Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre

" Genre-the articulation of "kind"-is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable. By combining theory with literary histories of three significantly different genres-tragedy, satire, and the essay-John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power. One pur pose of this approach is to reconcile the

Author: John Snyder
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 11/27/1990
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780813117249

About the Author

John Snyder is associate professor of literature and humanities at the University of Houston.

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