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Genre matters essays in theory and criticism / edited by Garin Dowd, Lesley Stevenson and Jeremy Strong.
- Title
- Genre matters essays in theory and criticism / edited by Garin Dowd, Lesley Stevenson and Jeremy Strong.
- Publication
- Bristol ; Portland, OR : Intellect Books, 2006.
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- Description
- 178 p.
- Summary
- This collection of essays includes new work on genre theory and applications of thinking about genre from Aristotle to Derrida and beyond. An introductory essay sets the contributions in the context of a wide range of thinking about genre in the arts, media and humanities.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: genre matters in theory and criticism / Garin Dowd -- Genre theory: cultural and historical motives engendering literary genre / Brian G. Caraher -- Objectivity and immanence in genre theory / Paul Cobley -- The genericity of montage: Derrida and genre theory / Jeff Collins -- Ohio Impromptu, genre and Beckett on film / Garin Dowd -- Translating genre / Susan Bassnett -- Tess, Jude and the problem of adapting Hardy / Jeremy Strong -- 'Mixing and matching': the hybridising impulse in today's factual television programming / Richard Kilborn -- 'So what kind of film is it?' genre, publicity and cultural practice / Mike Chopra-Gant -- Three faces of Ruth Rendell: feminism, popular fiction, and the question of genre / Margaret Russett -- The historical novel?: novel, history and the 'End of history' / Martin Ryle.
- ISBN
- 1841501077
- OCLC
- 63798786
- SCSB-11716123
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library