Genre transgression and auto/biography in Mavis Gallant's "When we were nearly young"
As Claire Obaldia points out, the intensive concern with generic studies in recent times has clearly shown that despite --or perhaps because of-- the striking progress in this field, the question of "genre" remains one of the most difficult in literary theory (1). Aristotle made taxonomy...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | As Claire Obaldia points out, the intensive concern with generic studies in recent times has clearly shown that despite --or perhaps because of-- the striking progress in this field, the question of "genre" remains one of the most difficult in literary theory (1). Aristotle made taxonomy the very praxis of poetics, aiming to find the "essential quality" of each genre. Recent critical directions, however, argue that literary texts are composed of heterogeneous and often contradictory generic ... |
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