Ideology of Genre A Comparative Study of Generic Instability

Name: Ideology of Genre A Comparative Study of Generic Instability
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ISBN: 9780271010236

ISBN-10: 0271010231

ISBN-13: 9780271010236

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Authors: Thomas O. Beebee

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In a series of comparative essays on a range of texts embracing both high and popular culture from the early modern era to the contemporary period, The Ideology of Genre counters both formalists and advocates of the "death of genre," arguing instead for the inevitability of genre as discursive mediation. At the same time, Beebee demonstrates that genres are inherently unstable because they are produced intertextually, by a system of differences without positive terms. In short, genre is the way texts get used. To deny that genres exist is to deny, in a sense, the possibility of reading; if genres exist, on the other hand, then they exist not as essences but as differences, and thus those…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: Why Genre?



The Genres of Ethnography: Oroonoko in the Tristes Tropiques



Writing Lessons: Representation Versus Rhetoric in the Ars Dictaminis



The Birth of the Prose Poem from the Spirit of Japanery



What Is Legal Discourse Made Of?



Dylan, Degenhardt, and Dissonance



Hollerer's Echo: Ecco Hollerer!



Theoretical Postlude: The Ideology of Genre


Bibliography of Genre Theory and Criticism


Index