Prospects Of Power [electronic resource] : Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre / John Snyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, John, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essay.

Satire.

Tragedy.

Criticism.

Literary form.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Genre -- the articulation of ""kind"" -- is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable, let alone viable. By combining theory with dialectical literary histories of three significantly different genres -- tragedy, satire, and the essay -- John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power.One purpose of this approach is to reconcile the recent dismantling of representational and classificatory ge

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Contemporary Genre Theory; 2. Tragedies; Persians: Tragedy of Battle Victory; Eumenides: Tragedy of State Victory; Philoctetes: Tragedy of Stalemate; Medea: Tragedy of Winner-Lose-All; 3. Tragic Genre; 4. Satires; Juvenal: Satire to Tragedy; Petronius: Satire to Novel; Don Quixote: Satire to Fantasy to Romance to Novel; Butler: Conservative Satire to Mock Epic; Twain: Liberal Burlesque to Novel; Hasek: Menippean Satire to Anarchism; 5. Satiric Semigenre; 6. On and of the Essay as Nongenre; Retreat: Cicero and Montaigne

Lover of Fortuna and Enemy: Machiavelli and Bacon""Retraite absolue"": Rousseau; Aggression and Experimentalism: Emerson and Nietzsche; 7. Toward a Dialectical Theory of Genre; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-223) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-5688-2

OCLC:

555678310