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Introduction: Genres as Fields of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Wai Chee Dimock
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What exactly are genres? Are they a classifying system matching the phenomenal world of objects, a sorting principle that separates oranges from apples? Or are they less than that, a taxonomy that never fully taxonomizes, labels that never quite keep things straight? What archives come with genres, what critical lexicons do they offer, and what maps do they yield? And how does the rise of digitization change these archives, lexicons, and maps?

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Special Topic: Remapping Genre Coordinated by Wai Chee Dimock and Bruce Robbins
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PMLA , Volume 122 , Issue 5: Special Topic Remapping Genre , October 2007 , pp. 1377 - 1388
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Copyright © 2007 by The Modern Language Association of America

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