illustrate this middle...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 215–219.
Published: 01 March 2003
...-class notions (150). This animal passion, Clapp-Itnyre argues, proved grossly offensive to the middle class and led to the bowdlerization of many folk songs. The author includes reproductions of the folk song The Foggy Dew, in both its original and bowdlerized forms, to illustrate this middle...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 333–335.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the most decorated and overdone expressions of love in order to script love talk as an experience, paradoxically, of passion instead of as a script” (110). Hunter shows how the very play that has become synonymous with love talk takes love talk as its central concern. Other chapters offer similarly...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 167–193.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., which attempts to account for the unique strength, originality, or genius of individual writers and works.2 This means, of course, that the critic must also attend to weaknesses in the work at hand. It was the passion of Bloom’s praise, along with his concomitant effort to steer Ammons away from...