Genre matters : essays in theory and criticism / edited by Garin Dowd, Lesley Stevenson and Jeremy Strong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowd, Garin.

Stevenson, Lesley.

Strong, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary form.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Portland, OR : Intellect Books, 2006.

Intellect [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities. It demonstrates that genre matters in a manner not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and includes new work on Genre Theory and applications of thinking about genre. Essays focus on topics such as genre as media form.

Contents:

Front Cover

Contents

Preface

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 Critical 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

Contributors' Details

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610476886

9781280476884

1280476885

9781841509303

1841509302

9781841501079

1841501077

OCLC:

62534396