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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 575–598.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in Southern California . Austin : U of Texas P , 1998 . "NL MIEDO DE LA PINTA, NI MIEDO DE LA MUERTE": JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA'S PRISON POEMS PAULA M. BRUNO, UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND Discourse on the Latino/a borderlands seeks to define and to address the tensions between dominant...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 April 2016
...John Limon This essay attempts to define into existence the supergeneric category of “escapism” by way of analyzing Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. The essay (following the genre-defining procedures of Tzvetan Todorov) argues that there are three rules of escapism: all...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 April 2014
...-en-scène, sound track, camera work, and montage, the essay argues that Roth and Coixet roughly match genre to ideological style: late style inscribes the failed confession in the novel, while timeliness rewrites the film as an elegy. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of memory. It enumerates sounds, smells, and objects that give a thick sense of the patient's point of view. A close reading reveals how the poem articulates the emotional complexity of the speaker's sense of impending death—from disgust and loneliness, to homesickness and political apathy, to longing...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 March 2007
... "silent" composition, generally referred to as 4'33" due to the length of its debut performance, shows his reliance on contextual con- tingency in a performance setting to direct the audience's attention to sounds that we usually ignore. Strictly speaking, the piece lacks a content specifically...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 243–264.
Published: 01 September 2001
... October 2001 at http://www.patrickdailly.f9.co.uk/UNDENIED.htm . Eisen Jonathan , ed. The Age of Rock: Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution . New York : Vintage Books/Random House , 1969 . Fricke David . “Kurt Cobain: The Rolling Stone Interview.” In George-Warren Holly...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 283–287.
Published: 01 September 2010
... stirred to extremity. There would be little impropriety if we defined man as an animal that makes sounds round the clock, regardless of the season. The birds twitter in the spring; the crickets chirp in the fall; the mosquitoes drone in the summer; the birds...
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Genre (2011) 44 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
...: The Personal ‘Pilgrimage.’” PMLA 78 . 5 ( December ): 586 – 600 . Hanscombe Gillian E. 1982 . The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness . Athens : Ohio University Press . Ihde Don . 2007 . Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 431–434.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Chow Rey Steintrager James , eds. 2011 . “The Sense of Sound.” Special issue, differences 22 , nos. 2–3 . Derrida Jacques . (1996) 1998 . Monolingualism of the Other...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 169–178.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of mechanical reproduction. In fact, even on very early rock records we can hear an almost giddy delight in the artificial and reproduced nature of the music. The Beatles, for instance, introduce Revolver (1966) with the sounds of coughing, the band noodling on their guitars, various electronic noises...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 245–259.
Published: 01 June 2004
... also contributes to the appropri- ateness of his new nickname, "Schoolboy For mastering the band's sound so soon, he gathers accolades from the other band members—and anyone else who hears him play, for that matter, including other bandleaders and the occasional record producer. His luck...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Serves Imperialism and Other Essays . London : Latimer New Directions , 1974 . —. `` Wiggly Lines and Wobbly Music .'' Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New Music . Ed. Battcock Gregory . New York : Dutton , 1981 . 235 - 253 . Coleman Ornette . Liner...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 285–299.
Published: 01 June 2004
...," the narrator stands in his classroom, listening to a student whistling outside: "One boy was whistling a tune, at once very compli- cated and very simple, it seemed to be pouring out of him as though he were a bird, and it sounded very cool and moving through all that harsh, bright air, only just...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 121–142.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of language, like learning to read, entails setting aside its material constituents. We learn to tune out or turn down the sounds, durations, and rhythms of words, their surface likenesses and patterns of coincidence, so that the conventional or “arbitrary” workings of the linguistic code can come...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 219–237.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to be description, as in the figure of limiting vision to take aim. Thus, again in “A Prejudice” he remarkably creates a language for sound itself: The chirping of magpies, as clear and piercing as the scissor, and the snarl and rattle of the aged magpies, dry and barbed...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 279–290.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and practitioner, reflecting the shattered genealogies which comprise our everyday relationship to the semiotic universe. The medium is no longer the message, but the media, plural. In the following discussion I will rely largely on artists working with sound or music in order to illustrate the notion...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and the Apaches” (Luiselli 2019 : 21). One box belongs to the woman narrator and contains the materials for a sound project focused on the refugee crisis, a project she begins after working with a Mixteca woman named Manuela who is looking for her two daughters. 3 The remaining two boxes are for each...
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Genre (2006) 39 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., but of poetry as a distinct means of recording trauma, thereby moving beyond a rhetorical formulation of trauma and into a poetical theorization by focusing on what distinguishes poetry from prose: the physical experience of rhythm. By pressing words against meter, sense against sound, poetry...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the missing child refugees, their discussion of On the Road further illuminates the novel's inchoate critique. The husband imagines On the Road as “a perfect choice” for their trip, given that whether or not the children understand it, the “rhythm” of the prose will be “enjoyable,” his sense of the sound...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., that Coltrane's "sheets of sound" approach was the "opposite [of] a horizontal, melodic approach" (56). Most important, however, is what this verti- cally portends: a reluctance to leave any musical instant until all its possibilities 114 ' GENRE have been exhausted...