01629nas a2200181   4500008004100000245003400041210003400075260000900109300001400118490000700132520117100139653001201310653001001322653001501332653001101347100002301358856006601381       1987                        eng d00aSketches of Theories of Genre0 aSketches of Theories of Genre  c1987  a397–4300 v163 aThis paper deals with conceptions of genre in literary studies by critically discussing their implications from the viewpoint of an empirical science of literature that has turned its attention to TV phenomena. The basic question addresses the necessity of genre conceptions within the empirical theory of literature. It is argued that there is no need for conceptualizing ‘genre’ within that theory because the underlying philosophy of generic thinking implies an incommensurable metaphysics. On the other hand, it is shown that issues of modern (functionalist sociological) theories of genre can largely be reconstructed as starting points for an empirical theory of ‘genres’ if their core assumptions are grounded on the level of cognition. Types of genre theories considered here are the classificationist, the form-content descriptivist, the typological universalist, and the functionalist sociological approach. The paper concludes with an attitude against genre as a scientific object domain of its own and suggests that ‘generic’ phenomena should be treated as problems of the aggregation of knowledge for consensual interaction in media systems.10aBakhtin10agenre10aliterature10atheory1 aHauptmeier, Halmut  uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/biblio/sketches-theories-genre