Genre

John Frow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2014 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-02058-0 (ISBN)

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This second edition of John Frow’s Genre offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the area. Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture, but it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in music and images, in film and television, genres actively generate and shape our knowledge of the world. Understanding genre as a dynamic process rather than a set of stable rules, this book explores:

the relation of simple to complex genres
the history of literary genre in theory
the generic organisation of implied meanings
the structuring of interpretation by genre
the uses of genre in teaching

John Frow’s lucid exploration of this fascinating concept has become essential reading for students of literary and cultural studies, and the second edition expands on the original to take account of recent debates in genre theory and the emergence of digital genres.

John Frow is Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Introduction 1 Approaching genre Preliminary questions The situation of genre The performance of genre Classes and members 2 Simple and complex genres Simple forms: the riddle Generic complexity Citation and intertextuality 3 Literary genre theory Genre as taxonomy Presentational modes: Plato and Aristotle The natural forms Genres and modes Poetics and history 4 Implication and relevance The structural dimensions of genre Implication and presupposition Genre as schema Generic truths: Philosophy Generic truths: History 5 Genre and interpretation Reading genre The frame Generic cues Figures of genre 6 System and history Genre systems Synchrony and diachrony Genrification Emergent Genres Teaching genre

Reihe/Serie	The New Critical Idiom
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-02058-3 / 1138020583
ISBN-13	978-1-138-02058-0 / 9781138020580
Zustand	Neuware