Genre Trajectories: Identifying, Mapping, Projecting

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Philosophy’s Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry and the Poem from Plato to Badiou....Pages 11-28
Remembering to Forget: The Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin’s Treatment of Language....Pages 29-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder....Pages 45-65
Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich’s and Eduard Erne’s Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek’s Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)....Pages 66-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity....Pages 89-108
How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic....Pages 109-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Seduced by Art: The Problem of Photography....Pages 133-143
Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone....Pages 144-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture....Pages 165-182
Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film without Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring....Pages 183-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Constructing a Voice of Authority in Upper Secondary School Essays....Pages 203-224
Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom....Pages 225-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-255