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Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Bill Knight In their ongoing rejection of what I call “ethical retirement,” Sarah Fielding's pair of novels, David Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753), mobilize a satirical criticism of mid-century worldly conceptions of the ethical worth of private and privative individualism. The works...
Journal Article
Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2007
... complex use of the graveyard,
and one which depends on an seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tradition,
is found in "The Vantage Point," a poem which presents us with the figure of
retirement who can "seek again mankind" only as an observer: "Myself unseen,
THE PASTORAL...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (3): 368–370.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the discipline of literary studies. Hillis was my teacher for graduate school at UC Irvine. Before I prepared the dissertation he advised so generously even after his official retirement in 2002 , I took the seminars on speech acts he offered while writing his books Speech Acts in Literature...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2011) 44 (3): 263–276.
Published: 01 September 2011
... it in the next
sentence: “Of course, one cannot think without metaphors. But . . . some meta-
phors we might well abstain from or try to retire” (1990, 93).
Illness as Metaphor is hugely important as a space- clearing move — a state-
ment that elbows out the walls that constrain our thought and slaps...
Journal Article
Genre (2002) 35 (1): 121–142.
Published: 01 March 2002
... toward life
that favors freedom over responsibility, leisure over labor, retirement over
engagement, desire over sublimation, friendship over family, the past over the
future, and art above all.
At its heart, the pastoral has a vision of an idealized past world, which is
sometimes labeled...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 327–336.
Published: 01 September 2010
... as
mayor of Venice before retiring from politics. For the past forty years Cacciari
has continued to alternate between writings on party politics on the one hand
and increasingly abstruse studies of modernist art, architecture, music and phi-
losophy on the other. He often...
Journal Article
Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 163–187.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of retirement income, such as an antique
stall, pecan harvest or root-beer stand You are like someone whose face was
photographed in a crowd scene once and then gradually retreated from people's
memories, and from life as well. (84)
Like the speaker of "Grand Galop" in his back yard...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the Nazi Party in 1943 and he survived the
destruction of Hitler’s Reich. In 1948, he found himself officially “retired,” and
remained so for six years. But like other colleagues, Brunner ended up with a
respectable post-war academic career, teaching at the University of Hamburg
from...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 39–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
...,
Soane's antiquarian imagines that a dark and retired spot within the ruins might
mark the place in the temple where Vestal Virgins "found guilty of human
frailty" were "immured & left to starve" (64). "Here is food for meditation
even to madness," the narrator concludes (64). Such horror echoes...
Journal Article
Genre (2019) 52 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and 6 of Sarah Orne Jewett s The Country of the Pointed Firs ([1896] 2000) describe an encounter between the sojourning narrator and Captain Lit- tlepage, a retired shipmaster and leftover from Maine s long- defunct shipping industry. The aged captain is returning from the funeral of a certain Mrs. Begg...
Journal Article
Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 1–44.
Published: 01 March 2005
...-
tiveness, or alternately, he seeks rural retirement and quietude, which points to a
more contemplative frame of mind. The georgic poet alludes to the pastoral mode
in his treatment of the second option, and soon reprises that mode during the
summer idyll in Book III, assuming the persona...
Journal Article
Genre (2013) 46 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that “a crusty retired sailor called Captain Milward” met Parker
and Longabaugh at the British Club in Rio Gallegos in 1905 (98). Once more,
MAPPING GENRE IN FOOTSTEPS TRAVEL WRITING 307
footsteps double back on each other, as Chatwin subtly links the random with the
planned, fact...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2001
... appearance it retired into the back-
ground only to dominate more thoroughly all other discursive and material con-
structions of individual and collective agency. Accordingly, mistaken political
identity is the theme of the first chapter, in which Szalay takes on leftist or social-
ist writers...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 161–163.
Published: 01 March 2001
... did not jump out at contemporaries in anything like a
full-blown, totalized form" (18). As this book argues, the emergent welfare state
was so insidious that after a brief discursive appearance it retired into the back-
ground only to dominate more thoroughly all other discursive and material con...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 164–167.
Published: 01 March 2001
... did not jump out at contemporaries in anything like a
full-blown, totalized form" (18). As this book argues, the emergent welfare state
was so insidious that after a brief discursive appearance it retired into the back-
ground only to dominate more thoroughly all other discursive and material con...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (1): 15–31.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Bolingbrook” and in particular to Gray's citation therein of Wollaston's meditation on the soul's immortality in Religion of Nature, Delineat'd . Wollaston presents that meditation as if by a “man walking in some retired field, far from noise, and free from prejudice,” and the “Elegy” can be understood...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
...” (O'Brien [1859] 1925: 196), Harry retires to his bed only to be attacked, in the complete darkness, by a strong, wiry creature whom he eventually manages to overpower. Upon turning on the light, the man realizes he is holding down a physical, material, but completely invisible being. Over the course of two...
Journal Article
Genre (2002) 35 (1): 25–53.
Published: 01 March 2002
... not fall back or retire; they flee. The
force in the language itself insists that their indomitable courage should be
labeled rabid fury" (308, 312-13).31 Even the arch-conservative statesman and
historian Lucas Alaman (1792-1853) took issue with Prescott's language, arguing
that Prescott...
Journal Article
Genre (2006) 39 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 September 2006
... years after
returning from China and Japan, when he traveled to Germany and met with the
man to whom he had dedicated The Cyclopaedia — Alexander Von Humboldt.
Having retired from active life, Humboldt was engaged in writing the massive
work that was to represent the culmination of his...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2008
... this late-coming representation is strange-
ly indirect and mediated, amounting mostly to a narratorial projection of Lady
Audley's psychology. Braddon writes that Lady Audley retires to her room and
"sat down on a low seat by the fire to think" (310). Instead of narrating Lady
Audley's thinking...
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