1 / 9

class plan

class plan. Genre review SF project presentations Final portfolio questions / E-submit break What makes a text effective SF? Is Battlestar Galactica effective?. what is this class about?. genre. genre in the OED. etymology: F. genre kind: see gender . 1. a. Kind; sort; style.

marymsmith
Download Presentation

class plan

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. class plan • Genre review • SF project presentations • Final portfolio questions / E-submit break • What makes a text effective SF? • Is Battlestar Galactica effective?

  2. what is this class about? genre

  3. genre in the OED etymology: F. genre kind: see gender. 1. a. Kind; sort; style. b.spec. A particular style or category of works of art; esp. a type of literary work characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose. 2. a. A style of painting in which scenes and subjects of ordinary life are depicted. b.attrib., as genre-painting, etc. Also transf., of music and literature.

  4. how do categories work? Classic theory (Aristotle through Wittgenstein): • categories are abstract containers • things are in the same category if they have certain properties in common Prototype theory (Eleanor Rosch and the cognitive sciences) • categories have best examples (i.e., prototypes)

  5. genre in rhetorical genre theory Charles Bazerman: “Genre is only the visible realization of a complex of social and psychological dynamics.” Amy Devitt: “Genres develop [ . . . ] because they respond appropriately to situations that writers encounter repeatedly.”

  6. genre in rhetorical genre theory (cont.) John Frow: “[F]ar from being merely ‘stylistic’ devices, genres create effects of reality and truth, authority and plausibility, which are central to the different ways the world is understood [ . . . ]” (2).

  7. where do conventions come from? American Psychological Association (APA) citation format • Wilcox, R. V. (1991). Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star trek: The next generation. Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65. Modern Language Association (MLA) citation format • Wilcox, Rhonda V. "Shifting Roles and Synthetic Women in Star Trek: The Next Generation." Studies in Popular Culture 13.2 (1991): 53-65.

  8. diagramming genre Genres in Frankenstein science fiction Structural dimensions of genre

  9. guiding questions • Where do genres come from and why do they form? • How and why do they change over time? • How do categories work cognitively and how do genres work as categories? • What is genre’s relationship with social context and how do the two interact? • What is the relationship between convention and creativity?

More Related