Search Results for genre theory

...). 1992 Acts of Literature ,edited by Derek Attridge (New York: Routledge). Fowler, Alastair 1982 Kinds of Literature:An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes (Cambridge:Harvard University Press). 1989 “The Future of Genre Theory,” in The Future of Literary Theory , edited by Ralph...

... approaches to categorization via prototype, exemplar, and knowledge theories. Against this background, I review the many genres that have been attributed to Gravity's Rainbow , then examine three influential generic framings of this text and what the text can tell us about the nature of categories and how...

...Katra Byram Abstract The current reckoning with systemic bias and discrimination calls for centering historical and social context in narrative theory, as in other domains of academic and public life. This article undertakes that centering in rhetorical narrative theory. Informed by genre theory...

... Lakoff 's theory of the multiple levels of framing in discourse, concentrating on the interplay of argument and narrative frames. Studies of emotion and mood in narrative genres are adapted to refine Lakoff's account of narrative, making it more complex, systematic, and sensitive to historical context...

...James Phelan This essay constructs a dialogue between Catherine Gallagher’s influential historical and theoretical account of the nexus among fictionality, readerly disposition, and character in the new genre of the novel and rhetorical theory’s alternative account of that nexus. In reading...

... and vatic sayings that pretend to universal or transcendent knowledge are marks of the lyric as a genre. Sketching a theory of poetic license, this article addresses the lyrical entanglement of enchantment and embarrassment. The author argues for a concept of the lyric as a medium for regulating the balance...

... that takes up a borderline position between literature and literary theory. The fact that the book was written and first published in Berlin ensured its place in studies of e´migre´ literature concerned with geographic borders. In light of this twofold understanding of border as a boundary between genres...

...George Pattison Noting the apparent chaos of Søren Kierkegaard's writing, the essay shows that Kierkegaard did, nevertheless, have a highly self-conscious relation to issues of genre, which was a central concern in the aesthetic theory of his critical role model, J. L. Heiberg. Salient features...

... have offered: McKeon’s argument that the novel becomes a new genre in the eighteenth century because of a special form of realism and Gregory Currie’s suggestion that fiction is not at all new. I will show how the answer proposed in this article can in fact be reconciled with these theories...

... context. Narrative, Shklovsky's own forte, would appear the paradigm case, as the most inclusive genre and the most akin to art's and life's temporal movement. I accordingly revisit “making strange,” with its branches and afterlives, from the viewpoint of narrative theory and history—especially...

..., previously unrecognized features of medieval and other premodern texts. Possible world theory and the concept of virtual narratives, in particular, can show that medieval narratives are also structured by events (e.g., plans, dreams) that, though thoroughly described, are never realized: they remain, instead...

..., and genre theory) within the academic landscape and briefly outlining its his- tory. Chapter 3, “Text and Authorship,” examines the contextual phe- nomena that are usually excluded from the purely text-based approach of traditional theories of narrative, such as the figure of the author...

...Daniel Hartley This article outlines a systematic theory of style that aims to combine “social formalism” with narratology. Beginning with a reading of a little-known essay by Raymond Williams on the history of English novelistic prose, the article argues that Williams’s insights into the social...

..., and genre theory) within the academic landscape and briefly outlining its his- tory. Chapter 3, “Text and Authorship,” examines the contextual phe- nomena that are usually excluded from the purely text-based approach of traditional theories of narrative, such as the figure of the author...

..., and genre theory) within the academic landscape and briefly outlining its his- tory. Chapter 3, “Text and Authorship,” examines the contextual phe- nomena that are usually excluded from the purely text-based approach of traditional theories of narrative, such as the figure of the author...

...) characters. Chapter 2, “The Theory of Narrative,” attempts to draw the boundaries of narratology as a discipline, relating it to neighboring disciplines (such as linguistics, poetics, semiotics, and genre theory) within the academic landscape and briefly outlining its his- tory. Chapter 3...

... it to neighboring disciplines (such as linguistics, poetics, semiotics, and genre theory) within the academic landscape and briefly outlining its his- tory. Chapter 3, “Text and Authorship,” examines the contextual phe- nomena that are usually excluded from the purely text-based approach...

... Today 23 : 21 -42. Forthcoming “Review of Modern Genre Theory, edited by David Duff,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 36 . Hernadi, Paul, and Francis Steen 1999 “The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia: A Crossdisciplinary Travelogue,” Style 33 (1): 1 -20. Jackson, Tony 2000...

...Margaret H. Freeman In this article the author explores the notion of possible bidirectionality in metaphor through an examination of Black's (1962, 1993) interaction theory, Fauconnier and Turner's (2002) blending theory, and several studies that document cases of interdomain influence...

... (young adulthood).The readers described their reading experiences in the latter period in a more general and abstract way, whereas the earlier memories had a more “recollective” character. We discuss this finding in relation to general knowledge and theories about autobiographical memory. The second...