TY - JOUR T1 - Freud's Rat Man and the Case Study: Genre in Three Keys JF - New Literary History Y1 - 2003 A1 - Wells, Susan KW - case study KW - genre KW - literary KW - rhetorical AB - “Freud’s Rat Man and the Case Study: Genre in Three Keys” 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’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. VL - 34 SP - 353–366 N1 - + pdf ER - TY - UNPB T1 - Genres and Their Borders: The Case of Power Structure Research Y1 - 2008 A1 - Wells, Susan KW - genre KW - literary genre studies KW - power KW - thermodynamics PB - Paper presented at the conference of the Rhetoric Society of America CY - Seattle, WA N1 - + doc ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Genres as Species and Spaces: Literary and Rhetorical Genre in The Anatomy of Melancholy JF - Philosophy & Rhetoric Y1 - 2014 A1 - Wells, Susan KW - epideictic KW - evolution KW - genre KW - literary genre KW - rhetorical genre KW - Satire KW - treatise AB -

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’s The Anatomy of Melancholy as a multigenred text suggests some of the potentials of this approach.

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