DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ancient Greek Comedy, Elegy, Family Resemblance
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Introduction to literary and cultural studies ii learning diary: genre theory. Categorization, genuse or species, sort, variety or description. Aristotle: epic, tragedy, old comedy, new comedy, elegy, iambic, satire, lyric, poetry, lyric, epic, dramatic. Prototype semantics main idea: classes have a common core and then fade into fuzziness at the edges limitations: core rely on arbitrary and constructed set of characteristics, conventional & contingent. Genre helps the reader to work and cope with the text. When putting a text into a specific genre the reader knows which strategy or which way to deal with it is suitable. Definitions of poetry : link: poems as hyperstructured texts phonological (sound, meter,rhyme, rhythm ), morphological (word info, repetition of word), Author voice/speaker explicit/ implicit addresse reader composition & literary conveentions. It possesses the typical form of a sonnet: rhyme scheme and rhythm, iambic pentameter, 3 quartets with cross rhyme, 1 rhyming couplet.
