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The Good Guys: McCarthy's The Road as Post – 9/11 Male Sentimental Novel
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Sentimental Novel
nell sullivan, university of houston – downtown
In his review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Michael Chabon (2007,
1) notes the novel’s consonance with “the growing sense in the minds of readers
and writers alike, since the mid-twentieth century, of the plausibility...
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Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive 's Reenactment Play
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 April 2021
... as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler colonial frontier fantasy, the essay focuses particularly on Lost Children Archive 's engagement with the tradition of the white male road novel...
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Reading and Listening to Lost Children Archive : Audiobooks as Oral History
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and their two children who are stepsiblings on a road trip from New York City to the US Southwest. Along the way, characters take photographs, and, more unusually, record their own voices and the sounds of the environments they pass through. This article extends explorations of how sound works in the novel...
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From Modernizing Tradition to Traditionalizing Modernity: U. R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara as Postcolonial Bildungsroman
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Genre (2024) 57 (2): 143–168.
Published: 01 July 2024
... closely at a version of the postcolonial bildungsroman proposed by the Kannada writer U. R. Ananthamurthy in his 1965 novel Samskara . The novel follows an orthodox Brahmin priest from Karnataka who, disillusioned by the corruption and moral decay in his community, embarks on a pilgrimage to rediscover...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ideologies that were tacitly endorsed in the traditional “American road novel” (e.g., Kerouac's On the Road ). Breaking from that legacy, Lost Children Archive attempts to “imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics” that are contrary to the surveillance regime that dominates the US-Mexico border...
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“Paradise Actually Exists”: Biopolitics and Utopian Praxis in William S. Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 171–197.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Actually Exists”:
Biopolitics and Utopian Praxis
in William S. Burroughs’s The Place of Dead Roads
christian haines, dartmouth college
William S. Burroughs’s late trilogy, consisting of the novels Cities of the Red
Night (1981), The Place of Dead Roads (1983), and The Western Lands (1987...
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Dismantling the Western: Film Noir's Defiance of Genre in No Country for Old Men
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 December 2014
... that
dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there.
And then I woke up. (309)
The dream, which becomes the basis of McCarthy’s next novel, The Road (2006),
invokes the possibility of generational continuity, expressing a desire for filial
transmission...
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The Seven League Boots : Albert Murray's “Swing” Poetics
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 245–259.
Published: 01 June 2004
... . Johnson Charles . `` Keeping the Blues at Bay .'' The New York Times Book Review ( March 10 , 1996 ): 4 . Karrer Wolfgang . `` The Novel as Blues: Albert Murray's Train Whistle Guitar .'' The Afro-American Novel since 1960 . Ed. Bruck Peter Karrer Wolfgang . Amsterdam...
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The Secret History of Sprawl: Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive People and the Deterritorialization of Suburbia
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 199–229.
Published: 01 July 2014
...)
and elaborated on by Lolita, Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
(1955), John Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1960), and Richard Yates’s Revolutionary
Road (1961), among many others. This pattern, which has come to dominate the
suburban novel genre, runs as follows: the oppressive conventionality...
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Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 271–277.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 1939 novel The Big Sleep, the hard- boiled private detective Philip Marlowe describes himself as a guy who can still speak Eng- lish if there s any demand for it. There isn t much in my trade. I worked for Mr. Wilde, the District Attorney, as an investigator once (Chandler 1964: 7). As Len Gutkin...
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The Paradox of Failure in the Modernist American Short Story Cycle
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Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 125–149.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Morris, The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle in Transition (New
York: Twayne, 1995), 4.
3 Robert M. Luscher, "The Short Story Sequence: An Open Book," in Short Story Theory at a Cross-
roads, ed. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellen Clarey (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University
Press...
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Nervous Conditions , Lukács, and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., and the project of postcolonial emancipation, on the other. Managing contradictions is a standard feature of the bidungsroman, though, and the essay argues that what makes Nervous Conditions interesting is the way it addresses this particular core contradiction. What marks Dangarembga's novel as distinct from...
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The Pretty Woman Goes Global: Or, Learning to Love ``Americanization'' in Notting Hill
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 309–326.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Phillip E. Wegner COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2006 WORKS CITED Armstrong Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1987 . Arrighi Giovanni . The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power...
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Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Elizabeth Hewitt My summary of the book reveals that in some ways Koenigs's plotting of fiction's development is a familiar one: the chaotic possibility of early fictional experiments ultimately succumbs to an endpoint in which the novel is harnessed to individualism—in which fiction becomes...
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Sketches of Autonomy: Capitalist Subsumption and Working-Class Resistance in Alan Sillitoe's Early Fiction
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 435–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Stephen , 148 – 62 . Cardiff : University of Wales Press . Bentley Nick . 2007 . Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s . Bern, Switzerland : Lang . Black Lawrence . 2002 . The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951–64: Old Labour, New Britain...
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The New Opioid Novel
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Mitchum Huehls Abstract “The New Opioid Novel” explores a collection of contemporary US fiction published in the 2010s that tackles the current opioid crisis. Differentiating these new opioid novels from earlier opioid literature, opioid memoirs, and other contemporary drug literature, this essay...
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Narrative Desolation and Postcolonial Naturalism in V. S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 December 2017
... that are already too late.
Out of such failures grows the increasing density of affect. In the novel’s
opening pages, against the infernal backdrop of the perpetually smoking hill-
sides, Jane and Roche make their way to Thrushcross Grange: “The asphalt-road
was wet-black, distorted in the distance...
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Sherwood Anderson's “The Book of the Grotesque” And the Fate of Storytelling in Modern America
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 57–79.
Published: 01 March 2007
... . Allegories of Reading . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1982 . Derrida Jacques . Of Grammatology . Tr. Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Corrected edition . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1997 . Dunn Maggie Morris Ann . The Composite Novel: The Short Story...
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The Geography of the Combat Narrative: Unearthing Identity, Narrative, and Agency in the Iraq War
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 163–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception . New York : Public Affairs , 2008 . Monmonier Mark . How to Lie with Maps . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1991 . Moretti Franco . Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 . London : Verso , 1998 . Morton Timothy...
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Tragedy in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., and the modern medical and judicial sys-
tem, on the other. Throughout the unfolding escalation are tantalizing hints of
possible solutions, of roads not taken — possibilities that come to naught at the
dark close of the novel yet nonetheless call into question the inevitability of the
tragic ending...
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