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Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of the Novel . Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1957 . SHATTERED DIALS AND MUTE OBJECTS: THE
SURFACES OF LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET
RACHEL A. BOWSER, EMORY UNIVERSITY
Nineteenth-century sensation fiction, named and notorious for its surfaces,
is more skeptical of those...
Journal Article
Genre (2011) 44 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and think about living organs, or microbes, or pathophysiological processes that we cannot simply watch. Focusing on a range of representations of events beneath surfaces, from Jaws to X-rays to a short story about a white blood cell, this article examines the ways in which metaphor and narrative function...
Journal Article
Genre (2015) 48 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Gretchen Braun On the surface Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula and Mary Cholmondeley's 1899 Red Pottage seem alike only in their fin de siècle publication dates and their popularity with the reading public. Yet Stoker's bloody chronicle of vampire hunting and Cholmondeley's melodramatic domestic tale...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 December 2014
... again becomes “her” — “Whether her eyes
are open or closed she hears only a child” (18). The pronoun shift is only on the
surface a shift in speaker; in reality it is a register of a shift in Liv’s outlook and
self-perception, creating a poetic voice that is paradoxically doubled, both self...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
... depth of character and emotions. Instead it offers us possibilities to connect with the story. As Shiamin Kwa ( 2020b : xxv) writes in Regarding Frames , the surface of graphic narratives is “the space where sense occurs” where meaning and the possibility of emotional connection can be found. Works...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (1): 57–86.
Published: 01 March 2012
... authority of the past in favor of contemporary innovation. In the
teens and twenties Moore’s quotations and references tend to function as collage
assembly, creating a unique, heterogeneous surface texture that pulls bidirection-
ally between poem and world. “Marriage,” for instance, offers what...
Journal Article
Genre (2016) 49 (3): 407–429.
Published: 01 December 2016
....” Even so, Roth’s subversive preference
for the local particularities over events on a “global stage” offers little by way
of portrayal of the relationship between surface reality and social reality — be it
of a local or a global scale. And when Roth ends the short piece (and the walk...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (1): 133–137.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Carl C. Taylor stated that the “ultimate form of the survey exhibit will undoubtedly include the pageant” (46). The ghost of Du Bois surfaces again: his pageants might be worth examining here. Chapter 2 presents photography as a technology that was adapted by social science, particularly...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): i.
Published: 01 March 2008
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Nicole Reynolds 39
Shattered Dials and Mute Objects: The Surfaces
of Lady Audley 's Secret
Rachel A. Bowser 75
The (Im)possible Worlds of Joyce's 'Oxen of the Sun' Episode
in Ulysses
Margot Norris 95
The Paradox of Failure in Modernist American Short Story Cycle...
Journal Article
Genre (2022) 55 (2): 141–159.
Published: 01 July 2022
... , no. 5 : 377 – 89 . These ironies can be traced back to broader tensions between poetry and graffiti as generic categories. On the surface, the two would seem formally dissimilar: poetry is primarily a verbal and aural form based on complexity and ambiguity, whereas graffiti is a verbal...
Journal Article
Genre (2020) 53 (3): 253–258.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., we ought to be reading for. Her discussion of late Augustan ekphrases that adopt a purely externalized viewpoint (88) cried out, to my mind, for a conversation with Heather Love s (2010) influential essay Close but Not Deep. Indeed, for a writer so preoccupied with surfaces, Eisendrath...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of massive (the largest is 171 feet—about the size of a sequoia tree) human, animal, and spirit figures scraped into the desert surface, not unlike the Nazca Lines of Peru. They also appear to have archaeoastronomical features—that is, elements that suggest use as time-space coordinates by way of the sun...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 307–337.
Published: 01 September 2001
... is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
—Oscar Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
In "Dreaming of the Queen," a relatively obscure track from the Pet Shop...
Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (1): 117–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Surface du Globe . Paris : DuFour et d'Ocagne . Dames Nicholas . 2007 . The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Darwin Charles . (1859) 2008 . On the Origin of Species . Oxford : Oxford...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 11–12.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., which I then revised and edited; at this point, the flaws that remain
are very much my own. The difficulty in clearly translating certain terms used
by Brunner needs some explanation, if only because on the surface they would
seem to suggest relatively straightforward equivalents...
Journal Article
Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 251–270.
Published: 01 September 2003
...-shirts and other ephemera, depicting the blue and green
globe suspended in space with a big arrow pointing to an arbitrary point on its
surface. The caption reads, "You are here." The image tropes the location-find-
ing maps familiar from malls, parking lots, and other mass consumer locations...
Journal Article
Genre (2020) 53 (3): 271–277.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of surfaces with decadent interiority. In novels of dandyism, form and character are peculiarly inextricable because the dandy himself is precisely a figure of form, as demonstrated in the dandy s speech, clothing, habits of consumption, and constitutive androgyny (11). The book s later discussion...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 125–147.
Published: 01 March 2001
... the surface, to read between the lines, to listen to the silences separating
words. Emily Dickinson's advice to poets to "tell all the truth but tell it slant" is
one to which an analyst, in considering the subject's representation of the self,
THE BLACK CAT INSIDE...
Journal Article
Genre (2011) 44 (3): 363–380.
Published: 01 September 2011
...
of metaphor is very helpful. The more poetic usages that emphasize the surprise of
metaphor, the way a “vital metaphor” (Black 1979: 21; cf. also Black 1962) can
light up a phenomenon, casting it in a new way, reveal a great deal about how
metaphor operates when it is forced to the surface...
Journal Article
Genre (2008) 41 (3-4): 177–200.
Published: 01 September 2008
... on the National Endowment for the Arts Website . Moulthrop Stuart . “ Rhizome and Resistance .” Hyper/Text/Theory . Ed. Landow George P. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1994 . 299 - 322 . White Glyn : Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presence of the Book in Prose...
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