The Resource The power of genre, Adena Rosmarin
The power of genre, Adena Rosmarin
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- Summary
- The Power of Genre was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Power of Genre is a radical and systematic rethinking of the relationship between literary genre and critical explanation. Adene Rosmarin shows how traditional theories of genre-whether called "historical," "intrinsic," or "theoretical"--Are necessarily undone by their attempts to define genre representationally. Rather, Rosmarin argues, the opening premise of critical argument is always critical purpose or, as E.H. Gombrich has said, function, and the genre or "form" follows the reform. The goal is a relational model that works. Rosemarin analyzes existing theories of genre - those of Hirsch, Crane, Frye, Todorov, Jauss, and Rader are given particular attention-before proposing her own. These analyses uncover the illogic that plagues even sophisticated attempts to treat genre as a preexistent entity. Rosmarin shows how defining genre pragmatically - as explicitly chosen or devised to serve explicitly critical purposes - solves this problem: a pragmatic theory of genre builds analysis of its metaphors and motives into its program, thereby eliminating theory's traditional need to deny the invented and rhetorical nature of its schemes. A pragmatic theory, however, must be tested not only by its internal cohesion but also by its power to enable practice, and Rosmarin chooses the dramatic monologue, an infamously problematic genre, and its recent relative, the mask lyric, as testing grounds. Both genres-variously exemplified by poems of Browning, Thennyson, Eliot, and Pound-are ex post facto critical constructs that, when defined as such, make closely reasoned sense not only of particular poems but also of their perplexed interpretive histories. Moreover, both genres dwell on the historicity, textuality, and redemptive imperfection of the speaking self. This generic obsession ties the poems to their reception and, finally, to the openended, processes of hermeneutic question-and-answer stressed in Rosmarin's framing theory
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 199 pages)
- Contents
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- Preface; A Theoretical Introduction; Chapter 1. Defining a Theory of Genre; Chapter 2. The Dramatic Monologue; Chapter 3. The Mask Lyric; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Isbn
- 9780816655687
- Label
- The power of genre
- Title
- The power of genre
- Statement of responsibility
- Adena Rosmarin
- Subject
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- American poetry
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English poetry
- English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English-speaking countries
- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
- Genres littéraires
- Intellectual life
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Literaire genres
- 1800-1999
- Literary form
- Lyric poetry
- Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
- Monologue
- Monologue
- Poetics
- Poetics
- Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie lyrique -- Histoire et critique
- Poétique
- Literary form
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Power of Genre was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Power of Genre is a radical and systematic rethinking of the relationship between literary genre and critical explanation. Adene Rosmarin shows how traditional theories of genre-whether called "historical," "intrinsic," or "theoretical"--Are necessarily undone by their attempts to define genre representationally. Rather, Rosmarin argues, the opening premise of critical argument is always critical purpose or, as E.H. Gombrich has said, function, and the genre or "form" follows the reform. The goal is a relational model that works. Rosemarin analyzes existing theories of genre - those of Hirsch, Crane, Frye, Todorov, Jauss, and Rader are given particular attention-before proposing her own. These analyses uncover the illogic that plagues even sophisticated attempts to treat genre as a preexistent entity. Rosmarin shows how defining genre pragmatically - as explicitly chosen or devised to serve explicitly critical purposes - solves this problem: a pragmatic theory of genre builds analysis of its metaphors and motives into its program, thereby eliminating theory's traditional need to deny the invented and rhetorical nature of its schemes. A pragmatic theory, however, must be tested not only by its internal cohesion but also by its power to enable practice, and Rosmarin chooses the dramatic monologue, an infamously problematic genre, and its recent relative, the mask lyric, as testing grounds. Both genres-variously exemplified by poems of Browning, Thennyson, Eliot, and Pound-are ex post facto critical constructs that, when defined as such, make closely reasoned sense not only of particular poems but also of their perplexed interpretive histories. Moreover, both genres dwell on the historicity, textuality, and redemptive imperfection of the speaking self. This generic obsession ties the poems to their reception and, finally, to the openended, processes of hermeneutic question-and-answer stressed in Rosmarin's framing theory
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- CaPaEBR
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- Rosmarin, Adena
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Literary form
- Poetics
- Monologue
- Lyric poetry
- English poetry
- American poetry
- English-speaking countries
- Genres littéraires
- Poétique
- Monologue
- Poésie lyrique
- Poésie anglaise
- Poésie américaine
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
- American poetry
- English poetry
- Intellectual life
- Literary form
- Lyric poetry
- Monologue
- Poetics
- English-speaking countries
- Literaire genres
- Label
- The power of genre, Adena Rosmarin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface; A Theoretical Introduction; Chapter 1. Defining a Theory of Genre; Chapter 2. The Dramatic Monologue; Chapter 3. The Mask Lyric; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Control code
- ocn230205417
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 199 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816655687
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttbm82d
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)230205417
- Label
- The power of genre, Adena Rosmarin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface; A Theoretical Introduction; Chapter 1. Defining a Theory of Genre; Chapter 2. The Dramatic Monologue; Chapter 3. The Mask Lyric; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Control code
- ocn230205417
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 199 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816655687
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttbm82d
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)230205417
Subject
- American poetry
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English poetry
- English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English-speaking countries
- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
- Genres littéraires
- Intellectual life
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Literaire genres
- 1800-1999
- Literary form
- Lyric poetry
- Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
- Monologue
- Monologue
- Poetics
- Poetics
- Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie lyrique -- Histoire et critique
- Poétique
- Literary form
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