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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 239–263.
Published: 01 December 2013
... taxonomies of distorting the inherently indeterminate meanings of texts by imposing arbitrary restrictions, or “laws,” on our reading practices. This essay surveys the major objections to genre criticism lodged by its principal critics (especially Derrida) before introducing and advocating “trope theory...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 343–370.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of these films’ tropes in new Hollywood melodramas where the American family was upheld as a key component of national strength and integrity in combating the threat of Communist infiltration. Following this ideology, women were urged to embrace normative gender roles as wives and mothers in a system...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Lynch's unique position within the history of film noir as a genre. Vico's poetic developmental scheme, which relies on the “four master tropes” (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony), is adapted to the historical evolution of film noir as a genre. The essay then translates Vico's ricorso...
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Genre (2024) 57 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to the book's enduring afterlife as a melodrama itself. The essay argues that Dickens utilizes consumers’ preconceived understandings of popular theatrical tropes to guide their expectations when reading Twist . Moreover, by tweaking recognizable melodrama tropes—altering genders, multiplying villainies—Dickens...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 301–313.
Published: 01 September 2011
... narratives are enriched by color, nuance, and detail from metaphorical tropes. However, the comprehension of such metaphors by the clinician requires an ability to listen, a penchant to decipher idiosyncratic understanding, and a capacity to honor the patient's particularity. © 2011 by University...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of departure for a tale of historical and epistemological transformation. Following this idea, the article shows how the use of visual tropes to create meaning and definition (in a word, to name) is inherent to the narration of the epistemic rupture, and more specifically, it analyzes how this epistemic change...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 171–197.
Published: 01 July 2014
... articulates a biopolitical poetics defying the conceptual oppositions between collective and individual, public and private, socialist and liberal. I contend that, with its combination of tropes from the genres of science fiction, utopia, and the western, The Place of Dead Roads functions as a pedagogy...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in terms of the long poem) in addition to traditional tropes that co-opt gestation as a synonym for (typically masculine) literary production. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited Ashton Jennifer . 2007 . “Our Bodies, Our Poems.” American Literary History 19 , no. 1...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
... that embraces the formal implications of the genre's tropes: notably the zombie figure itself, the barricade, and what this article calls soft and hard breaches . The zombie is a deconstructive and contagious anticharacter whose destabilizing role necessitates the construction of barricades that (1) protect...
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Genre (2019) 52 (1): 51–75.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeff Westover In The Folding Cliffs , a narrative poem with a novelistic scope, W. S. Merwin reflects on poetic thinking by availing himself of the tools of narrative. He not only depicts historic injustice against indigenous Hawaiians but also tropes the form of his storytelling to assess...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 207–228.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the Anthropocene. Only Lovers was often dismissed by critics as easy on substantial ideas and heavy on seductive sheen, and yet the film deftly deploys the vampire trope to explore enduring attachments, as well as endangered and endangering ways of life. Set in Detroit and Tangier, Jarmusch’s film tracks...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 145–178.
Published: 01 July 2023
... gothic tropes but imbricated with cultural and scientific modernization. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas , a novel that straddles generic and national literature categories, typifies the sensation era's uneasy awareness of not only similarity but interdependence across boundaries. While eschewing...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
... “The Damned Thing” ( 1893 ), two short stories that feature the same kind of supernatural phenomenon (a material ghost), the essay argues that apophasis can be used as a key to understand not only the rhetorical fabric of the fantastic genre but also its tropes and themes and its larger epistemological...
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Genre (2006) 39 (4): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2006
... genealogy, which, although
somewhat subtly, puts pressure on his otherwise cogent articulation of American
literary realism and larger vision of American reality.
I attempt to map out a key literary trope as it develops from his non-fiction
writing into his later fiction, beginning with his St...
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Genre (2000) 33 (3-4): 241–245.
Published: 01 September 2000
... contribu-
tions for this rather whimsical special issue of Genre. Little did I know how much
use and abuse the desert island trope would undergo during the following year:
the film Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks, paid straight-faced homage to it as a
genre of narrative, while the first avatar...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 247–252.
Published: 01 December 2020
... from historically interactive poetic tropes (9). Thus, in chapter 3 Vizenor s pictographic transla- tions maintain the amphiboly of their ethnographic source materials, sustaining grammatical ambiguity as fertile grounds for adaptive Indigenous sovereignty claims. Although this material is indelibly...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Property . New York : Random House , 1983 . Jarrett Michael . `` Four Choruses on the Tropes of Jazz Writing .'' American Literary History 6.2 ( Summer 1994 ): 336 - 53 . Jimoh A. Yemisi . Spiritual, Blues and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox...
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Genre (2006) 39 (4): 145–147.
Published: 01 December 2006
... American representation that is not lim-
ited by an essentialized set of questions around accuracy and authenticity, but,
instead, highlights a repertoire of related and repeated tropes.
The elaboration of coherent, yet ever changing, manifestations of Asiatic
racial form structures the book...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 257–280.
Published: 01 September 2005
...-MADISON
Irony figures as a trope of rebellion when a well-intentioned, liberal American
stumbles upon the dark underside of global traffic. The American's name is
Amasa Delano, the setting the waters near a small island off the coast of Chile,
the year 1799 when the transoceanic commerce...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 233–256.
Published: 01 July 2023
... simultaneously activates and disorganizes the generic codes that make it and its characters legible, only to conclude by reaffirming normative tropes of the embodied human and the romantic couple. The end of Theodore's relationship with Samantha is ultimately coterminous with the departure of all OS beings...
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