@article {1002, title = {Freud{\textquoteright}s Rat Man and the Case Study: Genre in Three Keys}, journal = {New Literary History}, volume = {34}, year = {2003}, note = {+ pdf}, month = {2003}, pages = {353{\textendash}366}, abstract = {{\textquotedblleft}Freud{\textquoteright}s Rat Man and the Case Study: Genre in Three Keys{\textquotedblright} analyses the Rat Man case in terms of literary, sociolinguistic, and rhetoric genre theories, focusing on his use temporality and quotation to create the institutional setting in which the case is read. Freud{\textquoteright}s case is then contrasted with a contemporary psychiatric case study, in which clinical and institutional discourses are juxtaposed. The essay argues for a productive dialogue among literary, sociological, and rhetorical approaches to genre.}, keywords = {case study, genre, literary, rhetorical}, author = {Wells, Susan} } @unpublished {1003, title = {Genres and Their Borders: The Case of Power Structure Research}, year = {2008}, note = {+ doc}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Paper presented at the conference of the Rhetoric Society of America}, address = {Seattle, WA}, keywords = {genre, literary genre studies, power, thermodynamics}, author = {Wells, Susan} } @article {1304, title = {Genres as Species and Spaces: Literary and Rhetorical Genre in The Anatomy of Melancholy}, journal = {Philosophy \& Rhetoric}, volume = {47}, year = {2014}, pages = {23}, chapter = {113}, abstract = {

Contemporary genre theory is dominated by metaphors of evolution and speciation; this article proposes alternate metaphors of spatiality and exchange. A spatial understanding of genre permits more productive interactions between literary and rhetorical genre theory. A reading of Robert Burton{\textquoteright}s The Anatomy of Melancholy as a multigenred text suggests some of the potentials of this approach.

}, keywords = {epideictic, evolution, genre, literary genre, rhetorical genre, Satire, treatise}, doi = {10.1353/par.2014.0010}, author = {Wells, Susan} }