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.
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