Genre Trajectories Identifying, Mapping, Projecting

by Rulyova, Natalia; Dowd, Garin

• ISBN13: 9781137505477
• ISBN10: 1137505478
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-26
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The overarching ambition of Genre Trajectories is to explore trends and developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. The volume seeks both to explore and to problematize genre and genre studies by exposing the field to new identifications, mappings and projections. A wide-ranging set of perspectives is engaged by the 12 authors of the volume to produce multi-faceted readings of a fascinating range of texts drawn from poetry, Holocaust fiction and film, contemporary Hollywood and European film, the New Italian Epic, contemporary photography and the selfie, melodrama, as well as to foster an understanding of the role of genre in teaching and learning. The book is designed to engage the reader in a conversation about genre in relation to philosophy, memory, gender, new media, visuality, teaching and pedagogy.

Author Biography

Garin Dowd is Professor in Film, Media and Literature in the Ealing School of Media, Art and Design at the University of West London, UK. He is the author of Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari (2007), co-author (with F. Daly) of Leos Carax (2003) and editor (with L. Stevenson and J. Strong) of Genre Matters (2006). He has also published work on aspects of genre in the writings of Samuel Beckett, essays on the French film critic Serge Daney and on the films of Jacques Rivette.

Natalia Rulyova is Lecturer in Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK. She co-authored (with S. Hutchings) Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control (2009). She also co-edited (with B. Beumers and S. Hutchings) Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism: The Past as Future (2013), (with B. Beumers and S. Hutchings, eds) The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals (2011) and (with J. Morris and V. Strukov, eds) Special Issue New Media in New Europe-Asia (Volume 64, Issue 8, 2012).

Table of Contents

PART I: RE-ASSESSING THEORETICAL TRADITIONS: FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO BAKHTIN
1. Philosophy's Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry from Plato to Badiou; Garin Dowd
2. Remembering to Forget: the Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin's Treatment of Language; Michael Volek
PART II: MEMORY, TESTIMONY, POLITICS
3. The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder (1997); Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert
4. Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich's and Eduard Erne's Totschweigen (1994) and Elfriede Jelinek's Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) (2008); Katya Krylova
PART III: REVISITING LITERARY GENRES: WRITING BACK/WRITING FORWARD
5. The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity; Sarah Parker
6. How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic; Timothy S. Murphy
PART IV: VISUAL CULTURES: TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS AND GENRES
7. Seduced by Art: the Problem of Photography; Lesley Stevenson
8. Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone; Peter Buse
PART V: FILM GENRES: ENDURANCE AND TRANSFORMATION
9. The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture; Michael Stewart
10. Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film with Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring; Erin K. Stapleton
PART VI: PEDAGOGIES: APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION
11. Student and Teacher Constructions of the 'Generic Contract' in High School Essays; Anne Smedegaard
12. Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom; Natasha Artemeva and Donald N. Myles