"Most of the essays in this collection were first presented as papers at a colloquium, entitled 'Rethinking Genre' held at Carleton University, Ottawa April 1992"--Preface.
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Series statement from book jacket.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ch. 1. Locating Genre Studies: Antecedents and Prospects / Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway -- Ch. 2. Genre as Social Action / Carolyn R. Miller -- Ch. 3. Anyone for Tennis? / Anne Freadman -- Ch. 4. Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre / Carolyn R. Miller -- Ch. 5. Systems of Genres and the Enactment of Social Intentions / Charles Bazerman -- Ch. 6. The Lab vs. The Clinic: Sites of Competing Genres / Catherine F. Schryer -- Ch. 7. On Definition and Rhetorical Genre / Eugenia N. Zimmerman -- Ch. 8. A Genre Map of R & D Knowledge Production for the US Department of Defense / A.D. Van Nostrand -- Ch. 9. Observing Genres in Action: Towards a Research Methodology / Anthony Pare and Graham Smart -- Ch. 10. Genre and the Pragmatic Concept of Background Knowledge / Janet Giltrow -- Ch. 11. 'An Arousing and Fulfilment of Desires': The Rhetoric of Genre in the Process Era -- and Beyond / Richard M. Coe.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this work, theorists reflect on the growing interest in genre studies in a number of inter-related disciplines such as literary theory, sociology and cultural studies, and examine the implications this reconception of genre has on both research and teaching.