Genre Trajectories Identifying, Mapping, Projecting
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on genre and identifies developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. Genre approaches are applied to examine a fascinating range of texts including ancient Greek poems, Holocaust visual
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Genre Trajectories Identifying, Mapping, Projecting Edited by
Garin Dowd University of West London, UK
and
Natalia Rulyova University of Birmingham, UK
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Garin Dowd and Natalia Rulyova 2015 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-50547-7
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
Notes on Contributors
ix
Introduction Garin Dowd and Natalia Rulyova
1
Part I Reassessing Theoretical Traditions: From Ancient Greece to Bakhtin 1 Philosophy’s Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry and the Poem from Plato to Badiou Garin Dowd
11
2 Remembering to Forget: The Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin’s Treatment of Language Michael Volek
29
Part II Memory, Testimony, Politics 3 The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert 4 Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich’s and Eduard Erne’s Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek’s Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) Katya Krylova
45
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Part III Revisiting Literary Genres: Writing Back/Writing Forward 5 The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity Sarah Parker v
89
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