John Frow creator text New York Routledge 2013 monographic eng

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vi,171p. PB 19.5x12.5cm. Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture. But it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in music and images, in film and television, genres actively generate and shape our knowledge of the world. Understanding genre as a dynamic process rather than a set of stable rules, this book explores. *the relation of simple to complex genres *the history of literary genre in theory *the generic organisation of implied meanings *the structuring of interpretation by genre *the uses of genre in teaching. Literature 808 FROG 9780415280631 230105 20230107130817.0