LITERARY FORM AND GENRE
FORMALISM
THE 'OBJECTIVE' POLE

SUB-PAGES

Kinds:

• Drama
• Poetry
• Prose Fiction

Related Pages:

• Literary Semiotics / Literary Stylistics / Speech-Act Literary Theory: Linguistic Criticism

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on Literary Form and Genre

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Literary Form and Genre

ASSOCIATIONS

Form:

Genre:

Mode:

• International Association for the Fantastic in Arts

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Genre and Interpretation, Finnish Literary Society and Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Helsinki, June 10–12

2008:

2007:

2006:

• The Locus of Tragedy, Centrum voor filosofie van de kunst en literatuur, Universiteit Antwerp, November 23-25

2005:

• Imagining the Future: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, December 6-7

2004:

2003:

• Genre(s), le 43ème congrès de la SAES, l'Université Stendhal, Grenoble 3, May 9-11

2002:

• Poetics of the Text, University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia, June 7-8
• Defining Genres, Annual Conference, Canadian Semiotic Association, Toronto May 26-28

2001:

2000:

COURSES

Form:

Genre:

• Université Laval: Theory of Genres

JOURNALS

• Genre (California State University, Long Beach)
• Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (University of Oklahoma)

• Science Fiction Studies

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Anglo-American New Criticism:
  • Modernism
  • Mythology
  • Neo-Aristotelianism (Chicago School)
  • New Criticism
• Continental Literary Theory:
  • Marxist Literary Theory:
    • Dialogical (Bakhtinian) Literary Theory
    • Structuralist Marxist Literary Theory
  • Phenomenological / Existentialist / Hermeneutical Literary Theory:
    • Deconstructive Literary Theory
    • Foucauldian Literary Theory
  • Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Literary Theory:
    • Structuralist (Lacanian) Psychoanalytic Literary Theory
  • Semiotic / Semiological / Structuralist Literary Theory:
    • Russian Formalism
• Pragmatist Aesthetics / Critical Theory:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

• Anthologies:

  • Form:
  • Genre:
    • Duff, David, ed.  Modern Genre Theory.  London: Longman, 1999.
    • Freedman, Aviva, and Peter Medway, eds.  Genre and the New Rhetoric.  London: Routledge, 1994.
    • Freedman, Aviva, and Peter Medway, eds.  Learning and Teaching Genre.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994.
    • Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, ed.  Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History and Interpretation.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.

    • Perloff, Marjorie, ed.  Postmodern Genres.  Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1988.

    • Strelka, Joseph, ed.  Theories of Literary Genre.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1978.
  • Mode:
    • Allegory:
    • Comedy:
    • Fantastic:
    • Pastoral:
    • Romance:
    • Satire:
      • Allen, Charles Albert, ed.  Satire: Theory and Practice.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1962.
      • Connery, Brian, and Kirk Combe, eds.  Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism.  London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 1994.
    • Tragedy:
      • Felski, Rita, ed.  Rethinking Tragedy.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Form:

  • Genre:

    • Beebee, Thomas O.  The Ideology of Genre: a Comparative Study of Generic Instability.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1994.

    • Brunetière, Ferdinand.  L'Evolution des genres dans l'histoire de la littérature.  Paris: Hachette, 1914.

    • Cohen, Ralph.  "History and Genre."  New Literary History 17 (1986): 203-218.
    • Cohen, Ralph.  "Genre Theory, Literary History, and Historical Change."  Theoretical Issues in Literary History.  Ed. David Perkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
    • Colie, Rosalie.  The Resources of Kind: Genre Theory in the Renaissance.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1973.
    • Davis, Todd F., and Kenneth Womack.  Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
    • Derrida, Jacques.  "The Law of Genre." 
    • Fishelov, David.  Metaphors of Genre: the Role of Analogies in Genre Theory.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1989.
    • Fletcher, Angus.  Allegory: the Theory of a Symbolic Mode.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1964.
    • Fowler, Alastair.  "The Formation of Genres in the Renaissance and After."
      New Literary History 34.2 (2003): 185-200.
    • Fowler, Alastair.  "Genre and Tradition."  Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell.  Ed. Thomas H. Corns.  Cambridge: CUP, 1993. 
    • Fowler, Alastair.  "The Future of Genre Theory: Functions and Constructional Types."  The Future of Literary Theory.  Ed. Ralph Cohen.  London: Routledge, 1989.  291-303.
    • Fowler, Alastair.  "Genre."  International Encyclopedia of Communications.  Vol. 2.  Ed. Ed. Erik Barnouw.  Oxford: OUP, 1989. 215-217.
    • Fowler, Alastair.  Kinds of Literature: an Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1982.
    • Fowler, Alastair.  "Genre and the Literary Canon."  New Literary History 11.1 (1979): 97-119.  [see ch. 12 in his Kinds of Literature]
    • Fowler, Alastair.  "The Life and Death of Literary Forms."  New Directions in Literary History.  Ed. Ralph Cohen.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974.  77-94.
    • Gombrich, E. H.  Art and Illusion: a Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.  New York: Pantheon, 1960.
    • Guillen, Claudio.  "On the Uses of Literary Genre."  Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.  107-134. 
      • Theory of the Novel.  Ed. Richard McKeon.  Balimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  34-50.
    • Hernadi, Paul.  Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1972.
    • Hernadi, Paul.  "Order Without Borders: Recent Genre Theory in the English-Speaking World."  Theories of Literary Genre.  Ed. Joseph Strelka.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1978.
    • Hobbes, Thomas.  "Answer to Davenant's Preface to Gondibert."  1650.
    • Reichert, John.  "More than Kin and Less than Kind: the Limits of Genre Theory."  Theories of Literary Genre.  Ed. Joseph Strelka.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1978.  57-9.
    • Rosmarin, Adena.  Rereading  Allegory: a Narrative Approach to Genre.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.
    • Rosmarin, Adena.  The Power of Genre.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
    • Schaeffer, Jean-Marie.  "Literary Genres and Textual Genericity."  The Future of Literary Theory.  Ed. Ralph Cohen.  London: Routledge, 1989.  167-187.
    • Todorov, Tzvetan.  Genres in Discourse.  Trans. Catherine Porter.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
    • Todorov, Tzvetan.  "The Origin of Genres."  New Literary History 8 (1976-77): 159-70.
    • Todorov, Tzvetan.  Introduction à la littérature fantastique.  Paris: Seuil, 1970. 

