The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations
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The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations

  1. 175 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations

About this book

This volume presents a selection of essays discussing recent developments in genre theory. It furthermore reflects the current research of members of the Swiss Association of North American Studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. General Editor’s Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. James Dorson - Unformed Forms: Genre Theory and the Trouble with Caroline Levine’s Forms
  6. Audrey Loetscher - Taking Carbon Culture to Court: Civil Lawsuits as Political Manifestoes in US Climate Change Litigation
  7. Sixta Quassdorf - “I would prefer not to”: Routine and Agency in Office Fiction
  8. Bryan Banker - “The Modality in Which Class is ‘Lived’”: Literalizing Race and Class in The Expanse
  9. Olga Thierbach-McLean - A Familiar Otherness: The Trope of Asia in Cyberpunk Movies since the 1980s
  10. J. Jesse Ramírez - Are Orcs Racist? Genre, Racecraft, and Bright
  11. Courtney Jacobs and Ronald Schleifer - Literary Genre and Affective Experience: Intergenerational Trauma in the Neo-Slave Narrative of Toni Morrison’s Beloved
  12. Notes on Contributors