Theorizing genres-interpreting works

New Literary History

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-297

  Seitel, Peter ^a  

^a Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage   (United States)

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EID: 60950588015     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2003.0023     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Adena Rosmarin, The Power of Genre (Minneapolis, 1985) ; hereafter cited in text as PG
2. Peter Seitel, The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature (New York, 1999); hereafter cited in text as PSG
3. M. M. Bakhtin, "The Problem of Speech Genres," in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin, 1986), pp. 60-102
4. William F. Hanks, "Discourse Genres in a Theory of Practice," American Ethnologist, 14 (1987), 668-92
5. Gary H. Gossen, "Chamula Genres of Verbal Behavior." in Toward New Perspectives in Folklore, ed. Americo Paredes and Richard Bauman (Austin, 1972), pp. 145-67
6. Tzvetan Todorov, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Ithaca, N.Y., 1975). pp. 13-14; hereafter cited in text as F
7. See, for example, the discussion in Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford, 1990), pp. 91-92
8. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (Princeton, 1985), p. 21
9. M. M. Bakhtin, "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, ed. Michael Holquist (Austin, 1981), pp. 84-258
10. V. I. Propp. Morphology of the Folktale (Austin, 1968)
11. A collection of their work can be found in Peter Seitel, See So That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania (Bloomington, 1980)
12. Tzyetan Todorov, Genres in Discourse (Cambridge, 1990), p. 33
13. William F. Hanks makes a similar distinction in Language and Communicative Practices (Chicago, 1996), p. 244; hereafter cited in text as LCP
14. While retaining Bakhtin's distinction between the terms and what the terms signify, I have reversed the signification to make them more consonant with common usage. See V. N. Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge. Mass., 1986). p. 99
15. Foucault calls this the rule of "double conditioning." Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction, tr. Robert Hurley (New York, 1978), pp. 99-100
16. Lee Haring, "A Characteristic African Folktale Pattern,"' in African Folklore, ed. Richard Dorson (Garden City, N.Y., 1972), pp. 165-79
17. M. M. Mulokozi, "The Nanga Bards of Tanzania: Are They Epic Artists?" Research in African Literatures, 14 (1983), 283-311
18. The Nanga Epos of the Bahaya: A Case Study in African Epic Characteristics, Ph.D. dissertation. University of Dar es Salaam, 1986
19. and "The Last of the Bards: The Story of Habibu Selemani of Tanzania (c. 1929-93)," Research in African Literatures, 28 (1997), 159-72
20. This kind of reference, between elements in a text and a body of generic knowledge that may apply to it is called "generic intertextuality" in Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman, "Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2 (1992), 131-73
21. Dan Ben Amos, 'Analytic Categories and Ethnic Genres," in Folklore Genres, ed. Dan Ben Amos (Austin, 1976)