The Boundaries Of Genre

Author : Gary Saul Morson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810108119

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The Boundaries of Genre by Gary Saul Morson Pdf

Using Dostoevsky's most radical experiment in literary form as a springboard, Gary Saul Morson examines a number of key topics in contemporary literary theory, including the nature of literary genres and their relation to interpretation. He convincingly argues that genre is not a property of texts alone but arises from the interaction between texts and readers. Observing that changing conventions of interpretation and classifciation may alter the perception of particular works, Morson considers a number of problematic texts that have been read according to two contradictory sets of conventions - "boundary works"--And a futher group of texts - "threshold works" such as Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer - that were evidently designed by their authors to exploit this kind of hermeneutic ambivalence. Morson explores the nature of the literary utopia and its parodic form, the anti-utopia, and, returning to Dostoevsky's Diary as his example, a third form which exists as a sort of open dialogue of utopia and anti-utopia

Author : Jeffrey Kallberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674127919

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Chopin at the Boundaries by Jeffrey Kallberg Pdf

The complex cultural status of Chopin--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this book situates Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.

Author : B. J. Hollars
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496210128

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Blurring the Boundaries by B. J. Hollars Pdf

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring the limits of the form. This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers--including original work from Michael Martone, Marcia Aldrich, Dinty W. Moore, Lia Purpura, and Robin Hemley, among others. These essays experiment with structure, style, and subject matter, and each is accompanied by the writer's personal reflection on the work itself, illuminating his or her struggles along the way. As these innovative writers stretch the limits of genre, they take us with them, offering readers a front-row seat to an ever-evolving form. Readers also receive a practical approach to craft thanks to the unique writing exercises provided by the writers themselves. Part groundbreaking nonfiction collection, part writing reference, Blurring the Boundaries serves as the ideal book for literary lovers and practitioners of the craft.

Author : Mark Ledbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042870355

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Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre by Mark Ledbury Pdf

This volume reinterprets the work of the dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine and the artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, in the context of their innovative engagement with discourses of genre in eighteenth-century France, and in the light of new archival evidence. It reveals the complexity and audacity of both men's work, and restablishes the less well-known as a figure of major importance.

Author : Henry Cloud,John Sims Townsend
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780310585909

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Boundaries by Henry Cloud,John Sims Townsend Pdf

When to say yes, when to say no to take control of your life.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106011075105

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A Writer's Diary Volume 1 by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Winner of the AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared in the Diary itself.

Author : John A. McCarthy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512805468

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Crossing Boundaries by John A. McCarthy Pdf

Crossing Boundaries focuses on the intellectual and social factors that led to the emergence and first flowering of the German essay. John McCarthy challenges traditional ways of thinking about literature by concentrating on the impact of Enlightenment philosophy, rhetoric, genre theory, and literary life on the evolution of essayistic writing in German. Taking issue with the commonly held view that the German essay did not evolve until after 1750—and then only under the influence of French and British models—McCarthy argues that Enlightenment skepticism and the social ideas of the galant homme spawned an early native form. Varieties of that form, a kind of writing the author terms "essayism," were pervasive, extending into a variety of genres in the hands of writers such as Leibniz, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, and Schlegel. He combines in-­depth analyses of representative essays with unique adaptations of recent developments in literary theory, intellectual history, literary history, and social history. McCarthy's argument is centrally concerned with the critical reexamination of the categories of knowledge and of the means of disseminating information that characterized eighteenth-century thought. The essay, an experimental form that crosses boundaries of discipline and genre, is derived from this new emphasis and is the clearest reflection of the dialectic interplay among thinking, writing, and reading. It is also, as such, the genre or mode most closely related to Enlightenment philosophy itself.

Author : Donald Haase
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814330304

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Fairy Tales and Feminism by Donald Haase Pdf

Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1527564061

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Contemporary Crime Fiction by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

This unique and timely book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing innovative and fresh perspectives to the analysis of this most popular and vibrant literary genre. Investigating contemporary crime fiction and the critical debates surrounding its reception and production, the introductory chapter sets the scene for the chaptersâ (TM) analyses of distinct crime fiction topics, themes and authors. These topics include the experimental detective narrative, race and ethnicity, historical crime fiction, domestic noir, feminism and crime, environmental crime, and the poetics of place. Authors examined here range from Ian Rankin, Gillian Flynn, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Robert Galbraith, Nancy Bilyeau, and Martha Grimes, to Tana French, Dale Furutani and J.G. Ballard, to name but a few. Informed by the latest critical debates and theoretical perspectives in the field, this volume presents an invaluable source of information and criticism on crime fiction for students, researchers and academics alike.

Author : Lily K. Hoang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSD:31822040857062

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A Bestiary by Lily K. Hoang Pdf

A compilation of essays on the author's observations of life described by Wayne Koestenbaum as "a work of great subtlety, precision, intelligence, daring, and emotive keenness" -- Page [4] cover.

Author : Osvaldo Padilla
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830899807

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The Acts of the Apostles by Osvaldo Padilla Pdf

The book of Acts is a remarkable fusion of the historical and theological, and its account of the early church has fascinated theologians and biblical scholars for centuries. Just who was the author of this work? And what kind of book did he write? How do we classify its genre? The Acts of the Apostles provides an advanced introduction to the study of Acts, covering important questions about authorship, genre, history and theology. Osvaldo Padilla explores fresh avenues of understanding by examining the text in light of the most recent research on the book of Acts itself, philosophical hermeneutics, genre theory and historiography. In addition, Padilla opens a conversation between the text of Acts and postliberal theology, seeking a fully-orbed engagement with Acts that is equally attuned to questions of interpretation, history and theology.

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815303041

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Central European Folk Music by Philip V. Bohlman Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Nancy Calvert-Koyzis,Heather Weir
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567595034

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Breaking Boundaries by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis,Heather Weir Pdf

Women throughout the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them.

Author : Amy J Devitt
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809328697

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Writing Genres by Amy J Devitt Pdf

In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this volume the most comprehensive view of genre theory today. Writing Genres does not limit itself to literary genres or to ideas of genres as formal conventions but additionally provides a theoretical definition of genre as rhetorical, dynamic, and flexible, which allows scholars to examine the role of genres in academic, professional, and social communities. Writing Genres demonstrates how genres function within their communities rhetorically and socially, how they develop out of their contexts historically, how genres relate to other types of norms and standards in language, and how genres nonetheless enable creativity. Devitt also advocates a critical genre pedagogy based on these ideas and provides a rationale for first-year writing classes grounded in teaching antecedent genres.

Author : María-Cruz Negreira-Rey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031439261

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Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media by María-Cruz Negreira-Rey Pdf