タイトル | Genres as Species and Spaces: Literary and Rhetorical Genre in The Anatomy of Melancholy |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
著者 | Wells, Susan |
Journal | Philosophy & Rhetoric |
ボリューム | 47 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 23 |
キーワード | epideictic, evolution, genre, literary genre, rhetorical genre, Satire, treatise |
要約 | 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. |
DOI | 10.1353/par.2014.0010 |