ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Red Riding, Saint Walpurga, Magic Realism
22 Aug 2018
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Genre (carter: consider genre at a complex level: How does it set up expectations and pattern-making in your mind when meaning-making. We tend to agree about generic features: genre"s relate to codes outside of texts cultural, social and contextual propriety, genres extend from the stylistic devices or conventions by which we classify texts. Reflects social organisation as well as further embeds these norms. Narrative norms and pre-supposed knowledges, invokes structures of knowledge. Genre specifies what meaning is relevant to the reading. The genre cues you into what is the most relevant reading for that context, how to read it. Genre as an interpretative process called into being, an interpretative frame and active communicating occurring. What dimensions of texts are relevant here: three overlapping and inter-related dimensions by which genres produce their effects". Rhetorical structure (what speaking position they enable: how the text addresses the reader and sets up a speaking position with the audience.
