Not Another Adult Movie

Sune Auken (1, 2)

1 NorS - Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics
2 RGGS - Research Group for Genre Studies

The article offers a take on the old debate whether literature is its own purpose or a means to an end by describing the value of the generic competence established in the study of literature for its own sake. The article relies on literary as well as rhetorical genre theory to make its point.

Keywords: Genre; Literature; Fiction; Margaret Atwood; Spam mail; John Frow; C.S. Lewis; Tzvetan Todorov; Hans Robert Jauss; Carolyn Miller

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Literature

Sune Auken. Not Another Adult Movie: Some Platitudes on Genericity and the Use of Literary Studies. Why Study Literature, Henrik Skov Nielsen et.al., pp.119-134, 2011. ⟨hprints-00837561⟩