GenReVisions
Allen, Martina
Despite decades in the naughty corner of literary studies, genre has arguably become an increasingly central category to the production and interpretation of contemporary literature. 'GenReVisions' examines the scope of genre usage in Anglophone literature today and its effects on the construction of literary and extra-literary 'worlds'.
Combining insights from pragmatics, cognitive poetics and constructivist philosophy, the first part of the...