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Prospects of power : tragedy, satire, the essay, and the theory of genre /

Genre -- the articulation of 'kind' - is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable, let alone viable. By combini...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snyder, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
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505 0 |a 1. Contemporary Genre Theory -- 2. Tragedies: Persians: Tragedy of Battle Victory; Eumenides: Tragedy of State Victory; Philoctetes: Tragedy of Stalemate; Medea: Tragedy of Winner-Lose-All -- 3. Tragic Genre -- 4. Satires; Juvenal: Satire to Tragedy; Petronius: Satire to Novel; Don Quixote: Satire to Fantasy to Romance to Novel; Butler: Conservative Satire to Mock Epic; Twain: Liberal Burlesque to Novel; Hasek: Menippean Satire to Anarchism -- 5. Satiric Semigenre -- 6. On and of the Essay as Nongenre; Retreat: Cicero and Montaigne; Lover of Fortuna and Enemy: Machiavelli and Bacon; "Retraite absolue": Rousseau; Aggression and Experimentalism: Emerson and Nietzsche -- 7. Toward a Dialectical Theory of Genre. 
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