Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

By: Ramona Mosse and Anna Street

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Synopsis: This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century. Focusing on the interaction between tragedy and comedy, both renowned and emerging scholarly and creative voices from philosophy, theater, literature, and cultural studies come together to engage in dialogues that reconfigure genre as social, communal, and affective. In revisiting the challenges to aesthetic categorization over the course of the 20th century, this volume proposes a shift away from the prescriptive and hierarchical reading of genre to its crucial function in shaping thought and enabling shared experience and communication. In doing so, the various essays acknowledge the diverse contexts within which genre needs to be thought afresh: media studies, rhetoric, politics, performance, and philosophy.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 286 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781003812777
Related ISBNs:: 9780367218300, 9781032224695, 9780429266393
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 12/01/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Ramona Mosse and Anna Street
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts, Humor, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ramona Mosse
Edited by:: Anna Street