... to imitate his method but who do not possess his other gifts should be warned. Most of us admire rigor, but few have anything to say in favor of rigor mortis. W. M. FROHOCK Harvard University Le Genre dramatique. By ROBERTCHAMPICNY. Monte...

...Alan Liu Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 “SHAPELESS EAGERNESS” THE GENRE OF REVOLUTION IN BOOKS 9-10 OF THE PRELUDE By ALANLIU As the Kevolution books of The Prelude open...

...-Dick from the perspective flagged in the title of her 1999 meganovel Ahab’s Wife; or, The Star-Gazer —one must consider how much such consequences are dampened by factors and motivations prior, ulterior, but not entirely external to what happens inside the genre and to what the rewritings actually...

... in the formation of twentieth-century American modernisms. Her book American Pulp is forthcoming. Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression . By Retman Sonnet . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii + 322 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference...

... completing a book called Theater of a City: Social Change and Generic Innovation on the Early Modern Stage . Shakespeare, Geography, and the Work of Genre on the Early Modern Stage Jean E. Howard Shakespeare set most of his tragedies somewhere other than England. Consider the list. Titus...

...Roger Chartier © 2006 University of Washington 2006 Roger Chartier is directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Genre between Literature and History Roger...

...Yomi Braester The essay examines films produced during the Seventeen Years period (1949–66) and suggests that political campaigns may be akin to film genres. Insofar as generic distinctions of theme and style are produced according to the shifting interests of critics and producers, campaigns have...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad Abstract This essay explores “distant reading,” first, as a project of studying genre at supratextual scales of analysis (from early conceptions to computationalist successors) and, second, through the prescient late Victorian literary persona with which the latter practices...

... for changing it in ways that make it better. But whatever appeal we might find in this possibility, I would welcome greater attention to the broader genre WReC invokes here. Indeed, the value that WReC attaches to collective writing derives too much from the relative scarcity of collective texts within...

... Historicism in the 1980s. And they may be onto something: the significance of description (and, indeed, of redescription) has been underestimated in our discipline. At the same time, however, contemporary arguments from within literary studies on behalf of description are plagued by a persistent genre...

...Alfred Lutz Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Alfred Lutz teaches in the University Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This essay is part of a longer study of Goldsmith's career. “The Deserted Vie”and the Politics of Genre Alfred Lutz...

...Eric Rothstein Hill David. Radcliffe. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xvi + 232 pp. $38.50. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 334 MLQ I September 1994 Forms of &fiction: Genre and Culture in Meditational...

... romanticism and the institutions of cultural transmission. Godwin and the Republican Romance: Genre, Politics, and Contingency in Cultural History Jon Klancher [The] "possible" is, so to speak, a "gentrified," pacified contingency, a contin- gency...

... and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (1994) as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and modern poetry, drama, and fiction. Lowelling and Laureling: Revising Gender and Genre in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day Barbara L. Estrin The man who keeps the Gorgon becomes the Gorgon.-Peter...

...) and Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Litrature (1996). His book on early Tudor literature is forthcoming. The Genre of the Grave and the Origins of the Middle English Lyric Seth Lerer Written along the top margin of a late-twelfth-century...

... of genre theory in the sixteenth century. The Emergence of Poetic Genre Theory in the Sixteenth Century Daniel Javitch This essay proposes that the genre theory-namely, the treatises, commentaries, and debates about ancient as well as some modern poetic genres-that appears in Italy...

... that does cross the genres of poetry and the novel includes Clayton 1987 ; Elfenbein 1995 , 1999 ; Morgan 2009 ; and Riffaterre 1990 . To redress this oversight, I am writing two companion books with Emily Allen, a novel critic. Byron and the Constitution of the British Novel explores Byron’s...

...Kathleen Blake Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain . By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 511 pp. University of Washington 2009 Kathleen Blake is professor of English at the University of Washington...

...Margaret Gilman Aaron Schaffer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Extra Volume XX, 1944. Pp. 427. $4.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 124 Reviews The Genres of Parnassian Poetry: A Study...

...David Quint Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 David Quint is professor of English and comparative literature at Yale University. His forthcoming book is Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy . Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando...