In the present essay, I engage with Jahan Ramazani’s notion of "inter-genre" to study neoliberal whims U.S. empire through twenty-first-century poetry and in context so-called “War on Terror.” Specifically, concentrate Philip Metres’s "Sand Opera" (2015), reading it as situated intergeneric fields what call “documents-poems.” As argue, most arresting qualities are, first, how grafts documental ...

In his article, "How is a Genre Created? Five Combinatory Hypotheses," Johan F. Hoorn discusses that in genre theory, the creation of a genre is usually envisioned as a complex selection procedure in which several factors play an equivocal role. First, he advances that genre usually is investigated at the level of the phenomenon. For instance, questions may drawn on the effects of social status...

In recent decades, research on emotions has gained greater relevance within the field of classical studies. An outstanding and innovative point this perspective –with regard specifically to literary sphere– is that notions emotion affect help conceptualize frame reference governs reception a given text. To certain extent, implies understanding emotional dimension arises manifests itself in inst...

This essay engages with genre as a theory and how it can be used as a framework to determine whether Islamicate or the Muslim films can be called a genre by themselves, simply by their engagement with and representation of the Muslim culture or practice. This has been done drawing upon the influence of Hollywood in genre theory and arguments surrounding the feasibility / possibility of categori...

The article offers generalizing data concerning the system of rhetorical techniques used by A.D.Kantemir in small and medium-sized poetic genres. practice Kantemir is compared with recommendations from treatises Feofan Prokopovich De arte poetica rhetorica libri X, use various devices certain literary genres styles. hypothesis work assumption synthetic nature syllable Antiochus Kantemir, which ...

We argue for a model of document genre that encompasses both linguistic and graphical resources as a means of expression. Two bird books are analysed (1972 and 1996) and a simple framework presented for the description of graphical differentiation of communicative function. The analysis predicts that graphical differentiation in this genre is less in earlier publications. This suggestion is tes...