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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 79–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Kelly Swartz [email protected] Abigail Zitin , Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics , New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 Form captivates us. Its varieties can...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 381–391.
Published: 01 September 2011
... maladapted to modern society. The texts that employ this mismatch theory to explain phobias and depression contain an unstable mixture of narrative techniques and metaphoric uses of computers, electronic technology, the discourse of economics, of architecture, among others. A frequent technique is to make...
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Genre (2018) 51 (3): 209–236.
Published: 01 December 2018
... the conventionality of certain literary techniques in modern realism. This account of the relation between realism and skepticism establishes grounds for further comparison with the seemingly antithetical generic tradition of tragedy. As a means of identifying previously unrecognized affinities between ancient...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lee Clark Mitchell Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men (2005), like Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's film adaptation (2007), poses two genres against one another, drawing on film noir techniques to defy what their Western materials seem to solicit. Fleeting gestures at wide-open landscape...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 299–327.
Published: 01 June 2012
... “Satiric Nationalism” and “Satiric Exile” to explicate Mansfield's technique in “Germans at Meat,” showing that her purpose was to attack British as well as German nationalism from a colonialist stance of marginality and exile. After analyzing “The Swing of the Pendulum” as a transitional tale...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 343–370.
Published: 01 December 2017
... a strong critique of the aggressive Cold War domestic imperative. By doing so he anticipated the direction some Hollywood family melodramas would take in the 1950s, particularly the films of the director Douglas Sirk that similarly employed autocritical techniques to undermine Cold War domestic norms...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Valentina Montero Román This essay argues that Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) experiments with literary techniques often associated with the “big, ambitious novel” to represent the pervasive problems created by US racial construction. More specifically, it contends that Luiselli's...
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Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... literal immersion, which requires the engrossment of a reader or viewer in the world of the story, and immersion as a formal technique, which is for the most part indifferent to the actual engagement of the audience and instead produces a claim immanent to the work itself. Paranoia alone, however...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 April 2015
... share a common interest in horror as an affective state and an aesthetic technique. This essay argues that by grafting the affect and imagery of horror onto domestic scenes, Red Pottage , like Dracula , envisions a British society assaulted by a corrupting force that saps its vitality and health...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Brian Attebery Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy‐Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re‐visioning. Such re‐visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique...
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Genre (2024) 57 (2): 169–175.
Published: 01 July 2024
... a text—and the thoughts that he develops out of that experience. Jonathan Kramnick's Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies homes in on conventions of literary critical writing to capture the fluency and virtuosity with which literary critics deploy such techniques as in-sentence quotation...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The inclusiveness of the sheets of sound technique, then,
manifests an ethos that would remain with Coltrane to the end, though mani-
fested differently elsewhere in his career. And so, again, the argument resolves in
paradox, since nobody so succinctly elaborates Coltrane's proliferation than
Miles Davis...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2003
... . Monet & Japan . Canberra : Natl. Gallery of Australia , 2001 . Casey Edward S. Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2002 . Collins Daniel L. “Anamorphosis and the Eccentric Observer: History, Technique and Current Practice...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 183–188.
Published: 01 July 2020
... who weren t there. Experimentalists like Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke availed themselves of liter- ary techniques to portray scientific practice as legitimate and reliable and to build an epistemic community, a shared sense of knowing among colleagues. Chico describes how Royal Society natural...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2004
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Nisenson, for example, subtitled his polemic on this issue "the murder of jazz."9
6The term "neo-classical" originally referred to a diffuse movement in twentieth-century concert
music to revive the techniques and aesthetics of earlier European music, beginning with eighteenth-
century music...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Representation; or, The Viewing of Las Meninas.” Representations 1 : 31 – 42 . Anfam David , ed. 1987 . Techniques of the Great Masters of Art . London : New Burlington . Cantichi Philippe-Jean . 2001 . “Le premier rêve de Big Brother.” Le Monde des Livres 19 . 4 : 10...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 383–404.
Published: 01 September 2003
... The overcoming of logistical hurdles and the unique
means of removing debris were celebrated by the developing corporations as
"documentation" of the success of what were described as "unusual" and "spec-
tacular" building techniques.
The redevelopment of Potsdamer Platz was the biggest single...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 271–277.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., tracing Burroughs s techniques back to fin de siècle fiction s fascination with vivisection as a meta- phor for decadent introspection, literalized in the bestial cut- ups of H. G. Wells s Dr. Moreau (113 14). Gutkin situates his arguments within a larger discussion of the role degeneration theory plays...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 December 2014
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incoherent identity, and her susceptibility to influence from the everyday stimuli
that bombard the modern subject. Modernist narrative techniques were of course
developed to address just these concerns, meaning that a birth control thematic
leads easily and logically to a modernist aesthetic...
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Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 145–178.
Published: 01 March 2005
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later refers to as the tasks of "translation" and "redress." In brief, both concepts
refer to the repertoire of textual techniques through which a writer can expose,
critique, and possibly refashion his society's entrenched representations of
knowledge and power. The shared purposes of translation...
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