TY - BOOK ID - 77929132 TI - Generic interfaces in Latin literature AU - Papanghelis, Theodore D AU - Harrison, S J AU - Frangoulidis, Stavros A PY - 2013 VL - v. 20 SN - 18684785 SN - 3110303698 9783110303698 1299721745 9781299721746 9783110303681 311030368X PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Latin literature KW - Literary form. KW - Form, Literary KW - Forms, Literary KW - Forms of literature KW - Genre (Literature) KW - Genre, Literary KW - Genres, Literary KW - Genres of literature KW - Literary forms KW - Literary genetics KW - Literary genres KW - Literary types (Genres) KW - Literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Genre. KW - Latin. KW - Literature. KW - Poetics. KW - Theory. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929132 AB - Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map. ER -