Heim / Vejdovsky / Pickford The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-8233-9327-6
Verlag: Narr
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 38, 175 Seiten

Reihe: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL)

This volume presents a selection of essays discussing recent developments in genre theory. It furthermore reflects the current research of members of the Swiss Association of North American Studies.
From the contents:

2) Linda Williams Tales of Sound and Fury or the Elephant of Melodrama
3) James Dorson Unformed Forms: Genre Theory, and the Trouble with Caroline Levines Forms
4) Audrey Loetscher Taking Carbon Culture to Court: The Eco-Legal Discourse and the Problematic Use of Genre in U.S. Climate Change Litigation
5) Sixta Quassdorf I would prefer not to: Routine and Agency in the Emerging Genre of the Office Novel
6) Bryan Banker The Modality in which Class is Lived: Literalizing Race and Class in The Expanse
7) Olga Thierbach-McLean The Trope of Asia in Cyberpunk Movies since the 1980s
8) Rebekka Nordmann The American Short Story: A Genre of Influence?
9) J. Jesse Ramirez Are Orcs Racist? Genre, Racecraft, and Bright
10) Courtney Jacobs and Ronald Schleifer Literary Genre and Emotional Experience: The After-Effects of Intergenerational Trauma in the Neo-Slave Narrative of Toni Morrisons Beloved

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heim, Cécile

Vejdovsky, Boris

Pickford, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Über Autor(innen)

Cécile Heim is a doctoral candidate in Gender studies and North American literature and culture.
Boris Vejdovsky, PhD, Maître denseignement et de recherche I (tenured Senior Lecturer)
Benjamin Pickford, PhD, Maître Assistant (Junior Lecturer, non-tenured)