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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103222469X ISBN 13: 9781032224695

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

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.

About this title

About the Author

Ramona Mosse is the Head of Theatre at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Anna Street is the Chair of the English Department and Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at Le Mans University in France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103222469X
• ISBN 13: 9781032224695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Mosse Ramona, Street Anna