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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 31–55.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Laura M. White COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Agathocleous Tanya . “ Wordsworth at the Panorama: The Sublime Spectacle of the World .” Genre 36 ( 2003 ): 295 - 316 . Aguirre Robert D. “ Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2003
... . Cambridge, MA : Belknap , 1978 . Andrews Maureen Gillespie , ed. William Wordsworth's “The Sublime in Landscape”: Text and Critical Edition . Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms , 1972 . Booth Charles . Life and Labour of the People in London . New York : AMS , 1970...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 129–156.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Daniel Darvay This article argues that Virginia Woolf's theory and practice of the novel extends key elements of the gothic sublime shared by nineteenth-century sensation fiction and by contemporaneous psychiatric methods of diagnosis. In novels such as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Mary...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 167–193.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Their correspondence, while full of expressions of love and admiration, also shows them affectionately tussling over the relative merits of nature and transcendence, the sublime and the everyday, with Bloom repeatedly urging Ammons to leave mundane particulars behind and mount higher into the visionary stratosphere...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 139–152.
Published: 01 April 2017
... on Caroline Levine's metaconcept and brief history of “the enormity effect,” drawing especially on Paolo Virno's discussion of the fate of the structuring principles of sublimity in our own contemporary moment of precarious labor and multitude. Robert Mitchell is Marcello Lotti Professor of English...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 April 2017
... at Cornell University. She is the author of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015). © 2017 by University of Oklahoma 2017 realism novel data statistics sublime distant reading Works Cited Apter Emily . 2013 . Against World Literature: On the Politics...
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 395–432.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Dale Townshend COPYRIGHT © 2005 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2005 WORKS CITED Armstrong Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York : Oxford UP , 1987 . Baillie John . An Essay on the Sublime . 1747 . Intro. Monk Samuel Holt...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 199–211.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., to invoke horror — bad awe. I think this a torqued iteration of the sublime, which locates them within the SF/f tradition. There can be a danger, I think, of a sort of crudely arithmetic critique of the traditional “SF versus f” heuristic, of simply listing the (numerous) texts that don’t sit...
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Genre (2006) 39 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 March 2006
... century came to inspire the earnestly sublime reading to which it is now subjected. The author's point of departure is his concept of endolectura as a pro-gram- ma (expressed as hermeneutic code), an idea he first elaborated in his previous book, Teoria de la (endo)lectura literaria del...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 July 2017
... titled The Ethics of Genre , which studies the development of ethical philosophy through theories and practices of sublime aesthetics and literary genre from the Scriblerians through Kant. © 2017 by University of Oklahoma 2017 Sarah Fielding David Simple eighteenth-century British...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 107–126.
Published: 01 September 2006
... was far from advocating Japanese approaches. "To our Western mind this impressionism," he writes, "is often obscurely allu- sive. It transcends our comprehension. We want passages of pathos that draw tears, sublime utterances that overawe our soul, and humorous conceits that draw laughter." And yet...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 221–238.
Published: 01 September 2003
...], The phant," from Clever Stories of Many Nations by John G. image of the known and the Saxe, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Page 61. accessible enables the approach to the sublime, the abstract, or the total from a single perspective, and Saxe's...
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Genre (2006) 39 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Amittai F. Aviram's Telling Rhythm: Body and Meaning in Poetry (1994) makes the most sustained argument for the force of rhythm as the primary distinguishing property of poetry. Accord- ing to Aviram, "the sublime power of rhythm in connection with the body" (7) offers the participant a feeling...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 277–282.
Published: 01 December 2022
... a figure privately obsessed with the sublimity of nature, for though invocations of the “sublime” are absent from On the Origin of Species and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and appear just once in The Descent of Man , they feature routinely throughout the fifteen Beagle Notebooks...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 269–298.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., a space where existence is unified and grounded by a mystical sublime, and human beings encounter this sacred “order” through nonlogical venues. This is precisely why art — and literature in particular — are able to unite human beings: it does not share the requirements of empirical and rational...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 303–329.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Armgart’s public and private identities and the poem’s politically charged representations of gender and performance, see Kehler 2004, 2006. 316 GENRE I accept the peril. I choose to walk high with sublime dread Rather than crawl in safety. And, besides, I am an artist as you...
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Genre (2000) 33 (3-4): 279–317.
Published: 01 September 2000
... are balanced between reverence for the authority of the poet and work, whose sublimity can only be approached, and a yearning for a radically open creative reading, very much within the Emersonian tradition, in which criticism is renewed in its encounter with an originary poetic truth. A kind of second...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2007
... . “ From Sublime to Rigamarole: Relations of Frost to Wordsworth .” Robert Frost: Modern Critical Views . Ed. Bloom Harold . New York : Chelsea House , 1986 . 85 - 110 . Lynen John F . The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost . New Haven : Yale UP , 1960 . Marcus Mordecai...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which for some reason (presumably she read the original in English) is called Small House of Uncle Thomas, seems a better expression of aesthetic grace sublimating the resentments of Siamese concubines than of free European-­ style, scientific rationality. In any case...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 241–246.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and redeem attention in an era of big data, targeted attention, and aggressive enlightenment reason. The act of attending, including the paradoxical act of intentional distraction and disintered- ness, is the precondition for any experience of beauty and of the sublime (120). Though Alford brings to bear...