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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and the responsibility that comes with it. This innovative tactic helps chart a potential course for autofiction by women writers and writers of color. 5. I refer of course to Roland Barthes's seminal essay “The Death of the Author” ([1967] 1977 ) which argues that once a text is written, its author is not relevant...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 329–346.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood .'' The Faith of a (Woman) Writer . Eds. Kessler-Harris Alice McBrien William . New York : Greenwood , 1985 . 293 - 301 . Gagnier Regina . `` Feminist Autobiography in the 1980s '' In Feminist Studies 17.1 ( Spring...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 495–509.
Published: 01 September 2002
... American Center Prize Anthology (Arcade, 1999; paperback, 2000). WRITERS WITH CONVICTIONS: DOING TIME AT
CENTURY'S END1
BELL GALE CHEVIGNY, PURCHASE COLLEGE, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW
YORK
"Write a poem that makes no sense" —Hettie Jones2
Marlene squatted...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 231–253.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Steven Ruszczycky In “The Law of Pornography: John Rechy and Samuel Steward” I compare the works of two late twentieth-century writers to show how they turned to genre to understand sexuality's relation to the law in other than purely repressive terms. I suggest that they complicate Michel...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 239–268.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Anne Brubaker This essay explores the recurring portrait of the bookkeeping woman in the fiction of writers such as Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Frances E. W. Harper, Sinclair Lewis, and Elmer Rice. It explores how the discourse of mathematics offers...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 359–383.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of memoirs by modernist writers is between the celebrated or elevated subject matter and the ordinary or everyday approaches of the modernist aesthetic. In some memoirs, particularly those authored by celebrity modernists themselves, including Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, and Wyndham Lewis, the high-art...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Lucas Hollister This article examines how the preeminent leftist crime writer of 1970s France, Jean-Patrick Manchette, engaged with the Delonian archetype of criminal masculinity. By drawing out hitherto overlooked ways Manchette’s last novel, The Prone Gunman ( La position du tireur couché...
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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 127–149.
Published: 01 July 2019
... writer Vernon Lee, who elevates reference as a vital principle of all literary representation, this essay argues that the roman à clef challenges our assumptions about the value of reference. Lee’s novel Miss Brown (1884), a roman à clef about British aestheticism, is treated as a privileged case study...
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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 85–108.
Published: 01 July 2019
... on their way to better employment elsewhere. Providing readings of novels by well-known writers of academic fiction such as James Hynes and Alex Kudera alongside lesser known authors such as Geoff Cebula, Gordon Haber, J. Hayes Hurley, and Julia Keefer, the essay ultimately argues that the adjunctroman reveals...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 135–157.
Published: 01 July 2020
... turn in international fiction writing—involving writers such as W. G. Sebald, Valeria Luiselli, and Teju Cole—which some critics have interpreted as a sign of the novel’s exhaustion. This essay argues instead that such genre-bending works of contemporary fiction (and even nonfiction) are better...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Bradley J. Fest In the twenty‐first century, digital technologies have made it possible for writers and artists to create massively unreadable works through computational and collaborative composition, what the author has elsewhere called megatexts . The ubiquity of texts appearing across media...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
... readerly immersion, yet its fictional storyworld may not feel universally plausible. Sharing its writer's experience of teaching Thien in Hong Kong, the article suggests that a critique of the novel's Western, nearly Orientalist standpoint with respect to sensitive issues of recent Chinese history does...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of their composition supply concrete, if playful, models of phenomena also at work in the macrocosm of genre fiction. Thus, collaborative writing emerges as a form of genre laboratory, ideally suited to the small-scale imitation and exploration of superordinate generic processes. Both the writers’ reflections...
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Genre (2011) 44 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
... to the subjective stream of consciousness, Richardson brings music and voice to the forefront of her narrative to subvert the dominance of vision and language, which she associates with masculinity. Ultimately, Miriam Henderson's pilgrimage to become a writer is fulfilled with her discovery of an “inner eye...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 March 2012
... between Clark and the poet and art critic Frank O'Hara—whom Clark cites prominently in Farewell —on the subject of what they call “vulgarity,” which both writers see as a signal quality of late-modern lyric. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 Works Cited Altieri Charles . 2000 . “Can...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 181–204.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Heather Smyth This article explores how the Belizean writer Zee Edgell's novel Beka Lamb uses the bildungsroman to point to contradictions in both colonial discourse and narratives of nationalist decolonization. The bildungsroman is a genre that provokes unsettling and valuable insights when found...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 27–50.
Published: 01 April 2016
... as the primary constituents of narrative and undermines the ostensible authority of the “narrator” in service of representing focalizers' internal experiences. Her experiments with spatiality and focalization are less overtly radical than those of high modernist or avant-garde fiction writers. Instead, her...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 135–158.
Published: 01 July 2016
... places Walpole in a tradition of cosmic horror that also includes Clara Reeve, William Godwin, and Walter Scott. Yet the relationship between Lovecraft's fiction and these earlier writers of historical fiction has been more assumed than explored. Aware of history as a malleable and potentially...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Manuel Betancourt Given the Argentine writer Manuel Puig's penchant for using and skewering studio Hollywood films and stars in novels such as Betrayed by Rita Hayworth , he has often been understood as partaking in the discourse of camp. This article takes as a jump-off point the contention...
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