The Power of Genre

1986
Author:

Adena Rosmarin

The Power of Genre is an important, original, and far-reaching theoretical inquiry. It will have a major impact on genre studies.”
– Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

Adena Rosmarin is a former associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1980-81 was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Harvard University. She has also held a fellowship with the Stanford Humanities Center. Rosmarin’s articles on literary theory and interpretive history have appeared in Critical Inquiry, ELH, PMLA, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

The Power of Genre is an important, original, and far-reaching theoretical inquiry. It will have a major impact on genre studies.”
– Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania