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...-on-november-7th/ . Voltaire . 1991 . Candide: A Critical Edition . 2n d ed. Translated by Adams Robert M. . New York : Norton . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 9/11 genre fiction Kunstlerroman literary influence realism In an essay...

... positive outlook resemble the fandom endemic to late twentieth-century science fiction scholarship, which has so often lionized Wells for his admittedly considerable contributions to genre fiction and sought to legitimize this work and, along with it, the science fiction genre of which he has been named...

... America edition, to the science fictional sub­ genre o f the alternate history— provides a concrete example o f how such recent deployments o f genre fiction depart from high postmodernism’s use o f mass cultural materials. R ather than incorporating genre elements into a nonrealistic...

... relation- ship between literary and popular genres. Hutner notes that already by the late 1920s the most popular books were mysteries. The impressive showing in the 1930s of hard-boiled genre fiction, sensational magazines, radio plays, and Hollywood comedies further suggests that the categories...

...Mark David Kaufman This article uses the genre of speculative historical fiction as a point of entry into Virginia Woolf’s politics. Two spy novels, Ellen Hawkes and Peter Manso’s The Shadow of the Moth (1983) and Stephanie Barron’s The White Garden (2009), present scenarios in which Woolf becomes...

...Annika J. Lindskog This article places Woolf’s Night and Day (1919) in the context of the Edwardian free-union novel—works that represent and debate monogamous relationships without legal recognition. In seeking alternatives to marriage, this genre explored what modernity might mean for young...

... demonstrates, has grown immensely since its inception in 1960s postmodern literary experimentation. Rather than focusing on a single genre as Rosen does, Martin’s monograph examines five different genres: the novel of manners, film noir, the Western, the detective novel, and post-apocalyptic fiction. While...

... attention to texts that blur the boundary between popular genre fiction and “the novel of manners” (179). In reading French’s detective novel about the investigation into a child murder that took place not far from the site where, over thirty years earlier, two children mysteriously disappeared in the woods...

..., drama, politics, and memoir. Her productivity was spurred along partly by financial need, but unlike other highly productive writers—Georgette Heyer, say, or Jameson’s much admired Georges Simenon—she never quite managed to make formulaic genre fiction a forte. Her letters often show a desire to have...

... The Drama of Gender and Genre in Edith Wharton’s Realism might stabilize the term. Wharton is one of these writers. In The Writing of Fiction, a polemic for realism, she informs us that writers of realism represent only “crucial moments,” setting them apart “from the welter of existence” (14...

... how steadily and with what great success the genre of hard-boiled crime fiction has car- ried on the work of nineteenth-century sentimentalism. There has been 575Twentieth-Century Literature 56.4 Winter 2010 575 Deborah Nelson some noteworthy attention to male sentimentality...

... to be done to specify the nature o f the pleasure o f reading, and I’d guess that more work on 403 Ellen Spolsky the heuristic power o f specific genres would be relevant here. Zunshine has used the terms fiction, stories, and novel interchangeably throughout her text, but I...

... is not: “popular fiction is the opposite of Literature.” It cannot therefore be judged by the same criteria. Popular fiction can be defined by its relation to genre and the whole industrial apparatus of production, distribution, and consumption, which Gelder calls “processing.” But given the importance...

... assessment of the “state” of the American novel in the late twentieth century. 268 Review This does not mean, however, that American Fiction in Transition fails to arrive at larger conclusions about the genre’s role in representing the transitions that American fiction underwent during...

... Quarterly Concern’s emo-sincerity, the ethnic bildungsroman’s emphasis on multicultural identity as upward mobility, Jonathan Franzen’s social realism, n+1’s enthusiastic recuperation of “high” cultural critique, novelists such as Michael Chabon’s heartfelt embrace of genre fiction, and the memoir’s...

... words, have gotten the cover of As If just right. They aim to be neither cool nor sleek. They choose much more appro- priately to risk a cheesy nerdiness appropriate to Saler’s subject matter: fantasy. For many, fantasy is irresponsibly escapist, a subgenre of fiction 494Twentieth-Century...

... Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film treats the spy story both as a barometer and a call to conscience, a genre that intervenes in political and historical discourse, transcending its status as mere “entertainment.” But while Buckton’s book takes the form...

... for a massive body of work that consists not just of realist fiction but ranges across a challenging variety of styles and genres. Particularly from the early 1960s through the early 1980s, she exhibited a restlessness about critical notions of literary category and authorial persona, and while more...

... texts about France, has lately turned his attention to light-hearted romantic mysteries. The plotlines and characters of what Carolyn Dever and Mar­ garet Cohen see as the most popular genre of the twentieth century fre­ quently appear in mainstream fiction about France as intertextual...

... 2006 Even more immediately striking is the architecture of the pages and the challenges this poses for the reader. Most pages consist of initially two, later three, parallel sections: essays in political philosophy, letters, a fictional narrative. Thus “Strong Opinions” starts...