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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 April 2016
... within Austria, and the public stage of escapism is continuous from there to Broadway to (via the film) the world. It is by way of the world reach of The Sound of Music that we can conceive of escapism as the soul of globalization: the essence of globalization is that there is no elsewhere, which means...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Emma Heaney This article begins by tracing the figure of gender inversion from Karl Heinrich Ulrichs's mid-nineteenth-century celebration of the “woman's soul confined in a man's body” to Edward Carpenter's early twentieth-century disavowal of the effeminate “of the extreme type,” whose gender...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 73–77.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., but the soul. Keenly aware that a study of poetry about heaven and immortality may not appeal to contemporary secularist sensibilities, our culture of embodiment, or accepted philosophical-scientific physicalism, Stewart manages to shed light on the crucial roles of the afterlife in poets from John Milton...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 331–340.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to the word "soul"— thanks to music and the priceless event. In this he is his mother's son, the moth- er who one day told him what I wanted to tell all of you while protesting against what he himself had said. If you reread the short text that he has written to announce Civilization, you will see...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 279–282.
Published: 01 September 2010
... clean after the bath, and the flower or the meal appeals to you. It’s mainly due to the fact that you’re free from care and a relaxed soul can concentrate on the physical perception for the enjoyment of appreciation and appraisal. If you’re in low spirits, say...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 125–147.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... A Freudian before Freud, Poe knew that, in the final analysis, no one can lay his heart absolutely bare (see first epigraph), the cost is just too high. Poe knew, that is, that when in his confessions Rousseau remarks "I should like to be able to make my soul to a certain extent transparent...
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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., relating it to the "soul-making" allegories of feminist fiction, to the dynamic ideologies of the eighteenth-century fin de siecle, to Georg Lukacs's illuminating account of historical fiction, and eventually to the German Romantic tradition that culminates in Hegel's philoso- phy...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 309–329.
Published: 01 June 2002
... the better for you" (De Profundis, 510, 511, 551). The lesson's eroticism, however, is not simply in its imagining of the scourg- ing of Bosie's body and soul, the scarring and scorching of his pale face and deli- cate flesh. The permeability that makes it an erotic affect links shame...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 421–447.
Published: 01 December 2017
... insists in the body of the treatise that passions are “actes of the sensitive power, or facultie of our soule,” or “a sensual motion of our appetitive facultie, through imagination of some good or ill thing,” that “alter the humours of our bodies” and that “passions then be certaine internall...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 575–598.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and less visible discourses of pun- ishment (8). Foucault explains that over the course of the mid eighteenth centu- ry, and in the absence of a physical target, the soul became the focus as "the expiation that once rained down upon the body must be replaced by a punish- ment that acts in depth...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 341–381.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that accords with Georg Simmel’s understanding of the giving of a first gift, described as ‘a beauty, a spontaneous devotion to the other, an opening up and flowering from the “virgin soil” of the 354 GENRE soul’ . . . and as such . . . constitutes perhaps the fullest...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 173–199.
Published: 01 June 2004
... engage in remaking them- selves, but they continually undermine, question, and trouble the very coherence Porter's assessment implies. In Beneath the Underdog, for instance, the narrative frame of the therapy session signals the text to be a mode of soul-searching. But when Mingus's therapist...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 351–358.
Published: 01 June 2012
... bodily source, thus assuming a more general symbolic significance. A chief example of such “higher,” spiritual pain is religious suffering, and the religious literature is indeed replete with examples of the use of pain to describe the soul’s torments in living a life estranged from its divine...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2020
... replies, Yes, but Yoshiko is black at heart. You can tell. She got soul like. . . . Who s that actor I like always play the Japanese n[ ] in them shogun movies? (Beatty 1996: 168). In this instance, we find the unlikely inclu- sion of Yoshiko into the category of Blackness. Here, as in other places...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of the type "X Plays/Sings Z4 1.2 The genre of the music: Albert Ammons, Boogie-Woogie Classics; Ike Que- bec, Heavy Soul; Kenny Dorham, Afro-Cuban; Art Hodes, Dixieland Jubilee; George Lewis, Echoes of New-Orleans; Charlie Rouse, Bossa Nova Bacchanal; Grant Green, The Latin Bit. These titles...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 June 2004
... . Blesh Rudi Janis Harriet . They All Played Ragtime , New York : Knopf , 1950 ; 4th ed. New York: Oak, 1971 . DuBois W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk . New York : Modern Library , 2003 . Handy W. C. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography . New York : DaCapo...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 283–307.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in time, eschew vocational and sexual closure, refuse social adjustment, or establish themselves as evergreen souls via the tender offices of the Kunstlerroman ” (Esty 2013 : 4). 7. Simon Hay ( 2013 : 323) identifies a similar deferral of bildung in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions when...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to such works as the Psy- chomachia of Prudentia or The Pricke of Conscience, appears in allegorical terms to be the battle for the soul's virtue 46 That Virginia is a figure for the human 41Hoffman, "Jepthah's Daughter," 23-6 and Brown, "The Physician and His Tale," 139-40 focus...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 355–382.
Published: 01 June 2002
... : Routledge , 1992 . Mozingo Joe . “Out There: Proving He Can Climb the Highest Mountain.” The Los Angeles Times . 16 June 2001 : B2 . Norgay Jamling Tenzing . Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest . San Francisco : Harper , 2001 . Ortner...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 47–64.
Published: 01 March 2004
... des Religion 84 ( 1993 ): 181 - 88 . Du Bois W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk . 1903 . Ed. Gates Henry Oliver Terri Hume . New York & London : Norton & Co. , 1999 . Edwards Brent Hayes . `` Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat .'' Critical Inquiry...