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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
... triumph over time and space through building emotional connections with absent people and alien circumstances is well known. Associative links powered by memory are our private realizations of the comparative and contrapuntal method of treating facts that Said and Thien advocate. Sympathies that we...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 421–447.
Published: 01 December 2017
... overtly by affectation. This imitative model prefigures the Humean self, in which sympathy is essential to subject formation. By understanding comic practice as fundamentally a practice of depicting the psyche and by insisting on the centrality of affective processes to self making, Congreve shows us what...
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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 109–125.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in this comparison is that, arguably, Bierce’s short story is the least dark of the three versions of what may be called the mood and genre of sardonic death, for it only denounces (especially in terms of free will versus determinism) the doomed man, while Enrico’s film elicits sympathy and Serling’s episode empathy...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 141–159.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and envy over the liberties that the graffitist could take against middle-class sensibilities. Harrison found himself pulled between sympathy for a social world that was once his own and a deeper sense of alienation now that his education and his work as a poet had set him apart from that community...
Journal Article
Genre (2006) 39 (4): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2006
... epistemologies of racial identity that suggest not only a rift
between "observed" and "lived" versions of this experience, but a multiplicity of
meanings within "lived" accounts.
Racial Metaphors of Sympathy
Pearl Chang represents the most clearly marked character in the text where
realist...
Journal Article
Genre (2024) 57 (1): 89–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
... provide a much-needed corrective to prevailing stereotypes of the dour, repressed, and unfeeling New England Puritan, and both take colonial unsettlement as their starting point. Yet Schwartz and Van Engen present quite different perspectives on sentiment's role. For Van Engen, sympathy offers a pathway...
Journal Article
From Slavery to Prison: Benjamin Rush, Harriet Jacobs, and the Ideology of Reformative Incarceration
Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 429–447.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Girl, I will argue, recontextualizes Rushian notions of virtue, reformation,
sympathy, terror, and solitude within a narrative of slavery and forced concubi-
nage in order to demonstrate the ways that Rush's argument for reformative
incarceration unconsciously bolsters the ideological...
Journal Article
Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 433–460.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... The sentimental works in the novel, as I have suggest-
ed through this discussion of the book Iola would write, to fix identity. The sen-
timental, with its emphasis on intuitive sympathy between writers and readers or
characters and readers—with its emphasis on a "heart" that speaks—locates
identity...
Journal Article
Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 181–186.
Published: 01 March 2007
... to
link topics as disparate as the language of simile (figures that liken one thing to
another) and the eighteenth-century preoccupation with sympathy (entry into the
sentiments of others through a perception of resemblance). The representations
whose powers Marshall traces are both visual...
Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (3): 319–342.
Published: 01 December 2017
... as to call him late at night to
protest the outcome of the plot, the story holds that like that of Ibsen’s Oswald,
Tertan’s madness is preordained, and there is nothing that either Howe or the
reader can do about it, regardless of their sympathies. Though he is loath to do
so, Howe must report his...
Journal Article
Genre (2015) 48 (3): 341–381.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Barbara . 1987 . “Love and Sympathy in Virginia Woolf.” In The Collected Essays of Barbara Hardy, vol. 1, Narrators and Novelists , 194 – 207 . Totowa, NJ : Barnes and Noble . Hite Molly . 2010 . “Tonal Cues and Uncertain Values: Affect and Ethics in Mrs. Dalloway.” Narrative 18...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... The classic detective's ability to identify with the mind
of the criminal is accompanied by a clinical detachment that is devoid of any
sympathy or fellow-feeling. Watson's description of Holmes in the first Holmes
short story, "A Scandal in Bohemia," is typical of the almost inhuman detach-
ment...
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (1): 143–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of the writer and reader. He suggests an attitude
of sympathy as the proper tone for a reader to take toward the poem. If impossible
goals render Stein’s “impossible” writing especially vulnerable to failure, they
also, he contends, elicit a fuller range of emotional response.
In making this argument...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 April 2014
... with the music of social integration. Like lateness, timeliness presumes
a heightened awareness of mortality, but rather than asserting the sublime alien-
ation of the sole self and the unembarrassed primacy of the subject, timely style
erases irony in sympathy and apprehends and celebrates the subjectivity...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
...,
television, novels, graphic novels, and video games.
Genre, Vol. 47, No. 3 Fall 2014
DOI 10.1215/00166928-2797225 © 2014 by University of Oklahoma
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him on their radar. He has my sympathy. I can see the disgruntled reviews on
Amazon already: “I...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
... that sympathy for these prized animals humanizes readers and characters and sanctifies the home as a refuge from uncomfortably brutal forms of interspecies violence in the outside world. Because the children of Ellmann's protagonist have long wanted a pet dog (Ellmann 2019a : 63), she finally agrees to adopt...
FIGURES
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 369–372.
Published: 01 September 2004
... to the consideration of
two or three issues that arise in the first few paragraphs of Negri's essay. I should
also make it clear that these remarks are not intended as a critique of the general
tendency of Negri's project, with which I believe I am in sympathy. They are
directed principally toward readers...
Journal Article
Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 395–432.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., Tor-
ture, and Execution of Robert Francis Damien [sic] had been published in London
in 1757, describing for English readers the events in Paris while focusing specifi-
cally upon public outpourings of sympathy for Damiens's victim, Louis XV, and
the general feelings of hostility towards his...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to the exploration and unsettling of some key
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elements of the thriller. Although Lookout Cartridge hardly goes so far in its
resituation of the thriller as to advocate an alternate form of connectedness, such
as the sympathies of the domestic, it does serve...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (3): 327–331.
Published: 01 December 2023
... practices” of surveillance is particularly effective in showing how Douglass represents the limits of white sympathy as antislavery practice. The centerpiece of the chapter is her reading of Pym as detective fiction, showing how Pym's sousveillance while he is a stowaway on the Grampus represents both...
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