This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other. The reader is guided into the discussion surrounding this key concept and its history through a general introduction, followed by eighteen chapters that represent a variety of discursive practices as well as analytic methods from several scholarly traditions. This volume will have wide appeal to several academic audiences within the humanities, both in Finland and abroad, and will especially be of interest to scholars of folklore, language and cultural expression.
Author(s): Kaarina Koski, Frog, Ulla Savolainen (eds.)
Series: Studia Fennica. Folkloristica, 22
Publisher: Finnish Literature Society
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 482
City: Helsinki
Preface 11
Acknowledgements 14
Introduction
Frog, Kaarina Koski and Ulla Savolainen / At the Intersection of Text and Interpretation. An Introduction to Genre 17
I Theoretical Approaches to Genre
Frog / 1. "Genres, Genres Everywhere, but Who Knows What to Think?" Toward a Semiotic Model 47
Tomi Kokkonen and Inkeri Koskinen / 2. Genres as Real Kinds and Projections. Homeostatic Property Clusters in Folklore and Art 89
II Relations between and within Genres
Kaarina Koski / 3. The Legend Genre and Narrative Registers 113
Rebecca M. C. Fisher / 4. Genre, Prayers and the Anglo-Saxon Charms 137
Antti Lindfors / 5. Notes on Reflexivity and Genre in Stand-Up Comedy Routines 152
Lotte Tarkka / 6. The Poetics of Quotation. Proverbial Speech, Entextualization and the Emergence of Oral Poems 175
III Between Folklore and Literature
Ulla Savolainen / 7. The Genre of Reminiscence Writing. Applying the Bakhtin Circle's Genre Theories 203
Camilla Asplund Ingemark / 8. The Chronotope of the Legend in Astrid Lindgren's "Sunnanäng". Toward an Intergeneric Level of Bakhtinian Chronotopes 232
Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen / 9. Genre and the Prosimetra of the Old Icelandic "fornaldarsögur" 251
Aleksandar Pavlović / 10. From Traditional to Transitional Texts. South Slavic Oral Tradition and Its Textualization 276
IV Emic and Etic Definitions
Pekka Hakamies / 11. Proverbs – A Universal Genre? 299
Liisa Granbom-Herranen / 12. The Proverb Genre. A Relic or Very Much Alive? 317
Mrinalini Atrey / 13. Major Generic Forms of Dogri "lok gathas" 340
Vesna Trifunović / 14. Manifestations of Humor in Serbian Folklore Material 365
V The Politics of Meaning-Making
Ray Cashman / 15. Genre as Ideology-Shaping Form 387
Pauliina Latvala / 16. The Use of Narrative Genres within Oral History Texts. Past Representations of the Finnish Civil War (1918) 403
Greg Dalziel / 17. The Reputation of a Genre. Understanding the Changing Meaning of Rumor 426
Vesa Kyllönen / 18. Textual Politics of the Interpretative Act 446
Indices
Index of Persons 469
General Index 473
