Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies

"For several years we have been accustomed to the idea that one of the features of our current cultural moment is the tendency of different genres to slip about and seep into one another. But--until now--nobody has progressed from just noticing this phenomenon to analyzing it rigorously and in detail. Marleen Barr's latest breakthrough book invents nothing less than a new theory of reading, one appropriate to an era in which genres won't stay still. Tackling prose fiction, theory, film, television, painting, and much else--and written in a lively, engaging, deliberately irreverent style--Genre Fissionis an indispensable contribution to modern cultural studies." --Carl Freedman,author ofCritical Theory and Science FictionMarleen S. Barr is the author of 'Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies', published 2000 under ISBN 9780877457039 and ISBN 0877457034.