Title: Genre fission
Description: What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek characters have in common? In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new. -- from back cover.
Subjects: History and criticism, Postmodernism, Literary form, Postmodernism (Literature), Philosophy, United States, Culture, Civilization, Literary Discourse analysis, American fiction, Theory
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, Theory, etc