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Drudgery Tales, Abjectified Protagonists, and Speculative Modes in the Adjunctroman of Contemporary Academic Fiction
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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. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oklahoma 2019 adjunctroman Professorroman academic fiction abject speculative ...
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The Semiotics of Speculation: A. J. Greimas and the Example of Literary Criticism
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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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Georgic Disenchantment in American Poetry
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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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“Fog-Shaped Men”: The Remnant Figure in Postbellum American Regionalism
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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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“The English Nation at Bantam ”: Corporate Process in the East India Company's First Factory
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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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Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 327–331.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative (composed ca. 1853–60), Ross shows how the protagonists not only appropriate the positions and tactics of surveillance to subvert their own hypervisibility as Black women but also exploit the speculative aspects...
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Nostromo as Fairy Tale Epic
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Genre (2000) 33 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 March 2000
... reflection.
NOSTROMO AS FAIRY TALE EPIC 85
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...
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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
... that each work cultivates “speculative thinking” (82) and that this suppositional project is where the political energy of each work lies. But Koenigs also insists that this suppositional mode is not essential to the novel form: “[The] sustained focus on the novel . . . has obscured how many of this era's...
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“Plasticity's Central Canon”: Plastics, Gravity's Rainbow , and the Consumer Practice of Science Fiction
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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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Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 401–405.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Marta Figlerowicz Part of me wishes I had heard more from Mendelman, in this book, about big-picture questions such as these. Such more speculative excursions might have mitigated what occasionally came across, in her argument, as a conceptual repetitiveness, a growing predictability to how her...
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Radioactive Forms: Radium, the State, and the End of Victorian Narrative
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
Published: 01 December 2019
... capable of effectively govern- 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...
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The Mom and the Many: Animal Subplots and Vulnerable Characters in Ducks, Newburyport
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... For the housewife may again speculate about their mental worlds, but these animals are not safely individualized, seeing that the family employs “an ever-changing number of hens” (310) and the freezer contents include “the last of Nebuchadnezzar (coq au vin)” (455). Nevertheless, the housewife's chickens are shown...
FIGURES
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Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 173–178.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . 2018 . Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Sontag Susan . 2001 . Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors . New York : Picador . 2. This example is Snediker's. 1...
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“The Persnicketiness of Memory”: Jonathan Safran Foer's Audaciously Imaginative Jewish Memorial Book
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 443–469.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and
fantastic history of shtetl life from his perspective as a third-generation survivor-
descendant.2 In response to his survivor grandmother’s silence, Jonathan creates
his own speculative and folkloric version of his ancestors’ past. His imagina-
tive family history constitutes the descendant’s attempt...
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Survival of the Depressed: The Discourse of Darwinian Psychiatry
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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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Critical Survivors
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Genre (2000) 33 (3-4): 319–329.
Published: 01 September 2000
... to particular authorial actions that have 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...
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The Language of Chance and the Form of Phineas Finn
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
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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 to as
an “adventurer” three times in Phineas Finn — most memorably when Lady...
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“Is an Archive Enough?”: Megatextual Debris in the Work of Rachel Blau DuPlessis
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Graphic Novella , again the poem's speaker declares a “ ‘Rerouting, rewiring, rewriting.’ . . . re as ‘again’ or re as ‘new’ ” while simultaneously asking its readers to speculate about the obliteration of (the generic taxonomies of) modern literature: “drop the modern, / drop the novel, / drop...
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Convoluted Paths: Mapping Genre in Contemporary Footsteps Travel Writing
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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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