Genre Trajectories [electronic resource] : Identifying, Mapping, Projecting /
Dowd, Garin.editor.
Rulyova, Natalia.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Reassessing Theoretical Traditions: From Ancient Greece to Bakhtin""; ""1 Philosophy?s Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry and the Poem from Plato to Badiou""; ""2 Remembering to Forget: The Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin?s Treatment of Language""; ""Part II: Memory, Testimony, Politics""; ""3 The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano?s Dora Bruder""
""4 Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich?s and Eduard Erne?s Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek?s Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)""""Part III: Revisiting Literary Genres: WritingBack/Writing Forward""; ""5 The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity""; ""6 How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic""; ""Part IV: Visual Cultures: Technologies, Institutions and Genres""; ""7 Seduced by Art: The Problem of Photography""; ""8 Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone""; ""Part V: Film Genres: Endurance and Transformation""
""9 The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture""""10 Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film without Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring""; ""Part VI: Pedagogies: Applications in Education""; ""11 Constructing a Voice of Authority in Upper Secondary School Essays""; ""12 Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Culture-Study and teaching.
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Social sciences.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
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