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Book Chapter
[691] Connors, Robert J.. "Genre Theory in Literature." In Form, Genre, and the Study of Political Discourse, edited by Herbert W. Simons and Aram A. Aghazarian, 25-44. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.
[1713] Grafton, Kathryn. "Situating the Public Social Actions of Blog Posts ." In Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre, 85-111. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein, eds ed. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2009.
[1305] Rajan, Tilottama. "Theories of Genre." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, 226-249. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Journal Article
[819] Kent, Thomas L.. "The Classification of Genres." Genre 16 (1983): 1-20.
[744] Fowler, Alastair. "The Formation of Genres in the Renaissance and After." New Literary History 34 (2003): 185-200.
[684] Cohen, Ralph. "History and Genre." New Literary History 17 (1986): 203-218.
[1021] Ziegfield, Richard. "Interactive Fiction: A New Literary Genre?" New Literary History 20 (1989): 341-372.
[687] Cohen, Ralph. "Introduction: Notes toward a Generic Reconstitution of Literary Study." New Literary History 34 (2003).
[742] Fowler, Alastair. "The Life and Death of Literary Forms." New Literary History 2 (1971): 199-206.
[788] Herrero, Javier. "Renaissance Poverty and Lazarillo's Family: The Birth of the Picaresque Genre." PMLA 94 (1979): 876-886.
[759] Frow, John. "'Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need': Genre Theory Today." Publications of the Modern Language Association 122 (2007): 1626-1634.
[785] Hauptmeier, Halmut. "Sketches of Theories of Genre." Poetics 16 (1987): 397-430.
[589] Alexander, Joy. "The Verse-novel: A New Genre." Children's LIterature in Education 36 (2005): 269-283.
[627] Bazerman, Charles. "What Activity Systems Are Literary Genres Part of?" Readerly/Writerly Texts 10 (2003): 97-106.
Miscellaneous
[968] Strelka, Joseph P.. Theories of Literary Genre In Yearbook of Comparative Criticism. Vol. 8. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978.