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Defining Definition

define  c.1384, from O.Fr. definir "to end, terminate, determine," from L.

Reading Notes from "Genre and Gender"


Reading Notes from Mary Eagleton,
"Genre and Gender"

feminist criticism looks at genre in terms of sexual difference
and asks if we can create a criticism which is non-essentialist and non-reductive...

the novel became a possible form for women; lyricism was too assertive/egotistic
literary history privileges male-cominated forms; female forms were seen as less literary
generic divisions are not neutral , impartial; aesthetic judgements are ideologically bound

Welcome to the Promised Land!

Day 15 of Emerging Genres:
Welcome to the Promised Land!

(with Jessy taking notes....)




"Freedom is a Feeling": Continuing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Day 13 of Emerging Genres

"Freedom is a Feeling":
Continuing Uncle Tom's Cabin



I. mopping up/going on...

Al this week's archivist

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 4

This is the final set of webpapers for the new course on Emerging Genres offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. As the semester ends, students are writing here about what most interested them over the course of our conversations about genres, where they come from, where they go, what varieties of forms they take...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 3

This is the third set of webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. Three months into the semester, students are writing here, generally, about the genres we call "diary" and "autobiography," and specifically about a particular genre now emerging from that tradition, which we have just begun to call a "blog."

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 2

This is the second set of webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. Two months into the semester, students are writing here, generally, about the literary categories we call "genres," and specifically about a particular (prototypical?) romance, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

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