@article {1126, title = {Taskography: Translation as Genre of Literary Labor}, journal = {PMLA}, volume = {122}, year = {2007}, month = {10/2007}, pages = {1403-15}, chapter = {1403}, author = {Emily Apter} } @article {1130, title = {Poetry of Politics and Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish{\textquoteright}s Genre-Transforming Tribute to Edward W. Said}, journal = {PMLA}, volume = {122}, year = {2007}, month = {10/2007}, pages = {1447-62}, chapter = {1447}, abstract = {

This essay provides an analysis of \“Tibaq,\” an elegy written in Edward W. Said\’s honor by the acclaimed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Noting that the poem exhibits aspects of a number of genres and demonstrates Darwish\’s generally innovative approach to traditional literary forms, I consider how he has transformed the\ marthiya, the elegiac genre that has been part of the Arabic literary tradition since the pre-Islamic era. I argue that Darwish used the elegy-writing occasion to comment on Said\’s politics and to make respectful use of his critical methods, particularly his interdisciplinary borrowing of counterpoint, a concept typically used in music analysis. By reworking the conventionalmarthiya\ to represent Said\’s life in exile and his diverse body of work and by putting his contrapuntal method into practice in the conversation depicted in the poem, Darwish elegizes a long-lasting friendship and shores up a shared political cause. (RD)

}, author = {Rebecca Dyer} } @article {1133, title = {Genres, Text Types, or Discourse Modes? Narrative Modalities and Generic Categorization}, journal = {Style}, volume = {34}, year = {2000}, pages = {274-92}, chapter = {274}, author = {Monika Fludernik} } @article {1136, title = {Come Be My Love: The Song of Songs, Paradise Lost, and the Tradition of the Invitation Poem}, journal = {PMLA}, volume = {128}, year = {2013}, month = {03/2013}, pages = {373-85}, chapter = {373}, abstract = {

The invitation poem, in which the beloved is urged to come away to an idealized place, is among the most enduring genres of European love poetry. The tradition begins with the biblical Song of Songs, which sets several important precedents: a dialogic framework, a close association of lover and landscape, and a sense of love as exile. Medieval and Renaissance invitation poems follow the Song of Songs but shift its emphases toward monologue, materialism, and importunity. Milton thus inherits a dual tradition of invitational poetry, both aspects of which figure prominently in\ Paradise Lost. Recognizing the traditional features of the genre therefore illuminates significant moments in the epic, including, notably, Eve\’s final speech. The invitational tropes in this passage reveal how Eve reconceives of exile as homecoming and how she reestablishes a sense of radical mutuality with Adam by completing a dialogue that began before the Fall.\ (EG)

}, author = {Erik Gray} } @inbook {1138, title = {Maybe Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sumerian Heroic Poetry}, booktitle = {Epic and History}, year = {2010}, pages = {7-25}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, organization = {Wiley-Blackwell}, chapter = {2}, address = {Chichester}, author = {Piotr Michalowski and David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub} }