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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 289–293.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Samuel Cohen [email protected] Harilaos Stecopoulos , Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2023 . Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 Writing in 1954 to accept...
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Space, Setting, and the Adventure Story: Or, With Perry in Japan
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 39–56.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Concepts in Geography , 95 - 108 . Curry Michael . `` On Space and Spatial Practice in Contemporary Geography .'' In Concepts in Human Geography . SPACE, SETTING, AND THE ADVENTURE STORY:
OR, WITH PERRY IN JAPAN
SHEILA HONES
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The 1903 edition of Kirk Munroe's...
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The Paradox of Failure in the Modernist American Short Story Cycle
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Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 125–149.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Tim Killick COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 THE PARADOX OF FAILURE IN THE MODERNIST
AMERICAN SHORT STORY CYCLE
TIM KILLICK, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Since the publication of Forrest Ingram's pioneering study in 1971, the
short story cycle (or short story...
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A Short Long Story: Mapping the Course of Pain
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Marilyn McEntyre This article considers the value of narrative poetry for stories of illness, a form that holds the facts of those stories in creative tension between extension and compression, elaboration and implication, chronological time and the timeless moment. Narrative and metaphor converge...
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A True Story: The Expression of Troubling Societal Values in the Music of Postmodern Rock
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 205–218.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Underground.” Trans. Kaufmann Walter . Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre . Ed. Kaufmann Walter . New York : Meridian , 1975 . 53 - 82 A TRUE STORY: THE EXPRESSION OF TROUBLING
SOCIETAL VALUES IN THE MUSIC OF POSTMODERN
ROCK
WALTER EVERETT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN...
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Story, Discourse, and the Voice of the Other in W. S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs
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Genre (2019) 52 (1): 51–75.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the history it relates and its ethical implications. To promote this assessment, Merwin inculcates a judicious self-questioning in his readers by means of his narrative structure, which emphasizes the discrepancy between plot and story. By making readers keenly aware of the mechanics of his storytelling...
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Waterloo Sunset: Stories
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 354–361.
Published: 01 September 2001
...William Richey Davies Ray , Waterloo Sunset: Stories . New York : Hyperion , 2000 . 256 pp. $22.95 (cloth). © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 REVIEWS
Hajdu, David. Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan...
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Reading Clarice Lispector with Julia Kristeva: Four Short Stories from Family Ties
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 151–162.
Published: 01 March 2003
... . São Paulo : Abril S/A Cultural e Industrial , 1981 . READING CLARICE LISPECTOR WITH JULIA
KRISTEVA: FOUR SHORT STORIES FROM FAMILY
TIES
GRADY C. WRAY, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
"One is never happy making way for a new truth, for it always means making
our way...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., Lost Children Archive highlights the absences of refugee voices, attends to the histories of violence that have led to their disappearance, and refuses to posit an answer to how the story of the crisis ends. This analysis reroutes theories of the big, ambitious novel through discussions of archival...
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Southern Mother, Lethal Fetus; Or, How Birth Control Makes a Modernist Out of Flannery O'connor
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Aimee Armande Wilson This essay argues that the presence of birth control in a narrative interrupts generic conventions by conditioning modernist subjectivities. The symbolic possibilities of birth control carry the promise and threat of rupture. In the case of Flannery O'Connor's short story...
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Reading Katherine Anne Porter's “He” Through “He”: Versions and Revisions
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 309–334.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Fiona McWilliam This essay seeks to rectify an ongoing problem in scholarship on Katherine Anne Porter. Porter's short story “He,” a key and often-anthologized text, is being read in a revised version without attention to those revisions or the story's original context, the October 1927 issue...
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Coming In ? The Evolution of the Transsexual Memoir in the Twenty-First Century
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 35–71.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Rhiannon Catherwood Beginning with Jay Prosser's Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality , scholars have rightly treated gender transition narratives as cultural objects distinct from homosexual coming-out stories; however, existing scholarship rarely sets these two objects against each...
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Narratives and Metaphors of the Middle
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 293–300.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Shirley Brice Heath This essay examines narrative forms and types of metaphor that relate to “getting on with life”—that middle part of life's story, which is neither start nor finish. Narrative theorists tend to assume that humans, since they began telling stories in ancient times, have relished...
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Narratives, Metaphors, and the Clinical Relationship
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 301–313.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Abraham Fuks; Martin Kreiswirth; Donald Boudreau; Tabitha Sparks The stories that develop between physician and patient are an important aspect of what has been described as narrative medicine. These stories are unique forms of narrative in that they are jointly constructed and enable...
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The Two-Eyed Cyclops: Metaphor and Narrative in American Medical Research Policy
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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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WarGames and the Refamiliarization of the Hacker
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2022
... technology. The protagonist is presented as an outsider by means of literary science fiction devices, only to be made more “normal” and recognizable as part of the school story, love story, and thriller. This refamiliarization gives WarGames a conservative potential, less evident but still present...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and convention). Our introduction focuses on the multiple lines of interconnection between the essays and the character of the story they tell together. Taken as a whole, the story about the fate of lyric poetry at the turn of the twentieth century is rich in the elements of romance: danger, conflict, rescue...
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After Sontag: Reclaiming Metaphor
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 263–276.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Martha Stoddard Holmes Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors critique the use of metaphoric language, particularly military metaphors of invasion and battle, to describe illness experiences. Metaphors generate explanatory narratives, just as stories often use a resonant...
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The Bildungsroman After Individualism: Ellen Glasgow's Communitarian Alternative
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 385–405.
Published: 01 December 2016
... modifies the bildungsroman, one of the most pervasive permutations of the realist novel, to narrate two revolutionary histories: the story of its heroine's development of a communitarian outlook and sense of herself and the story of the realist novel shedding its individualism-inflected past. The essay...
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Microfinance Lit: Jhumpa Lahiri's “Sexy,” the Grameen Bank, and Kiva
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 201–217.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Dan Sinykin This essay develops a poetics of microfinance through an attempt to account for Jhumpa Lahiri's strange mention of the Grameen Bank in the short story “Sexy” from her collection Interpreter of Maladies . It shows how Lahiri's allusion links the intimacy of simulated global space...
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