 | Fredric Jameson - 1982 - 316 strani
...much by their practice as by their theory. Nor is it difficult to see why this has been so. Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts...the proper use of a particular cultural artifact. The speech acts of daily life are themselves marked with indications and signals (intonation, gesturality,... | |
 | Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes - 1991 - 228 strani
...his definition of genre. Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts between writer and a specific public whose function is to specify the proper use of a particular cultural artefact. The speech acts of daily life are themselves marked with indications and signals lintonation,... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - 1987 - 432 strani
...contractually necessary institution which is nonetheless undermined by discursive heterogeneity: Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts...the proper use of a particular cultural artifact. The speech acts of daily life are themselves marked with indications and signals (intonation, gesturality,... | |
 | Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 298 strani
..."impossible," though Jameson does cite the pertinent example of generic categories, which he describes as "essentially literary institutions, or social contracts between a writer and a specific public" whose "perceptual signals . . . specify the use of a particular cultural artifact."25 Such remarks help clarify... | |
 | Arnold Krupat - 1989 - 208 strani
...or Tzvetan Todorov's early work), to use Jameson's distinction. 28 "Genres," as Jameson points out, "are essentially literary institutions, or social...the proper use of a particular cultural artifact" (Jameson, TPU, p. 106). But canon also can mean a selection from among genres— not merely a tradition... | |
 | William Herbert New, William H. New - 1990 - 322 strani
...part of that "political unconscious" of literature analyzed by Fredric Jameson. As he writes : "genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts...to specify the proper use of a particular cultural artifact."8 The relation between texts and institutions is emerging as the common project of the humanities... | |
 | Andrew Levy - 1993 - 184 strani
...Jameson has observed, genre definitions perform historically grounded and specific social functions: They are "essentially literary institutions, or social...the proper use of a particular cultural artifact." According to these terms, the claim that the short story is quintessentially American is not a neutral... | |
 | David Fishelov - 2010 - 189 strani
...Jameson, who adds a sociocultural dimension to the structural is t-semiotic usage of the term: "Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts...the proper use of a particular cultural artifact." 7 Immediately after this, Jameson remarks that the concept of institutionalized generic rules, together... | |
 | Marleen S. Barr - 1993 - 252 strani
...1. Cranny-Francis points to Freclric Jameson's definition of genres. According to Jameson, "Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts...function is to specify the proper use of a particular social artifact" (Cranny-Francis, 18; Jameson, 106). 2. I argue thai the term feminist science fiction... | |
 | Bridget Elliott, Jo-Ann Wallace - 1994 - 228 strani
...formal 'solutions' to unrcsolvable social contradictions" (Jameson 1981: 79), and that second, "Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts...function is to specify the proper use of a particular artifact" (106) - it is possible to begin to understand the complicated ways in which an ideology of... | |
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Genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts between a writer and a specific public, whose function is to specify the proper use of a particular cultural artifact. 
