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The work of genre: selected essays from the English Institute

Robyn Warhol
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  • Introduction: Genre Regenerated ROBYN WARHOL
    • What Killed Genre?
    • Taxonomic and Dynamic Models of Genre
    • What Genre Can Be
    • What Genre Can Do
  • Part I What Genre Is
    • 1 Genre: Lyric JONATHAN CULLER
      • Notions of Genre
      • The Lyric Genre
      • Exemplary Lyrics
      • Lyric without First Person
      • Modern Lyrics
    • 2 The Prosaic Imagination CRAIG DWORKIN
      • The Unrecognizability of Prose
      • The Ubiquity of Lineation
      • The Insistence of Prose
      • Verse from Prose: Clark Coolidge
      • Verse from Prose: Lyn Hejinian
      • The Image of Prose in Prose: Joseph Roth
      • The Image of Prose in Prose: Stephen Crane
      • The Image of Prose in Prose: Eugène Ionesco and William Faulkner
      • The Image of Prose in Prose: Andrei Bely
    • 3 Migration across Genres WAI CHEE DIMOCK
      • The Digital Analogy
      • Brownian Motion in the Generic Pool
      • Science Fiction as Alternative History
      • Shades of Dresden
      • Mussolini Redux
      • Double Counterfactuals
      • Epic Miniaturized
    • 4 Dramatism MARTIN PUCHNER
      • [Intro]
      • The Modernist Closet Drama
      • Manifestos
      • The Socrates Play
      • Genre Theory
      • Kenneth Burke's Dramatism
      • Theater Studies Today
  • Part II What Genre Does
    • 5 The Shandean Lifetime Reading Plan DEIDRE LYNCH
      • “The most typical novel in world literature”
      • Novels' Clockwork
      • Reading Routines and Habits of Habitation
      • Rethinking Genre: The Novel and The “Parlour-Window Book”
      • Modern Times
      • Reader as Repeater
    • 6 Form and Informality: An Unliterary Look at World Literature JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER
      • [Intro]
      • Properties of World Literature
      • Under-World Literature: An Elvis of Another Style, Size, and Color
      • The Inferior Narrative Position in World Literature
      • Between Owning and Knowing
      • Novel Worlds: An Informal Interlude
      • Centers That Cannot Hold
      • Secondhand and After-: Markets of World Literature
      • Active Principles and Dulcificant Properties: The Isolation of Cultural Property
    • 7 Partial Representation ALEX WOLOCH
      • Representation and Genre
      • Form and Formlessness in the Novel
      • In Limbo: Between Reference and Form
      • Bruegel's Formal Realism
      • Form and Representation: A Reading of Edward Snow's Inside Bruegel
      • Formal and Social Multiplicity
      • Allegory and Vulnerability
  • Notes
    • Introduction: Genre Regenerated
    • 1. Genre: Lyric
    • 2. The Prosaic Imagination
    • 3. Migration across Genres
    • 4. Dramatism
    • 5. The Shandean Lifetime Reading Plan
    • 6. Form and Informality: An Unliterary Look at World Literature
    • 7. Partial Representation
  • About the Authors
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heb09353.0001.001 Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Auerbach, Erich, and William D. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
heb09354.0001.001 The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Bakhtin, M. M., and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
S/Z. Barthes, Roland. Editions du Seuil, 1970.
The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance. Colie, Rosalie Littel, and Barbara K. Lewalski. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
heb09356.0001.001 Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Frye, Northrop. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
heb09358.0001.001 Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree. Genette, Gérard. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
The Architext: An Introduction. Genette, Gérard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms. Hutcheon, Linda. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
The Political Unconscious. Jameson, Frederic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Idea of Lyric: Lyric Modes in Ancient and Modern Poetry. Johnson, W. R. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
The Emergence of Prose: An Essay in Prosaic. Kittay, Jeffrey, and Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740. McKeon, Michael. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine. Schor, Naomi. London: Routledge, 2006.
Theory of Prose. Shklovsky, Viktor. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 1991.
Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Steinberg, Meir. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Thiong'o, Ngugi wa. Heinemann, 1986.
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Excerpt from Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, trans. Eleanor Duckworth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), 45.

Excerpt from Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, trans. Eleanor Duckworth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), 45.

Figure 1: Excerpt from Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, trans. Eleanor Duckworth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), 45.

Excerpt from Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, 43.

Excerpt from Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, 43.

Figure 2: Excerpt from Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, 43.

Excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci, The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. André Chastel and trans. Ellen Callmann (New York: Orion, 1961), 30.

Excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci, The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. André Chastel and trans. Ellen Callmann (New York: Orion, 1961), 30.

Figure 3: Excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci, The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. André Chastel and trans. Ellen Callmann (New York: Orion, 1961), 30.

Excerpt from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, new enl. ed. (London: J. Souter for Richard Phillips, 1818), 56.

Excerpt from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, new enl. ed. (London: J. Souter for Richard Phillips, 1818), 56.

Figure 4: Excerpt from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, new enl. ed. (London: J. Souter for Richard Phillips, 1818), 56.

Excerpt from Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd ed., rev. Sir Ernest Gowers [New York: Oxford University Press, 1965]), 357.

Excerpt from Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd ed., rev. Sir Ernest Gowers [New York: Oxford University Press, 1965]), 357.

Figure 5: Excerpt from Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd ed., rev. Sir Ernest Gowers [New York: Oxford University Press, 1965]), 357.

Excerpt from The Book of English Trades, 85.

Excerpt from The Book of English Trades, 85.

Figure 6: Excerpt from The Book of English Trades, 85.

Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1995), 60–61.

Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1995), 60–61.

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Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March, 62.

Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March, 62.

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View from City Hall Tower, Dresden (“Blick von Rathausturm”); Deutsche Fotothek, Saxon State Library (Wikimedia Commons).

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Destroyed City Center, Dresden (“Zerstörtes Stadtzentrum”); German Federal Archive (Wikimedia Commons).

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Frontispiece, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: A New Edition. Vol. 1. (London: W. Strahan, et. al, 1782).

Frontispiece, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: A New Edition. Vol. 1. (London: W. Strahan, et. al, 1782).

Figure 11: Frontispiece, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: A New Edition. Vol. 1. (London: W. Strahan, et. al, 1782).

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Cover of Chris Abani, GraceLand (New York: Picador, 2004).

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Genette's diagram of the Aristotelian genre system in The Architext: An Introduction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 14.

Genette's diagram of the Aristotelian genre system in The Architext: An Introduction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 14.

Figure 16: Genette's diagram of the Aristotelian genre system in The Architext: An Introduction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 14.

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Overlay of the World Republic of Letters on Genette's quadrant.

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