The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability

by Thomas O. Beebee

Book Overview

""This is a learned and lively book. It is a scholarly essay that makes for absorbing as well as highly enjoyable reading; it functions as an initiation to modern genre theory while making an important move within that field; it deals with culture high and popular, and a range of texts from the early modern era to the contemporary period; and its writing runs a generic gambit of its own, now theoretical exposition, now ingenious criticism, now theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271025700
• ISBN13: 9780271025704
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"