""This is a learned and lively book. It is a scholarly essay that
makes for absorbing as well as highly enjoyable reading; it
functions as an initiation to modern genre theory while making an
important move within that field; it deals with culture high and
popular, and a range of texts from the early modern era to the
contemporary period; and its writing runs a generic gambit of its
own, now theoretical exposition, now ingenious criticism, now
theoretical fiction.""-Ross Chambers, University of Michigan
""Besides being impressed with Beebee's overall contribution to
genre theory, I am also extremely impressed with his individual
chapters, with his comparative methodology in practice, as he reads
texts and genres against each other. These readings expose generic
instability in very provocative ways. Each chapter, each pair of
works struck me as exquisitely performed. This is a work that will
appeal to theorists of genre but also to generalists, and
especially to those of us beginning to work in cultural studies,
for Beebee takes popular culture as seriously as elite, canonical
culture.""-J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona In a series
of comparative essays on a range of texts embracing both high and
popular culture from the early modern era to the contemporary
period, The Ideology of Genre counters both formalists and
advocates of the ""death of genre,"" arguing instead for the
inevitability of genre as discursive mediation. At the same time,
Beebee demonstrates that genres are inherently unstable because
they are produced intertextually, by a system of differences
without positive terms. In short, genre is the way texts get used.
To deny that genres exist is to deny, in a sense, the possibility
of reading; if genres exist, on the other hand, then they exist not
as essences but as differences, and thus those places within and
between texts where genres ""collide"" reveal the connections
between generic status, interpretive strategy, ideology, and the
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