      • The Fantastic: a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.  Trans. Richard Howard, Cleveland: Case Western Reserve UP, 1973.

        • "Literary Genres."  Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology.  Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.  191-204.

    • Wellek, René.  "Genre Theory, the Lyric, and Erlebnis."  Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism.  New Have: Yale UP, 1970.  
    • Wellek, René.  "Literary Genres."  Theory of Literature.  New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942.  226-237.
    • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Art for Art's Sake."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  475-498.
  • Mode:
    • Allegory:
    • Comedy:

      • Bergson, Henri.  Le Rire: Essai sur la signification du comique.  Paris: , 1900. 

        • Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic.  Trans. Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell.  Green Integer, 1911.  Rpt.  1999.

      • Critchley, Simon.  On Humour.  London: Routledge, 2002.
      • Hösle, Vittorio.  Woody Allen: an Essay on the Nature of the Comical.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. [review]
      • Marteinson, Peter.  On the Problem of the Comic: a Philosophical Study on the Origins of Laughter.  Ottawa: Legas Press, 2006.
    • Fantastic:
      • Todorov, Tzvetan.  Introduction à la littérature fantastique.  Paris: Seuil, 1970. 

        • The Fantastic: a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.  Trans. Richard Howard, Cleveland: Case Western Reserve UP, 1973.

          • "Literary Genres."  Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology.  Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.  191-204.

    • Pastoral:
      • Alpers, Paul J.  What is Pastoral?  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
    • Romance:
    • Satire:
      • Griffin, Dustin.  Satire: a Critical Reintroduction.  Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1994.
      • Scott, James.  Satire: from Horace to Yesterday's Comic Strips.  Prestwick House, 2005.
    • Tragedy:
      • Benjamin, Walter.  The Origins of German Tragic Drama.  Trans. John Osborne.  Intro. George Steiner.  London, Verso, 1977.

      • Nuttall, A. D.  Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

      • Williams, Raymond.  Modern Tragedy.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1966.

On-Line:

• Form:

• Genre:

• Mode:
  • Allegory:
  • Comedy:
  • Fantastic:
  • Pastoral:
  • Romance:
  • Satire:
  • Tragedy:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

• Anthologies:
  • Form:
  • Genre:
  • Mode:
    • Allegory:
    • Comedy:
    • Fantastic:
    • Pastoral:
    • Romance:
    • Satire:
    • Tragedy:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Form:
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Formalism."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  108-114.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Organic Unity."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  275-281.
  • Genre:
    • Casey, Bernadette.  "Genre."  Key Ideas in Human Thought.  Ed. Kenneth McLeish.  London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
    • Dubrow, Heather.  Genre.  London: Methuen, 1982.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Genre."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  115-120.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Genre Theory, Twentieth Century."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  120-127.
  • Mode:
    • Allegory:
    • Comedy:
    • Fantastic:
    • Pastoral:
    • Romance:
    • Satire:
    • Tragedy:

On-Line:

• Form:

  • Surdulescu, Radu: Form, Structure and Structurality in Critical Theory

  • Tatarkiewwicz, W.: Form in the History of Aesthetics (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Form

    • Formalism (Art)

    • Formalist Film Theory

    • Literary Formalism

    • Literary Technique

• Genre:

  • Chandler, Daniel (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): An Introduction to Genre Theory (or here)

  • Garcia Landa, Jose Angel: Genre Theory Bibliography

  • Jahn, Manfred (University of Cologne): Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres

  • Newsom, Carol A.: What Do We Mean by Genre?  A Report from Genology

  • Rosmarin, Adena: Rereading Allegory: a Narrative Approach to Genre (1994): Recent Trends in Genre Theory

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Genre

    • Literary Genre

    • Literary Mode

• Mode:
  • Allegory:
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Allegory
  • Comedy:
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Comedy
  • Fantastic:
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
      • Fantastic
      • Magic Realism
  • Pastoral:
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Pastoral
  • Romance:
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Romance
  • Satire:
    • Connery, Brian A.: Theorizing Satire A Bibliography
    • Harris, Robert: The Purpose and Method of Satire
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Satire
  • Tragedy:
    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Tragedy

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