The Ideology of Genre(English, Paperback, Beebee Thomas O.)

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The Ideology of Genre(English, Paperback, Beebee Thomas O.) is written by Beebee Thomas O. and published by Pennsylvania State University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0271025700 (ISBN 10) and 9780271025704 (ISBN 13).

In a series of comparative essays on a range of texts embracing both high and popular culture from the early modern era to the contemporary period, The Ideology of Genre counters both formalists and advocates of the "death of genre," arguing instead for the inevitability of genre as discursive mediation. At the same time, Beebee demonstrates that genres are inherently unstable because they are produced intertextually, by a system of differences without positive terms. In short, genre is the way texts get used. To deny that genres exist is to deny, in a sense, the possibility of reading; if genres exist, on the other hand, then they exist not as essences but as differences, and thus those places within and between texts where genres "collide" reveal the connections between generic status, interpretive strategy, ideology, and the use-value of language.