Talk:Genre studies

Old comments
-- I feel strongly that this article reads too much like an essay advancing various points of contention within the genre studies movement, rather than describing the topic itself from outside the subject. I'm tagging it. --75.168.235.205 (talk) 06:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

This is a limited representation of genre studies; there also exists rhetorical genre studies in linguistics that should either be added to this document or linked from this document. Msanford 22:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC) I'm just a visitor...don't really know how to do things...but I was noticing that this page does not link to "genre criticism," which covers the stuff I was actually looking for when I first arrived at the "genre studies" entry (Bakhtin, Carolyn Miller, etc.). Can someone link it up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.17.134.200 (talk) 20:54, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Linked-up Msanford (talk) 21:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

this article makes out that genre studies take a historical turn as a result of Derrida's and then Cohen's papers (respectively 1980; 1986). Reception discourse on 'horizons of expectations' (applicable to, but not limited to, genre) in their synchronic and diachronic aspects date back at least to HR Jauss's seminal 'Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory', trans. in NLH vol.2 no.1 (Autumn 1970). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.14.199 (talk) 03:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Added the reference to Jauss and link to Horizons of Expectation page, but link is not working?Kkaczmarek (talk) 03:28, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

--Looks like a lot of original research on this page. It's well written, but probably should be moved to a different site. 69.2.58.161 (talk) 18:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Structuralism and Genre
This article incorrectly states that the study of genre is inherently structuralist. Clearly, it's not, since the ancient Greeks were doing it. DionysosProteus (talk) 16:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

The article states not that genre studies is inherently structuralist, but that it is structuralist. The fact that ancient Greeks were doing it does not invalidate this claim. Furthermore, the article goes on to state that "Genre theory or genre studies got underway with the Greeks", so any reader in any way familiar with structuralism as a movement will not be misled. Finally, the online Oxford English Dictionary defines structuralism as "Any theory or method in which a discipline or field of study is envisaged as comprising elements interrelated in systems and structures at various levels, the structures and the interrelations of their elements being regarded as more significant than the elements considered in isolation; also, more recently, theories concerned with analysing the surface structures of a system in terms of its underlying structure." Study of genre fits this description perfectly; even the genre studies carried out by the Ancient Greeks. Oneillj4 (talk) 00:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Mediocre article
Wittgenstein engaged in "deconstruction"? "dictionary.com" as an authority on the definition of genre? Can someone competent please rewrite this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.192.235.213 (talk) 15:41, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Probably should be removed
This article is inconsistent. Genre studies in literature is only tangentially related to genre theory in sociolinguistics and literacy theory. I agree with much of what others say. Eventually, I'll write something on Genre Theory, but this is a mess. mnewmanqc (talk) 21:45, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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