In:A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Theory, criticism, education
Roger D. Sell
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 10] 2019
► pp. 107–124
Chapter 8Literary genre and history
Questions from a literary pragmaticist for socio-semioticians
Published online: 24 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.10.c8
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.10.c8
Article outline
- 1.The nature of the questions to be posed
- 2.The neoclassical decontextualization of literary genres
- 3.The modern emphasis on individual vision at the expense of genre
- 4.Rehabilitations of genre
- 5.Literary pragmatics
- 6.Four problems for a literary pragmatic account of genre
- 7.The socio–semiotic view of genre
- 8.An example
- 9.Postscript, 1991
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