Full Description
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.
Contents
PART I: RE-ASSESSING THEORETICAL TRADITIONS: FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO BAKHTIN
1. Philosophy ' 's Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry from Plato to Badiou; Garin Dowd
2. Remembering to Forget: the Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin ' 's Treatment of Language; Michael Volek
PART II: MEMORY, TESTIMONY, POLITICS
3. The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano ' 's Dora Bruder (1997); Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert
4. Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich ' 's and Eduard Erne ' 's Totschweigen (1994) and Elfriede Jelinek ' 's Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) (2008); Katya Krylova
PART III: REVISITING LITERARY GENRES: WRITING BACK/WRITING FORWARD
5. The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity; Sarah Parker
6. How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic; Timothy S. Murphy
PART IV: VISUAL CULTURES: TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS AND GENRES
7. Seduced by Art: the Problem of Photography; Lesley Stevenson
8. Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone; Peter Buse
PART V: FILM GENRES: ENDURANCE AND TRANSFORMATION
9. The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture; Michael Stewart
10. Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film with Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring; Erin K. Stapleton
PART VI: PEDAGOGIES: APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION
11. Student and Teacher Constructions of the ' 'Generic Contract ' ' in High School Essays; Anne Smedegaard
12. Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom; Natasha Artemeva and Donald N. Myles
