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The Power of Genre

Day 3 of Emerging Genres

"The power of Genre"

coursekeeping and leftovers

Let's revisit (in light of Rosmarin's theory about
the "power of genre") our own interpretive practices:

Emerging Genres: Class Roster

Class Roster for Emerging Genres

Anne Dalke

Louisa Amsterdam
Jessy Brody
Claire Ceriani
Alexandra Funk
Megan Gallagher
Marina Gallo
Ellen Goodlett
Christina Harview
Allison Keefe
Hannah Mueller
Ingrid Paredes

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Week 1--Welcome to the Game that is Genre!

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 1:42pm

Welcome to the forum for Emerging Genres, a new interdisciplinary course at Bryn Mawr College. Let's start our conversation by musing out loud here together about "form" and "transformation," about play and its rules. What do you when you look @ these images? And/or: what is your response to Anne Freadman's invitation to think about genre as a game of tennis?

Emerging Genres: Archive of Class Notes

Archive of Class Notes for Emerging Genres

Day One: Reading Images, Imagining Forms

Day Two: Anyone for Tennis?

Day Three: The Power of Genre

Day Four: The Power and Limits of Synecdoche

Day Five: Starting Moby-Dick

Day Six: Exploring Moby-Dick

Reading Images, Imagining Forms

Notes towards Day 1 of
Emerging Genres

Reading Images, Imagining Forms

I. reading an image...


II. Reading another...

 

Narrative, Science, and Unpredictability


Narrative,
Science, and
Unpredictability

Anne Dalke

August 2007

"We fool ourselves with stories that cater to our...thirst for...patterns: the narrative fallacy.

Emerging Genres: Form and Transformation, From Novels to Blogs

Victor Bregeda, "The Transformation"

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