1. Many of us at a certain point in time have held a conventional or fixed idea of what genre is: a container model into which content is fit before developing an idea of its fluid nature. What, in your experience, has contributed to redefining your notion of genre? You may want to include new conclusions you have reached based on your revision of the idea.
2. What are some of the interesting examples of a genre being challenged through history and various social groups that you would like to show to your class as a lesson in the fluid nature of the genre?
2. What are some of the interesting examples of a genre being challenged through history and various social groups that you would like to show to your class as a lesson in the fluid nature of the genre?
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ReplyDeleteI am going to try and tackle part of your first question, related to key moments I have had in my own process of defining 'genre.' I remember in a Rhetorical Theory class I took during my time at UCF, we were assigned a reading that discussed genre in terms of "social action." This was probably the first time I had ever thought of genre as something other than form. To consider genre as a part of a larger social matrix that is added to and taken from often is pretty complicated by comes closer to defining what that word means I think.
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