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Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
... readerly immersion, yet its fictional storyworld may not feel universally plausible. Sharing its writer's experience of teaching Thien in Hong Kong, the article suggests that a critique of the novel's Western, nearly Orientalist standpoint with respect to sensitive issues of recent Chinese history does...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of readerly engagement required to get through a lengthy novel. Due to her focus on the reader, Ryan ( 2015 : 9) defines immersion as “the experience through which a fictional world acquires the presence of an autonomous, language-independent reality populated with live human beings.” The world...
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Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (3-4): 177–200.
Published: 01 September 2008
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ment of multilinearity (and therefore a degree of readerly choice, however facile)
and its powerful deployment of mimesis on several different levels.
The text opens with a statement from “Eric,” in which he explains that the
correspondence which follows is from Mark Condry...
Journal Article
Genre (2015) 48 (3): 341–381.
Published: 01 December 2015
... immersion in the life around her as she watches the
old woman26 enable her to reject Septimus’s overly emotional suicide despite its
allure and return to her party.
III. Readerly Empathy: Woolf’s Common Readers
Having discussed some specific examples of textual empathy inMrs. Dalloway, I...
Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., or the hope, as embod-
ied by The Pilgrim’s Progress, that witnessing an allegorical path to salvation will allow a parallel
worldly movement to emerge in readerly imitation. Literary writing in a very general sense seems to
need to commit itself to the hope that whatever difference or distance exists...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... It is important to note that Oliver also posits himself as one of Nao's readers and, at first, “Ruth” takes issue with this; she becomes possessive of that readerly relationship with Nao, not wanting to share it with Oliver. When he makes the comment that the end of the journal “calls our existence into question...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 79–98.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of pulp writers' varied
responses to the Ku Klux Klan's "ideal of community" as it violently manifested
itself in opposition to racial and ethnic difference (45), and thus immersed the
genre in the national conversation about New Deal politics. Whether the hard-
boiled detective represented...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 95–123.
Published: 01 March 2008
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world is almost entirely implicit rather than explicit in the episode in the sense
that it is not directly represented but must be translated from a variety of historic
English languages and inferred from a range of historic generic conventions.
Yet translations are products of readerly mediation...
Journal Article
Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
Published: 01 December 2019
... guilt, sev- eral pages of meditation unfold while a mere three minutes had elapsed (213). Readerly time, dilating across densely packed pages of psychological impression- ism, outpaces narrative duration up until the moment Winnie recalls the press s images of executions. The following thirty pages...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
... critics have not often made.3 The negative
characterizations cited above reflect the attitudes of characters immersed in the
squalor of actual historical experience—which is to say, deprived of that compo-
3The notable exception is Pamela Demory, who reads Nostromo as "entering...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a comparably immersive world-building and epistemological exploration. Middle sister's description of her relationship status as in “the maybe territory of not knowing” illustrates the tenuous nature of intimacy in her world and exemplifies her larger critique of intellectual rigidity. Critics have developed...
Journal Article
Genre (2015) 48 (3): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2015
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ropolitan readers to remember that the formation of the English nation was itself
immersed in historical conflicts that went back hundreds upon hundreds of years.
It took a significant amount of time for Cumbria to become a part of England,
and this short poem provides an occasion to consider...
Journal Article
Genre (2006) 39 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2006
... would be unable to fathom. We are left to emulate the narrator's
quiet respect for cultural artifacts.
The clearest instance of the cultivation of readerly respect and the sophis-
ticated preparation for misreading lies in the justly famous ogbanje episode
that anticipates Chielo's night...
