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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Lheisa Dustin This article argues that the creative autobiography The Sword Went Out to Sea and other later work of the modernist American writer H.D. evidence foreclosure: a mode of psychic “denegation,” as Jacques Lacan describes it, in which words, thoughts, and people are not differentiated...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 189–210.
Published: 01 March 2003
... as giant humans with weapons that suggest swords and spears: the result is to glue old martial traditions celebrating individual prowess onto modern mech- anized warfare, and the uneasiness of the fit can be exploited if the series choos- es. The translation of old cultural forms into a new...
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Genre (2024) 57 (2): 177–181.
Published: 01 July 2024
... but reflecting the Anglo-Norman period's fondness for mysterious magical words and symbols. Drawing together inscribed objects and the use of historiolae , Hindley even makes the extremely interesting suggestion that the narrative of Noah's Flood on the hilt of the sword Beowulf uses to defeat Grendel's mother...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 271–293.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of Mexico . Guadalajara : Fondo Editorial Universitario , 1997 . Kilmer Joyce . “Kathleen Ni Houlihan.” The Irish Sword . 3 . 12 ( 1958 ), 202 . King Rosemary . “Border Crossing in the Mexican American War.” Bilingual Review 25 ( 2000 ): 63 - 85 . Kendall George...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 443–448.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and historical details that have not received thorough attention and the role of these in her work and poetic influence. Many of those that focus on teach- ing methods are also superb (Helen Sword, Pondrom, Rado, Hirsh, Scanlon) and contain quick but excellent analyses of the works they engage...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 449–451.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and the role of these in her work and poetic influence. Many of those that focus on teach- ing methods are also superb (Helen Sword, Pondrom, Rado, Hirsh, Scanlon) and contain quick but excellent analyses of the works they engage with; for instance, Pondrom’s reading of Helen in Egypt is the best to date...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 December 2017
... it provoked — and the othering impulses behind both forms of violence — favored what Griffin (1994, 1) calls the “old theoretical consensus.” The Pen and the Sword In a short essay published in the New Yorker online a day after the Charlie Hebdo shootings, Philip Gourevitch (2015) wrote...
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Genre (2006) 39 (4): 125–139.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to let'em taste the steel of my samurai sword" (original italics, 118). While Charlie initially appears carrying a gun and sword, his pref- erence for the samurai sword implies his belief that his cultural and historical heritage as meshing seamlessly with modern American warfare. Charlie's refer...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in Gower's Appolonius of Tyre as a crime of the maidenhead: "How that the cursed kyng Antiochus/ Birafte his doghter of his maydenhede" (II, 81- 3). In Gower's own version of the Apius story, the incestuous is yet more oblique signification, because Virginius thrusts his "naked sword" into the side...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 223–237.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Jill . 1990 . Symbol, Story, and Ceremony: Using Metaphor in Individual and Family Therapy . New York : Norton . Czechmeister Catherine A. 1994 . “Metaphor in Illness and Nursing: A Two-Edged Sword. A Discussion of the Use of Metaphor in Everyday Language, and Implications of Nursing...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... with formidable critical credentials) offered a feminist take on sword-and-sorcery in The Adventures of Alyx (1976). Barbadian writer Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo (2010) combines Caribbean and West African folklore into a sophisticated tale about storytelling, personal transformation, and social change...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 April 2013
...,” and a relative of other key political figures in the conflict, Khan offers us a great deal from photographs, e-­mails, and interviews with family members and other notable actors in the long struggle. Her insider status of course is a double-­edged sword—while it provides her with sources that have...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of Kashmir,” and a relative of other key political figures in the conflict, Khan offers us a great deal from photographs, e-­mails, and interviews with family members and other notable actors in the long struggle. Her insider status of course is a double-­edged sword—while it provides her with sources...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 101–124.
Published: 01 March 2001
... as teacher when she tells him he '"must weep for another sword namely, his sins, which he is unable to conceal from her (Purg. XXX 395). Warren adapts Dante's dual guides in A Place to Come To. Stephan Mostoski, Jed's first and only friend, prepares him to be receptive to his female guide, an old...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and her willingness to Sacrifice herself for Thalaba appears to be based on their newly forged friendship which introduced her to a wider world. When Laila dies at the point of her father's sword, she is transformed into a little green bird. This miraculous reincarnation provides an example of God's...
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Genre (2000) 33 (2): 129–149.
Published: 01 June 2000
... leur adresse, Pour le service de nos rois. (188, my emphasis) [How glorious my fate will be If by my ambitious verses I undertake as much for my princess As my ancestors have undertaken in times past By their sword and by their skill In the service...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 61–82.
Published: 01 March 2009
...-out, sickly Spanish empire of which Cereno is the embodiment, his scabbard not even containing a sword. Lowell's most obvious alteration of his source, however, is to expand upon these allu- sions to American empire, tying Melville's story much more clearly to Lowell's historical moment...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 369–381.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., like the sword of Damocles, over any society and can be realized at any stage of the modernization process (it is enough to recall the catastrophic scenario in Nazi Germany as the most radical example, or the strong tilt towards closedness in the USA during the period...
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Genre (2007) 40 (3-4): 171–200.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of making things come together as in a process of musical or verbal composition. So if we have an originating need for reception or penetration, we are subsequently, and by virtue of precisely that sword of penetration of which Simeon (in Christian tradition, Theodochus or "God-Receiver")5 warns...
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 89–120.
Published: 01 March 2002
... narrative of vengeance and violence, they romanticize and also decry it: Professor Wilkins stumbles over the scripted gal- lantry of offering Bayard a pistol and a horse, while Mrs. Wilkins intones, in Bayard's imagination, the refrain '"Dies by the sword. Dies by the sword"' (249). Though...