Writing Genres
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2004
261 pages
978-0-8093-8738-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this volume the most comprehensive view of genre theory today. Writing Genres does not limit itself to literary genres or to ideas of genres as formal conventions but additionally provides a theoretical definition of genre as rhetorical, dynamic, and flexible, which allows scholars to examine the role of genres in academic, professional, and social communities. Writing Genres demonstrates how genres function within their communities rhetorically and socially, how they develop out of their contexts historically, how genres relate to other types of norms and standards in language, and how genres nonetheless enable creativity. Devitt also advocates a critical genre pedagogy based on these ideas and provides a rationale for first-year writing classes grounded in teaching antecedent genres.
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Content
- Cover
- Other Books in the Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Theory of Genre
- 2. Analysis of Genres in Social Settings
- 3. A Study of Genres in Context, a Theoretical Intermezzo
- 4. History of Genres and Genres in History
- 5. Creative Boundaries: An Argument for Genre as Standard, Genre as Muse
- 6. A Comparison of Literary and Rhetorical Genres
- 7. A Proposal for Teaching Genre Awareness and Antecedent Genres
- 8. A Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Author Bio
- Back Cover
