01000nas a2200205 4500008004100000245009300041210006900134300000700203490000700210520040900217653001500626653001400641653001000655653001900665653002100684653001100705653001300716100001700729856004800746 2014 eng d00aGenres as Species and Spaces: Literary and Rhetorical Genre in The Anatomy of Melancholy0 aGenres as Species and Spaces Literary and Rhetorical Genre in Th a230 v473 a
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.
10aepideictic10aevolution10agenre10aliterary genre10arhetorical genre10aSatire10atreatise1 aWells, Susan uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/pt/node/1304