Beyond Essence (or, Getting over 'There'): Cognitive and Dialectical Theories of Genre

Beyond Essence (or, Getting over 'There'): Cognitive and Dialectical Theories of Genre

Fredric Jameson's (1981) original project of a dialectic genre theory & its continuation by other writers as a favorite candidate to replace essentialist theories of genre are argued to lead to an impasse, as the impetus to situate genre in discourse as opposed to text or writer founders on...

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