Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre by Snyder, John

Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813117249)

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Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre by Snyder, John

Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre

$35.00
Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre by Snyder, John

Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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" Genre-the articulation of "kind"-is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable. By combining theory with literary histories of three significantly different genres-tragedy, satire, and the essay-John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power. One pur pose of this approach is to reconcile the

Author: John Snyder
ISBN-10: 0813117240
ISBN-13: 9780813117249
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/27/1990
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By John Snyder
By John Snyder
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John Snyder is associate professor of literature and humanities at the University of Houston.

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