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The work of genre: selected essays from the English Institute
Robyn Warhol
Year: c2011.
Publisher:  English Institute in collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies. 
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Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
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
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Title: The work of genre : selected essays from the English Institute Robyn Warhol, editor.
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Cambridge, MA: English Institute in collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies, c2011.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90055
Subject Headings: • Literature -- Philosophy
• Literary form -- History and criticism
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