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Overview
" 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. By combining theory with literary histories of three significantly different genres-tragedy, satire, and the essay-John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power. One pur pose of this approach is to reconcile the
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- ISBN-13: 9780813117249
- ISBN-10: 0813117240
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: November 1990
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.18 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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