This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on genre and identifies developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. Genre approaches are applied to examine a fascinating range of texts including ancient Greek poems, Holocaust visual and literary texts, contemporary Hollywood films, selfies, melodrama, and classroom practices.
قائمة المحتويات
PART I: RE-ASSESSING THEORETICAL TRADITIONS: FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO BAKHTIN
1. Philosophy ‘ ‘s Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry from Plato to Badiou; Garin Dowd
2. Remembering to Forget: the Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin ‘ ‘s Treatment of Language; Michael Volek
PART II: MEMORY, TESTIMONY, POLITICS
3. The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano ‘ ‘s Dora Bruder (1997); Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert
4. Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich ‘ ‘s and Eduard Erne ‘ ‘s Totschweigen (1994) and Elfriede Jelinek ‘ ‘s Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) (2008); Katya Krylova
PART III: REVISITING LITERARY GENRES: WRITING BACK/WRITING FORWARD
5. The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity; Sarah Parker
6. How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic; Timothy S. Murphy
PART IV: VISUAL CULTURES: TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS AND GENRES
7. Seduced by Art: the Problem of Photography; Lesley Stevenson
8. Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone; Peter Buse
PART V: FILM GENRES: ENDURANCE AND TRANSFORMATION
9. The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture; Michael Stewart
10. Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film with Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring; Erin K. Stapleton
PART VI: PEDAGOGIES: APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION
11. Student and Teacher Constructions of the ‘ ‘Generic Contract ‘ ‘ in High School Essays; Anne Smedegaard
12. Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom; Natasha Artemeva and Donald N. Myles
عن المؤلف
Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University, Canada Peter Buse, Kingston University, London, UK Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert, University of Birmingham, UK Katya Krylova, University of Nottingham, UK Donald N. Myles, Carleton University, Canada Timothy S. Murphy, Oklahoma State University, USA Sarah Parker, University of Stirling, UK Anne Smedegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Erin K. Stapleton, University of Melbourne, Australia Lesley Stevenson, Independent Scholar Michael Stewart, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK Michael Volek, Athabasca University, Canada
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