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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 219–241.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Years Later . Eds. May Larry Kohn Jerome . Cambridge, MA, and London : The MIT Press , 1996 . 33 - 52 "CANDLE IN THE WIND 1997" AS AN ANTIDOTE TO THE SOCIAL ERASURE OF THE PUBLIC THEODORE GRACYK, MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MOORHEAD Another unsettling element...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 211–214.
Published: 01 March 2003
...R. Michelle Lee Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel , Clapp-Itnyre Alisa , Ohio University Press , Athens , 2002 . COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 265–270.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Ben Parker Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847240 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Reviews Cluster: Form ben parker Anna Kornbluh, The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. In Bunyan s The Pilgrim s Progress, we...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 61–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Tom Eyers [email protected] Anahid Nersessian , The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 One could do a serviceable job of narrating the history of professional anglophone...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 283–286.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as a trading power, the chapter at times strikes an ambivalently triumphal note. This chapter's account of capitalism's literary effects feels less tempered by the critique of its social costs that is central both to the earlier chapters and to the Marxist tradition on which the study as a whole draws. Though...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Mark McGurl Abstract The term “cultural capital” has entered the general lexicon of cultural criticism as a description of social prestige won through the acquisition of knowledge rather than monetary wealth. And, yet, for all its utility in delineating the form of value acquired by students...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 93–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
...,” pointing in each to a sociological determinism, for which well‐intentioned social actions intended to address racial and gendered inequalities of representation seem only to prop up structures of market domination. In spite of Bourdieu's resistance to American discourses of racial identity, the article...
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Genre (2024) 57 (2): 143–168.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Arnab Dutta Roy Abstract The twentieth century is witness to a revival of interest in the bildungsroman as writers, especially from postcolonies in the Global South, turn to it to reflect on concerns of history, culture, and social life in a postcolonial setting. Scholars, however, disagree...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 419–442.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., and drug use and addiction. This hybrid genre draws on the emotional strength of melodrama to help viewers forge connections with characters and draws on the reasoned response that is elicited through realism to create sophisticated interpretations of the program's representations of social and political...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in the “career” as the form of individual development, the characterization of Phineas as an adventurer—and the depiction of romantic and political outcomes in London as stochastic—reveal a causal disjunction between individual choice and the mechanisms of social progress. Parliament is the setting of both...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Jean Gregorek Henning Mankell describes his goal in the best-selling Wallander novels as an examination of the social antagonisms in his native Sweden, particularly with regard to race and immigration, within the commercial genre of the police procedural. This essay complicates Mankell's claims...
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Genre (2018) 51 (2): 183–207.
Published: 01 July 2018
... is subordinated, undermining the privilege allotted realistic modes of fiction and extending its disturbance into the social and political frameworks in which distinctions of fiction and reality are maintained. Theorizing the significance of the prefix un by means of the political critique of democracy Jacques...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and social experience with American identity and citizenship. Yet, at the level of minor characters, Shuffle is less negating racial ideologies and more forwarding a global conceptualization of race. Specifically articulated through a series of non- Black or white minor characters, Shuffle offers alternative...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 141–159.
Published: 01 July 2022
... paradoxes. Abse viewed graffiti with a distancing sociological eye, even as he recognized the limits of that perspective by stressing the culpability of each person, including himself, in widening social inequalities. Larkin approached graffiti with a mix of disdain at the defacement of public property...
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Genre (2011) 44 (1): 55–74.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the return of religion in its more public forms in recent decades, any more than one could have foreseen the great reopening of the question of secularization within social theory since 1990. If, as I argue, the complete eradication of religious thought, which is to say a “finished” project of secularization...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 393–403.
Published: 01 September 2011
...George J. Annas Health care insurance reform and medical research in the United States have been driven by metaphor and narrative. Obama's year-long reform effort effectively used the narrative of social progress (and the compelling stories of his dying mother and grandmother and their bitter...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the characters have reevaluated their social hierarchies and divested themselves of Edenic notions of Alaska. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 Works Cited Adamson Joni Evans Mei Mei Stein Rachel , eds. 2002 . The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... on the nature of these narratives as paradigmatic of the ages they strive to represent, particularly in their implied resonance on class and power structures: an age of nameless history, where individuality is characterized by blurred signifiers and collectivity is the founding element of everyday social...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 215–238.
Published: 01 March 2012
... essential to her recent books of social witness, One Big Self, Rising, Falling, Hovering , and One with Others. Deepstep teaches us to read these more recent books of Wright's. It also teaches us, indirectly, to read again the larger Romantic and modernist traditions that Deepstep and these recent books...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 155–160.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Ugo Mattei Recent judgments of the Italian Constitutional Court and the transformation of the joint-stock company Azienda Risorse Idriche Napoli (ARIN, Naples Water Resource Company) into the public concern Acqua Bene Comune Napoli (Naples Water Common Good) are important examples of how social...