{"id":34915,"date":"2013-12-03T04:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34915"},"modified":"2013-12-03T06:45:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:45:12","slug":"trope-theory-cane-and-the-metaphysical-case-for-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34915","title":{"rendered":"Trope Theory, Cane, and the Metaphysical Case for Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trope Theory, <\/em>Cane, and the Metaphysical Case for Genre<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Genre<\/a>
\nVolume 46, Number 3<\/a> (Fall 2013)
\npages 239-263
\nDOI: 10.1215\/00166928-2345605<\/a><\/p>\n

Katie Owens-Murphy<\/a><\/strong>
\nDepartment of English
\nUniversity of Minnesota, Duluth<\/em><\/p>\n

Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies<\/a> as a theory and methodology has never quite recovered from the opposition of Jacques Derrida<\/a>, whose well-known essay \u201cThe Law of Genre<\/a>\u201d (1980) accused literary taxonomies of distorting the inherently indeterminate meanings of texts by imposing arbitrary restrictions, or \u201claws,\u201d on our reading practices. This essay surveys the major objections to genre criticism lodged by its principal critics (especially Derrida) before introducing and advocating \u201ctrope theory,\u201d a concept from a branch of analytic philosophy called metaphysics, in response to these objections. It then provides a sustained formal analysis of Jean Toomer’s<\/a> Cane<\/a><\/em> (1923) to demonstrate trope theory’s superior ability to account for generically hybrid narrative texts and its ability to yield a seemingly infinite number of readings and interpretations.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trope Theory, Cane, and the Metaphysical Case for Genre Genre Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 239-263 DOI: 10.1215\/00166928-2345605 Katie Owens-Murphy Department of English University of Minnesota, Duluth Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies as a theory and methodology has never quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[16485,16486,1996,16484],"class_list":["post-34915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-genre","tag-genre-studies","tag-jean-toomer","tag-katie-owens-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}