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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 85–108.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and at its best revels in the “crises” of higher education to begin imagining the twenty-first-century professoriat anew. adjunctroman Professorroman academic fiction abject speculative Copyright © 2019 by University of Oklahoma 2019 ...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2009
... . Williams Raymond , The Politics of Modernism . London : Verso , 1989 . Wegner Phillip , “ Jameson’s Modernisms; or the Desire called Utopia ,” diacritics ( 2007 ), 37 : 2 - 20 . THE SEMIOTICS OF SPECULATION: A. J.
GREIMAS AND THE EXAMPLE OF LITERARY
CRITICISM
RONALD...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., discusses the type’s peculiar characteristics, and speculates on the reactions it drew from its original audiences. Genre, Vol. 52, No. 3 December 2019 DOI 10.1215/00166928-7965792 © 2019 by University of Oklahoma Fog- Shaped Men : The Remnant Figure in Postbellum American Regionalism nir evron Chapters 5...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 117–134.
Published: 01 July 2016
...–present), which critiques the Old Weird's reactionary politics by adopting a radically affirmative perspective on the body and the alien. During the New Weird period, philosophy and critical theory are also infected with weird elements of nihilism and radical antihumanism, as in the speculative realist...
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Genre (2015) 48 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of this process. Mariners and factors on fixed salaries risked and were far likelier to lose their lives than shareholders their high-yielding speculations. The loss during the first voyage of Jacobean England's greatest merchant ship and crew in Bantam shocked England's maritime and mercantile communities...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the irreconcilable paradoxes of labor under industrial capitalism while speculating on the compensatory value poetry alone can produce. © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Works Cited Barlow Joel . 1787 . The Vision of Columbus . Hartford, CT : Hudson and Goodwin . Barrell John . 1983...
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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
...
for a contest of ideologies, "the tide of political speculation . . . beating high
within the four walls of the great sola" (192). But it evaporates into impressionist
tints, much of it taken up with Decoud's confidential declaration of love to
Antonia. In a significant juxtaposition, the lovers...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 115–136.
Published: 01 March 2010
... American and subsequently
European consumer culture, named the “plastics age” by historians,” generated
a great deal of excitement and utopian speculation. When plastics were still rela-
tively new, science journalism and popular science accounts of plastics generi-
cally resembled science fiction...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 401–405.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with the Dog” with this sentence, Chekhov's narrator marks an ambivalent opening. He suggests that the couple—and, implicitly, the coming century—face difficulties created not just by modernity's new speculative freedoms but also by the process of switching into new patterns of behavior from within older...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
Published: 01 December 2019
...- ing radioactive subjects. I turn then to utopian engagements with the radioactive revolution by tracing the links between Soddy s speculations on the political and evolutionary potential of atomic energy and scientific romances by Josiah Henry Harris and Wells. Examining Soddy s and Wells s use...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to racism, capitalism, and the end of the world intimate that Ellmann's novel fits into a divergent literary project, which does not shy away from structural violence. The protagonist's speculations about animal minds and fast “bird novels” further suggest that her narrative differentiates itself...
FIGURES
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 173–178.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to the enmeshment of metaphor and literality has enabled “black women's speculative fiction” to “change[] the rules of interpretation and analysis.” Contingent Figure takes up these strands of disability theory and, equipped with its author's astounding vocabulary, gives them unprecedented occasions to flourish...
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“The Persnicketiness of Memory”: Jonathan Safran Foer's Audaciously Imaginative Jewish Memorial Book
Genre (2012) 45 (3): 443–469.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Jonathan creates
his own speculative and folkloric version of his ancestors’ past. His imagina-
tive family history constitutes the descendant’s attempt at a Jewish memorial
book. Through Jonathan’s attempts to imagine Trachimbrod, Foer dramatizes
the paradoxical experience of the survivor’s...
Journal Article
Genre (2011) 44 (3): 381–391.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., computer science, biology, and also psychiatry.
Darwinian Psychiatry: A Brief Introduction
Darwinian psychiatry, or evolutionary psychiatry as it is also known, is among
the most recent and in some ways the most radical and speculative of attempts
to claim psychic territory in the name...
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Genre (2000) 33 (3-4): 319–329.
Published: 01 September 2000
... claims on us in
our actual world. And he engages both topics with such precision and imagina-
tion that he makes it possible for a critic to elaborate speculative possibilities that
Moran would probably not approve, especially because these possibilities open
significant connections between...
Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to prudence” that Phineas repeats as he contemplates a return
to parliamentary life (Trollope [1874] 1993, 1:11 – 12). That Phineas should be
aligned with the Melmottes and guano speculators of the Trollopean universe
should perhaps not come as a surprise. He is, after all, explicitly referred...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... it might find for rather different ends. Drafts is thus a postmodern inheritor of the modernist long poem and a work that participates in a speculative twenty-first-century megatextuality, for DuPlessis's “actual text” consists of material well beyond Drafts ’ five volumes: it spreads connections...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in Kingsley’s, is not to discover the truth
as they have established it but to half create one’s own journey.
Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild:
“We Can Do No More Than Speculate”
Into the Wild may not have the same direct, metatextual concern with what con-
stitutes truth in travel writing that one...
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Genre (2008) 41 (3-4): 123–147.
Published: 01 September 2008
...-unfulfilled potential of these media for literary pro-
duction. Such speculation need not involve naive techno-boosterism, nor need it
involve a new theory of narrative. Rather, one need only think, with Marie-Laure
Ryan and others, in terms of transmedial narratology, that which preserves...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 63–80.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., W. B. Yeats
"lightly" referred "to the love for Maud Gonne that was on his audience's
minds" but "refused to read any poem that could be construed as autobiographi-
cal" (Maddox 157). It seems fair to ask, what poems could he have read that
would prevent the audience from speculating...
