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The Ideology of Genre

Author : Thomas O. Beebee
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271042091

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The Ideology of Genre by Thomas O. Beebee Pdf

In a series of comparative essays on a range of texts embracing both high and popular culture from the early modern era to the contemporary period, The Ideology of Genre counters both formalists and advocates of the &"death of genre,&" arguing instead for the inevitability of genre as discursive mediation. At the same time, Beebee demonstrates that genres are inherently unstable because they are produced intertextually, by a system of differences without positive terms. In short, genre is the way texts get used. To deny that genres exist is to deny, in a sense, the possibility of reading; if genres exist, on the other hand, then they exist not as essences but as differences, and thus those places within and between texts where genres &"collide&" reveal the connections between generic status, interpretive strategy, ideology, and the use-value of language.

Film Genre

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850063

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Film Genre by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror, comedy, and the thriller. It introduces the topic in an accessible way and includes sections on the principles of studying and understanding "the idea of genre"; genre and popular culture; the narrative and stylistic conventions of specific genres; the relations of genres to culture and history, race, gender, sexuality, class and national identity; and the complex relations between genre and authorship. Case studies include: 42nd Street, Pennies from Heaven, Red River, All That Heaven Allows, Night of the Living Dead, Die Hard, Little Big Man, Blue Steel, and Posse.

The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre

Author : Richard M. Coe,Lorelei Lingard,Tatiana Teslenko
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English language
ISBN : UCSC:32106017448264

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The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre by Richard M. Coe,Lorelei Lingard,Tatiana Teslenko Pdf

"This book takes up issues of current concern in composition studies, sociolinguistics, and ESL--issues concerning academic literacy, critical literacy, expressive versus cognitive approaches to the teaching of writing, and the like. It does so in a practical, experiential way, drawing on events in classrooms in universities in South Africa and the United States. The contrast between the South African context and the American, as well as their surprising parallels, highlight certain questions concerning the teaching of literacy in a dramatic way, so that theory and practice are brought together. In contrast to writing programs that follow a textbook or a planned sequence of study, the authors describe a narrative pedagogy that encourages students to find a direction and choose activities suggested by their own concerns and ongoing lives."--Publisher.

Genre in a Changing World

Author : Charles Bazerman,Adair Bonini
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781643170015

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Genre in a Changing World by Charles Bazerman,Adair Bonini Pdf

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.

Genre and Ethics

Author : Edward Tomarken
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137675

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Genre and Ethics by Edward Tomarken Pdf

"The study addresses the following kinds of questions: Why does genre need ethics? Why does ethics need genre? How is ethics related to and distinguished from ideology as currently used in cultural studies? How does a generic ethical method come to terms with history and historical change? How is a generic ethical method related to religion? Does genre reinforce the concept of the ethical agent? This book will therefore have a broad audience, including scholars whose fields range from the Renaissance to the present, theorists and philosophers whose interests include ethics, cultural studies, and ideologies, and educationists pursuing methods for graduates and undergraduates. The autobiographical introduction serves as the "hook," as our creative writers say, for this audience. Generically, it is experimental, being at once scholarly, pedagogical, and autobiographical."--BOOK JACKET.

Love and Ideology in the Afternoon

Author : Laura Stempel Mumford
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 025320965X

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Love and Ideology in the Afternoon by Laura Stempel Mumford Pdf

"Why do I like soap operas?" Laura Stempel Mumford asks, and her answer emerges in a feminist analysis of soap opera that participates in current debates about popular culture, television, and ideology. She argues that the conventional daytime soap has an implicit and at times explicit political agenda that cooperates in the "teaching" of male dominance and the related oppressions of racism, classism, and heterosexism--so that they seem inevitable. All My Children, General Hospital, Another World, One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless: a close reading of their texts will also answer some larger questions about television and its place in the broad landscape of popular culture.

Allegory and Ideology

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781788730457

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Allegory and Ideology by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings, rather than an abandonment to liberal pluralisms and tolerant (or intolerant) relativisms. This is not a book about "method", but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third-World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context.

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy

Author : Nick Browne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521559502

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Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy by Nick Browne Pdf

The Godfather trilogy is among the most significant works of Hollywood cinema of the last quarter century. They provide a richly complex look at a whole segment of American life and culture spanning almost the whole century. In six essays, written especially for this volume, The Godfather trilogy is re-examined from a variety of perspectives. Providing analyses on the form and significance of Coppola's achievement, they demonstrate how the filmmaker revised the conventions of the American crime film in the Viet Nam era, his treatment of the capitalism of the criminal underworld and its inherent violence, the power struggles within Hollywood over the film, and the contribution of opera to the epic force and cinematic style of Coppola's vision of an American criminal dynasty. The Godfather articulates the themes, styles, mythologies, performances, and underlying cultural values that have made the film a modern classic.

