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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: genre matters in theory and criticism / Garin Dowd -- Genre theory: cultural and historical motives engendering literary genre / Brian G. Caraher -- Objectivity and immanence in genre theory / Paul Cobley -- The genericity of montage: Derrida and genre theory / Jeff Collins -- Ohio Impromptu, genre and Beckett on film / Garin Dowd -- Translating genre / Susan Bassnett -- Tess, Jude and the problem of adapting Hardy / Jeremy Strong -- 'Mixing and matching': the hybridising impulse in today's factual television programming / Richard Kilborn -- 'So what kind of film is it?' genre, publicity and cultural practice / Mike Chopra-Gant -- Three faces of Ruth Rendell: feminism, popular fiction, and the question of genre / Margaret Russett -- The historical novel?: novel, history and the 'End of history' / Martin Ryle |
| Summary |
This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities. It demonstrates that genre matters in a manner not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and includes new work on Genre Theory and applications of thinking about genre from Aristotle to Derrida and beyond. The essays focus on economies of expectation and competency, genre as media form, recent developments in television broadcast genres, translation and genericity, the role played by genre in film publicity, gender and genre, genre in fiction, and the problematics of classification. An introductory essay places the contributions in the context of a wide range of thinking about genre in the arts, media and humanities. The volume will be of interest to both undergraduates and postgraduates, especially those following courses on Genre Theory and Genre Criticism, and to academics working in a range of subject areas such as Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Media Studies and Literary Studies |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Fiction genres.
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Film genres.
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Literary form.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Fiction genres
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Film genres
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Literary form
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Literaturgattung
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Gattungstheorie
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Kultur
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Gattung
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Gattungstheorie.
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Filmgattung.
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Fiction
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Strong, Jeremy
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Stevenson, Lesley
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| ISBN |
1841509302 |
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9781841509303 |
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9781841501079 |
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1841501077 |
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1280476885 |
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9781280476884 |
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