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Aphorisms and Philosophy : Contextualizing Aphoristic Texts-Assumptions about Subject-Matter

Journal of English Studies, 2011
This article analyses two current beliefs about the subject matter and the text-context relation of aphorisms. It is a commonly claimed that aphorisms are philosophical texts and that aphorisms are texts that function in isolation from any context.
Marco A. Ángel Lara
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Sex, Dr(a)gs and Rock’n’Roll: Diverse Masculinities of Glam Metal, Sleaze Metal and Hair Metal

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021
The following essay retraces the genre development and correlations of three 1980s hard rock subgenres: glam metal, sleaze metal and hair metal.
Celina Jeray
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Les frontières du poème en prose : pour une délimitation générique / The Prose-Poem Boundaries: Toward a Delimitation of Genre [PDF]

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2019
Since its birth, the generic label of prose poem has been twisted in order to admit a large variety of texts. It often happens that those texts, after a short reflection, escape from the minimal categories of the prose poem as a genre.
Pedro Baños Gallego
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Definiując urban fantasy i romans paranormalny. Przekraczanie granic gatunków, mediów, a także siebie i innych w nowych nadprzyrodzonych światach

Creatio Fantastica, 2018
Non-existent before the late 1980s, in recent years urban fantasy / paranormal romance has become the prevailing form of the monstrous Gothic in popular culture.
Leigh M. McLennon
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"A Parliament of Monsters": Genre, Disability, and the Revival of Epic Ability in Wordsworth's Prelude

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019
Although scholars addressing William Wordsworth's shorter lyrics have traditionally praised his positive treatment of physical otherness, at least one commenter writing on The Prelude correctly characterizes Wordsworth's depiction of disabled individuals
Pasquale S. Toscano
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Social media as communicative genres

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2011
As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay
Stine Lomborg
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The Problem of Memory and Oblivion: Bakhtin’s Mechanisms of Saving/Erasing Traces of Traditions in Cultural History [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2016
The question of genre traditionally occupies a central position in Russian literary theory. This article focuses on the problem of memory and oblivion, their role in the development of literary genres, construction of images, and preservation and ...
Irina L. Popova
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„Błąd idealizmu” vs „pierwiastek ogólnoludzki”, czyli genologia Stefanii Skwarczyńskiej a romantyzm niemiecki

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2019
 In the article I juxtapose two models of thinking and writing about literary genres: classical and romantic. The first one originates from antiquity, Italian renaissance and French classicism.
Przemysław Pietrzak
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Regulamin działu forum dyskusyjnego

LingVaria, 2021
Internet Forum Rules. Structural Determinants of a Genre Pattern The purpose of this article is to describe the genre identity and components of the structural aspect of the genre pattern of internet forum rules, taking into account the newest ...
Kamil Wabnic
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THE POLITICS OF GENRE CRITICISM: THE CASE OF POSTCOLONIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022
Postcolonial Studies has often been accused of ignoring the material histories of colonialism and its legacies by virtue of its focus on textual relations and representations.
Bart Moore-Gilbert
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