Genre Trajectories

PART I: RE-ASSESSING THEORETICAL TRADITIONS: FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO BAKHTIN<BR>1. Philosophy ' 's Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry from Plato to Badiou; Garin Dowd<BR>2. Remembering to Forget: the Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin ' 's Treatment of Language; Michael Volek <BR>PART II: MEMORY, TESTIMONY, POLITICS <BR>3. The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano ' 's Dora Bruder (1997); Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert<BR>4. Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich ' 's and Eduard Erne ' 's Totschweigen (1994) and Elfriede Jelinek ' 's Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) (2008); Katya Krylova<BR>PART III: REVISITING LITERARY GENRES: WRITING BACK/WRITING FORWARD<BR>5. The Muse Writes Back: Lyric Poetry and Female Poetic Identity; Sarah Parker<BR>6. How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic; Timothy S. Murphy<BR>PART IV: VISUAL CULTURES: TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS AND GENRES <BR>7. Seduced by Art: the Problem of Photography; Lesley Stevenson<BR>8. Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone; Peter Buse <BR>PART V: FILM GENRES: ENDURANCE AND TRANSFORMATION<BR>9. The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture; Michael Stewart<BR>10. Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film with Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring; Erin K. Stapleton<BR>PART VI: PEDAGOGIES: APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION<BR>11. Student and Teacher Constructions of the ' 'Generic Contract ' ' in High School Essays; Anne Smedegaard<BR>12. Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom; Natasha Artemeva and Donald N. Myles<BR>