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Genre And The Invention Of The Writer : Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition
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ISBN: 0874215544 9786613267009 1283267004 0874214769 9780874214765 6613267007 9780874215540 9781283267007 Year: 2003 Publisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press,

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In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls ""the genre function,"" he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writ


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The classic short story, 1870-1925 : theory of a genre
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ISBN: 9781909254770 9781909254787 1909254770 1909254789 9781909254794 1909254797 9781909254763 1909254762 9781909254756 1909254754 2821854072 Year: 2014 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular-the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing-particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagàwa Ryünosuke-Goyet shows that these authors were able tocreate brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. ln this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher end periodicills. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. ln doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

Genres of the credit economy : mediating value in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
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ISBN: 0226675327 0226675335 9786611966232 1281966231 0226675211 9780226675213 9781281966230 9780226675329 9780226675336 6611966234 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money-in other words, participating in the modern financial system-come to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife? Genres of the Credit Economy addressesthis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were naturalized, Mary Poovey explores complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed together, from bills of exchange and bank checks, to realist novels and Romantic poems, to economic theory and financial journalism. Taking up all early forms of financial and monetarywriting, Poovey argues that these genres mediated for early modern Britons the operations of a market system organized around credit and debt. By arguing that genre is a critical tool for historical and theoretical analysis and an agent in the events that formed the modern world, Poovey offers a new way to appreciate the character of the credit economy and demonstrates the contribution historians and literary scholars can make to understanding its operations. Much more than an exploration of writing on and around money, Genres of the Credit Economy offers startling insights about the evolution of disciplines and the separation of factual and fictional genres.

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Consumer credit - Great Britain - History. --- Economics and literature - Great Britain - History. --- English literature - History and criticism. --- Finance - Great Britain - History. --- Finance. --- Literary form - History. --- Money - Social aspects - Great Britain. --- Money in literature. --- Finance --- Consumer credit --- Money in literature --- Money --- Economics and literature --- Literary form --- English literature --- Financial Management & Planning --- Business & Economics --- History --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Consumer debt --- Economic aspects --- Exchange --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Credit --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- economics, finance, financial, money, income, wealth, 18th, 19th, century, britain, british, banking, borrowing, borrower, bank, investor, investment, currency, modern, contemporary, bills, romantic, poetry, poems, theory, journalism, writing, writer, radical, literary, fiction, aesthetic, formalism, political, professional, class, readership.

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