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Genres and Genre Theory: A Response to Michael Rosen
Changing English, 2013This paper responds to Michael Rosen’s blog entries, ‘How Genre Theory Saved the World’, arguing that genre theory in the tradition of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) has made an important contribution to language and literacy pedagogy. It emerged in the Australian context in about 1980 and was initially developed in response to educational ...
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Digital genres: a challenge to traditional genre theory [PDF]
Information Technology & People, 2005 PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to account for the genre characteristics of non‐linear, multi‐modal, web‐mediated documents. It involves a two‐dimensional view on genres that allows one to account for the fact that digital genres act not only as text but also as medium.Design/methodology/approachThe theoretical framework of the article is the ...
Askehave, Inger, Nielsen, Anne E
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2001
Genre is a concept used in film studies and film theory to describe similarities between groups of films based on aesthetic or broader social, institutional, cultural, and psychological aspects. Film genre shares similarities in form and style, theme, and communicative function. A film genre is thus based on a set of conventions that influence both the
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Genre is a concept used in film studies and film theory to describe similarities between groups of films based on aesthetic or broader social, institutional, cultural, and psychological aspects. Film genre shares similarities in form and style, theme, and communicative function. A film genre is thus based on a set of conventions that influence both the
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2000
To argue for a Romantic genre theory may seem surprising. This is the period when William Wordsworth writes that every author must ‘ creat[e] the taste by which he is to be enjoyed’, when Madame de Stael praises Germany as opposed to France because its authors ‘form [their] public’, and when Victor Hugo insists that writers be judged by the ‘laws of ...
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To argue for a Romantic genre theory may seem surprising. This is the period when William Wordsworth writes that every author must ‘ creat[e] the taste by which he is to be enjoyed’, when Madame de Stael praises Germany as opposed to France because its authors ‘form [their] public’, and when Victor Hugo insists that writers be judged by the ‘laws of ...
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2000
Abstract IN James Thurber’s story ‘The Macbeth Murder Mystery’, a tourist finds herself in an English Lake District hotel with nothing to read but a paperback copy of The Tragedy if Macbeth. She is a great fan of detective fiction; Macbeth had mistakenly been shelved with the mystery novels: ‘“You can imagine”‘, she tells the narrator, ‘“
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Abstract IN James Thurber’s story ‘The Macbeth Murder Mystery’, a tourist finds herself in an English Lake District hotel with nothing to read but a paperback copy of The Tragedy if Macbeth. She is a great fan of detective fiction; Macbeth had mistakenly been shelved with the mystery novels: ‘“You can imagine”‘, she tells the narrator, ‘“
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2021
This chapter considers The Lord of the Rings through the lens of genre theory. It briefly summarises the genre theories of Andre Bazin, Robert Warshow and Laurence Alloway. It goes on to consider The Lord of the Rings’ relationship to different cinematic genres (e.g. fantasy, the war film, action-adventure, etc.).
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This chapter considers The Lord of the Rings through the lens of genre theory. It briefly summarises the genre theories of Andre Bazin, Robert Warshow and Laurence Alloway. It goes on to consider The Lord of the Rings’ relationship to different cinematic genres (e.g. fantasy, the war film, action-adventure, etc.).
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