GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.
Thomas D. Clark in " Virgins , Villains , and Varmints " supplies an excellent description of the stereotype . Clark explains that the dime novel hero was of several types and classes . There were the noble hunters who stood more than ...
This new edition of a key textbook brings together leading international scholars to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the debates, issues and concerns of television genre.
The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers.
Engaging Activities with reproducibles, rubrics, and everything you need to help students get the most out of their independent reading.
A Theory of Genre Worlds -- Genre Worlds and the Publishing Industry -- Transnational and Transmedia Genre Worlds -- Community and Creativity -- Genre Sociality Online and in Person -- Genre Worlds on the Page -- Genre Worlds and Change -- ...
This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students' learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student. This text is available as a free ebook at textbooks.opensuny.org.
At the same time, Beebee demonstrates that genres are inherently unstable because they are produced intertextually, by a system of differences without positive terms. In short, genre is the way texts get used.
In The Dynamics of Genre, Dallas Liddle innovatively combines Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the first rigorous ...
Anyone who advises young adult or adult readers will benefit from this guide, which covers such popular genres as western, crime, adventure, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Herald defines...