A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE GENRE TRANSFORMATION THEORY
Keywords:
genre transformation, generic mixture, Barnwell ballad, narratives, new generic method.Abstract
This article analyzes the pre-existing, but not yet fully developed, theory of genre transformation. In this, the work of English literature professor and writer Ralph Cohen on genre transformation is taken as a basis and the book is analyzed. Through this work, Cohen clearly and thoroughly reveals a new perspective and understanding of genre transformation. In order to further analyze the transformation of the genre, Cohen discovers new meanings by comparing the Barnwell ballad with what he believes to be a contemporary, Delonoy’s "The Rich Merchant man".
References
Farmer, Philip José, Strange Relations (Ballantine: New York, 1960)
Galloway, Priscilla, Truly Grim Tales (Delacorte: New York, 1995)
Garner, James Finn, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1994)
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Gubar, Susan, The Mad Woman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Imagination (Yale UP: New Haven, 1979)
Husain, Shahrukh, Women who Wear the Breeches: Delicious and Dangerous Tales (Virago: London, 1995)
Jones, Diana Wynne, Fire and Hemlock (Methuen: London, 1985)
Kolbenschlag, Madonna, Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Models (Doubleday: New York, 1979)
Kushner, Ellen, Thomas the Rhymer (Gollancz: London, 1991)
Lee, Tanith, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (DAW: New York, 1983)
Lieberman, Marcia K., "‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale", College English 34 (1972), 383-95, repr. in Zipes 1986 below, 185-200
Donoghue, Emma, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (Hamish Hamilton: London, 1997)
Dowling, Colette, The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence (Pocket Books: New York, 1981).
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.