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ISBN-10 :  9783030896683

ISBN-13 :   3030896683 

Author :  Ralph Cohen 

The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations—including Addison’s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy’s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel—in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.

Transformations of a Genre: A Literary History of the Beguiled Apprentice 1st Table of contents:

Autobiographical Introduction
Bibliographical History of a Genre
Ballad, Texts, Tunes, Material Culture
Companion Genres: From Ballad to Chapbook
Intervention 1: Initiating Genres—Addison’s Ballad Criticism and Its Parody
From Ballad to Tragedy: The Processes of Generic Conversion in The London Merchant
Generic Combinations and Recombinations: Revising, Editing, Collecting, Anthologizing
Tragedy to Novel: Genre and Value
Intervention 2: Problems of Generic Transformation
Undermining a Genre: Parody, Value Reversal, Counter-Genre
From False History to Historical Novel
Ballad Criticism, Genre Theory, and the Dismantling of Rhetoric
The Regeneration of Genre
Barnwell Bibliographies

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