Transformations of a Genre: A Literary History of the Beguiled Apprentice

Cohen, Ralph and Rowlett, John L.

ISBN 10: 3030896706 / ISBN 13: 9783030896706

Published by see below, 2023

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2023 Palgrave paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

Contents:

Autobiographical Introduction, Bibliographical History of a Genre (including The History of the Barnwell Ballad, Genres and Their Provenance, Genre and Its Kinds, and The Social Structure of Genre),

Ballad, Texts, Tunes, Material Culture (including Genre as Combinatory Composition and Sexuality as Material Culture),

Companion Genres: From Ballad to Chapbook, 1

Intervention 1: Initiating Genres - Addison's Ballad Criticism and Its Parody (including The Spectator as Genre and Genres, The Social Basis of Addison's Ballad Criticism, Generic Reversion and the Resistance to Ballad Elevation, and Parody: The Ridicule of Addison's Ballad Criticism),

From Ballad to Tragedy: The Processes of Generic Conversion in The London Merchant (including The Dilemma of Generic Conversion, Prefatory Genres: The Prologue, the 'Dedication,' and 'Dramatic Personae', The Social Basis of Generic Conversion, The Function of Generic Components, The Genre of Victimization, and The Generic Consequences of Ballad Conversion),

Generic Combinations and Recombinations: Revising, Editing, Collecting, Anthologizing (including Lillo's Alternative Ending: Revision as a Genre, Editing the Ballad of George Barnwell: Editing as a Genre, 'Authenticity' as a Historical Concept, and Genre as Self-Revelation),

Tragedy to Novel: Genre and Value (including On the Conflict of Genres in the Novel, A Contestation of Genres, Affiliation as Network, and A Generic Interpretation), 2

Intervention 2: Problems of Generic Transformation,

Undermining a Genre: Parody, Value Reversal, Counter-Genre,

From False History to Historical Novel,

Ballad Criticism, Genre Theory, and the Dismantling of Rhetoric, and The Regeneration of Genre.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transformations of a Genre: A Literary History of the Beguiled Apprentice
• Publisher: see below
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030896706
• ISBN 13: 9783030896706
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations―including Addison’s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy’s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel―in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.

About the Author

At his death in 2016, Ralph Cohen was widely recognized as the preeminent theorist of genre. He founded and edited New Literary History, a multi-disciplinary journal of theory and interpretation. This book actualizes his vision of a new literary history and stands now as his magnum opus. 

John L. Rowlett is an independent scholar and former Program Director for the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia, USA.