Author : Janet Giltrow
Release : 2009
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 338/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Genres in the Internet by : Janet Giltrow
Download or read book Genres in the Internet written by Janet Giltrow. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet communication: an arena challenging to traditional ideas of genre which assume a conventional stability at odds with the unceasing innovations of online discourse. Drawing on and developing new ideas of genre, the research reported in this volume shows, on the contrary, that genre study is a powerful means of testing commonplaces about the Internet world and, in turn, that the Internet is a fertile field for theorising genre.