Phantom Formations

Author : Marc Redfield
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723179

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Phantom Formations by Marc Redfield Pdf

Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.

Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature

Author : Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521464949

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Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt Pdf

Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.

Narrative, Genre and Ideology in Video Games

Author : Bruna Pickler
Publisher : Editora Dialética
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9786525299709

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Narrative, Genre and Ideology in Video Games by Bruna Pickler Pdf

This book sheds light on gender politics and structures of power that can be found in new media, as a single structure that can be found in any game. This book brings to the public an academic dissertation, that was written to grant a Master's Degree to its author. It aims to produce knowledge regarding the modern video game medium by analyzing the narrative pertaining to one such game. To be written, a game was played and replayed to its whole extension, and analyzed throughout. The game is used as a contemporary example of the cultural form. The dissertation focuses on the narrative structure of the text using the theoretical work of Vladimir Propp and the ideas he develops in Morphology of Folktale (1968). This book argues that the morphology identified by Propp as being present in traditional folk narratives can also be found in a contemporary electronic cultural text. It also identifies and discusses issues regarding character development, the relationships between archetypes and categories, the allocation of tasks to the players within the story-as-game, the characteristics of the temporal development of the narrative, the significance and roles of the main characters, and the extent to which gender politics informs the narrative of this contemporary video game. "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ― Roseanne Barr

Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology

Author : Matthew Gelbart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190646929

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Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology by Matthew Gelbart Pdf

European Romanticism gave rise to a powerful discourse equating genres to constrictive rules and forms that great art should transcend; and yet without the categories and intertextual references we hold in our minds, "music" would be meaningless noise. Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology teases out that paradox, charting the workings and legacies of Romantic artistic values such as originality and anti-commercialism in relation to musical genre. Genre's persistent power was amplified by music's inevitably practical social, spatial, and institutional frames. Furthermore, starting in the nineteenth century, all music, even the most anti-commercial, was stamped by its relationship to the marketplace, entrenching associations between genres and target publics (whether based on ideas of nation, gender, class, or more subtle aspects of identity). These newly strengthened correlations made genre, if anything, more potent rather than less, despite Romantic claims. In case studies from across nineteenth-century Europe engaging with canonical music by Bizet, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, and Brahms, alongside representative genres such as opéra-comique and the piano ballade, Matthew Gelbart explores the processes through which composers, performers, critics, and listeners gave sounds, and themselves, a sense of belonging. He examines genre vocabulary and discourse, the force of generic titles, how avant-garde music is absorbed through and into familiar categories, and how interpretation can be bolstered or undercut by genre agreements. Even in a modern world where transcription and sound recording can take any music into an infinite array of new spatial and social situations, we are still locked in the Romantics' ambivalent tussle with genre.

Like a Knife

Author : Andrew F. Jones
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015050027609

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Like a Knife by Andrew F. Jones Pdf

The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics, as well as cultural, sociological, musical, and textual analysis, the book portrays the disparate ways in which China's state-run popular music industry and burgeoning underground rock music subculture represented by Cui Jian have been instrumental to the cultural and political struggles that culminated in the Tienanmen democracy movement of 1989. It also examines the links between popular music and contemporary debates about cultural identity and modernization, as well as the close connections between rock music, youth culture, and student protest.

Colonial Ideology and the classical 'Bildungsroman'

Author : José Santiago Fernández-Vázquez
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788411183604

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Colonial Ideology and the classical 'Bildungsroman' by José Santiago Fernández-Vázquez Pdf

This book examines the ideological affinity that can be established between the classical ‘Bildungsroman’ and colonialist ideology on the basis of a literary analysis of ‘Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre’—considered by most critics to be the origin of the genre—and ‘Great Expectations’—one of the paradigmatic examples of the development of the Bildungsroman in English literature. This ideological affinity is understood as an example of what the Palestinian critic Edward Said has called a ‘structure of attitude and reference’: the convergence of different cultural manifestations that, although formally independent, contribute to a common purpose. The monograph also undertakes a study of the main characteristics of the classical ‘Bildungsroman’ from a formal and thematic point of view, and an analysis of the relationship between genre theories and Eurocentric discourses.

Arabian Nights and Days

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974711

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Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.