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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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Studies in Information, 2015 PurposeTo provide a small overview of genre theory and its associated concepts and to show how genre theory has had its antecedents in certain parts of the social sciences and not in the humanities.FindingsThe chapter argues that the explanatory force of
Jack Andersen
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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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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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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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The Weird and the Fantastic: Genre in Theory and Genre as History
MLNAbstract: This article argues that rigid, essentializing genre definitions such as those often deployed to define the “fantastic” are not adequate for the study of genre, because they rely on a narrow range of textual strategies that cannot account for the diversity of “genre-markers” that may influence the reception of a work. The notion of the “weird,
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