Transformations of a Genre A Literary History of the Beguiled Apprentice
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.01.2022
Abbildungen
XXVI, 246 p.
Herausgeber
John L. RowlettVerlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
246
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/2 cm
Gewicht
429 g
Auflage
22001 Auflage 1st edition 2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-030-89667-6
The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations—including Addison’s ballad criticism in
The Spectator
,
The London Merchant
, Percy’s ballad editing in
Reliques
, and
Barnwell. A Novel
—in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.
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