Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Philosophy’s Broken Mirror: Genre Theory and the Strange Place of Poetry and the Poem from Plato to Badiou

Chapter 3 Remembering to Forget: The Role of Time, Space and Memory in Mikhail Bakhtin’s Treatment of Language

Chapter 4 The Question of Genre in Holocaust Narrative: The Case of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder

Chapter 5 Genre and Memory in Margareta Heinrich’s and Eduard Erne’s Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek’s Rechnitz ( Der Würgeengel )

Chapter 7 How (Not) to Translate an Unidentified Narrative Object or a New Italian Epic

Chapter 8 Seduced by Art : The Problem of Photography

Chapter 9 Vernacular Photographic Genres after the Camera Phone

Chapter 10 The Enduring Reach of Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Culture

Chapter 11 Objects after Adolescence: Teen Film without Transition in Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring

Chapter 12 Constructing a Voice of Authority in Upper Secondary School Essays

Chapter 13 Perceptions of Prior Genre Knowledge: A Case of Incipient Biliterate Writers in the EAP Classroom