Genre Fission: A New Discourse in Culture Studies: A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies - Softcover

Barr, Marleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877457034 ISBN 13: 9780877457039

Publisher: University of Iowa Press, 2000

Synopsis

What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek  characters have in common?  In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.

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Review

" For several years we have been accustomed to the idea that one of the features of our current cultural moment is the tendency of different genres to slip about and seep into one another.    But--until now--nobody has progressed from just noticing this phenomenon to analyzing it rigorously and in detail.  Marleen Barr's latest breakthrough book invents nothing less than a new theory of reading, one appropriate to an era in which genres won't stay still.  Tackling prose fiction, theory, film, television, painting, and much else--and written in a lively, engaging, deliberately irreverent style--"Genre Fission "is an indispensable contribution to modern cultural studies." --Carl Freedman, author of "Critical Theory and Science Fiction"

"For several years we have been accustomed to the idea that one of the features of our current cultural moment is the tendency of different genres to slip about and seep into one another. But--until now--nobody has progressed from just noticing this phenomenon to analyzing it rigorously and in detail. Marleen Barr's latest breakthrough book invents nothing less than a new theory of reading, one appropriate to an era in which genres won't stay still. Tackling prose fiction, theory, film, television, painting, and much else--and written in a lively, engaging, deliberately irreverent style--"Genre Fission "is an indispensable contribution to modern cultural studies." --Carl Freedman, author of "Critical Theory and Science Fiction""

Synopsis

This work aims to revitalize literary and cultural theory by proposing a discourse practice of examining the points where genres and attendant meanings first converge, then re-emerge as something new. The author examines authors such as Saul Bellow and John Updike, as well as film and television.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877457034
• ISBN 13: 9780877457039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290