LITERARY FORM AND GENRE: FORMALISM
(THE 'OBJECTIVE' POLE)

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

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

• International Association for the Fantastic in Arts

CONFERENCES

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 Fictions 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:
    • General:
      • Duff, David, ed.  Modern Genre Theory.  London: Longman, 1999.
      • Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, ed.  Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History and Interpretation.  Cambridge, Mass.: 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.
    • Comedy:
    • Tragedy:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Form:

  • Genre:

    • General:

      • 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.
      • Fletcher, Angus.  Allegory: the Theory of a Symbolic Mode.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1964.
      • Fowler, Alastair.  "The Future of Genre Theory: Functions and Constructional Types."  291-303.
      • Fowler, Alastair.  Kinds of Literature: an Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes.  Cambridge, Mass.: 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.  Rpt. in 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.  The Fantastic: a Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.  Trans. R. Howard.  Cleveland: Case Western Reserve UP, 1973.
      • 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.
    • 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]
    • Tragedy:

On-Line:

• Form:

• Genre:

  • General:

    • Rosmarin, Adena: Recent Trends in Genre Theory

  • Comedy:
  • Tragedy:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

• Anthologies:
  • Form:
  • Genre:
    • General:
    • Comedy:
    • Tragedy:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Form:
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Formalism."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  108-114.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Organic Unity."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  275-281.
  • Genre:
    • General:
      • Dubrow, Heather.  Genre.  London: Methuen, 1982.
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Genre."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: 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.
    • Comedy:
    • 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

    • Plot

• Genre:

  • General:

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

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

    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

      • Literary Genre

  • Comedy:
  • Tragedy:

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