- an interdisciplinary network
- funded by AHRC
- organised by Dr Natasha Rulyova, the University of Birmingham
The more information humans have to deal with on a daily basis and the faster they have to do it, the stronger their need is for effective means of ordering information. Genre as taxonomy fulfils this human need. Genre is used to structure information, to create meaning, and to make sense of reality. These are only a few of the many questions that the genre studies network will address:
- How do people arrive at their judgement about the genre of the text?
- What is the relationship between the medium and genre, the canon and genre, the author and genre?
- Is the development of genres a function of technological development or a result of aesthetic judgement?
- How do genres travel across historical, cultural and linguistic boundaries? How do they help and impede human communication?
- What correlations have been asserted between genre and gender?
Workshops
- Date
- 06/10/2012
- Description
- What informs our judgement about the genre of a text?
- Date
- 24/11/2012
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- What critical approaches are there to gendering and genre-ing of the text?
- Date
- 10/12/2012
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- Do new technologies necessarily lead to the advent of new genres? What are the differences between the medium and genre?
- Date
- 23/02/2013
- Location:
- University of Leeds
- Description
- How successfully does genre communicate across cultural frontiers?
- Date
- 29/04/2013
- Location:
- Barber Institute of Fine Arts
- Description
- What are the implications of the emergence of new modes of visuality for old genres?
- Date
- 10/06/2013
- Location:
- London, Senate House
- Description
- What is the role of so-called 'generic contract' between the author and readers/audiences?
- Date
- 28/09/2013
- Location:
- Centre for Professional Development, University of Birmingham
- Description
- Workshop on Memory and Genre.