Elements Of Genre Research Articles

Sensuousness and Intermediality as Stylistic Dominants in Jasmina Musabegović’s Works

This paper explores the two key features of Jasminina Musabegović's style – sensuousness and intermediality. These two features can be regarded as stylistic dominants in the works of this writer, essayist, critic, and editor, where orientation on language is always strongly present. Intermediality is in some cases realized as ekphrasis (verbal representation of a visual work of art, i.e. a painting, photograph, piece of architecture), whereas in other cases verbal devices create filmicity. so that some of the scenes in her novels look like movie frames. It is argued that there exists unity of style in all works of this author, whereby her novels contain elements of essays and other genres, and lyricism and sensuousness occupy a central place in all her texts.

Online PBPD and Coaching for Teaching SRSD Argumentative Writing in Middle School Classrooms

Teachers report a need for professional development in order to feel more confident and be more effective in providing writing instruction and intensive intervention to support middle school students. This study investigates the impacts of online practice-based professional development (PBPD) and coaching for self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) argumentative writing instruction on teachers’ implementation of the instruction. Using a pre-test–post-test design, the study also examined the effects of the SRSD instruction on students’ argumentative writing from source texts. Five middle school teachers from three regions across the United States participated in the PBPD and implemented SRSD with 55 middle school students with high-incidence disabilities or below-proficient writing skills. Following PBPD, teachers implemented the SRSD argumentative writing instruction with high adherence to dosage, fidelity of implementation, and quality. Student writing was scored for argumentative genre elements, holistic quality, total words written, and transition words. Results demonstrate that students improved on all measures. In addition, students reported feeling confident in their argumentative writing abilities. Teachers and students reported high social validity for the intervention. The benefits found in this research study provide a strong foundation supporting the application of comprehensive online PBPD with follow-up coaching to support teacher implementation of SRSD.

The Hybridization of Theater and Psychoanalysis

This article examines the concept of hybridity in the context of interdisciplinary approaches and genre-mixing practices in the humanities. It specifically considers the fusion of theater and psychoanalysis, which share common themes essentially drawn from the human psyche and condition. As a hybrid genre, theater emerges from literary texts, with choreographers adapting the narratives into performances. Consequently, theater is seen as an art form that incorporates elements of drama and other genres to create a polyphonic stage oeuvre.

Roman o podnebnih spremembah med znanstveno fantastiko in realnimi izkušnjami

Literary science, like other sciences, has since the 1990s been intensively responding to anthropogenic climate change in an environmental and socio-cultural context. Climate issues have in literature been narrated in an aesthetic manner, appealing to the reader through stories, stirring emotions in the reader, inviting the reader to reflect on certain values and to behave in an environmentally friendly manner. The present study focuses on a novel about climate change, which in the framework of the environmental genre occupies a space of much importance and which in the 1990s initially gained popularity in the Anglo-American linguistic context. Its structure includes elements of other genres, especially those of science fiction and thrillers. Recently, however, it has distanced itself from fantastic scenarios, moving towards realistic encounters with climate change that can be classified as environmental risk narratives, as illustrated by the example of the novel Zgodovina čebel (The History of Bees) by the Norwegian author Maja Lunde. Climate change is also presented in the novels Na Klancu by Tina Vrščaj and Primerljivi hektarji by Nataša Kramberger.

Exploring the Intersection of Crime and Society in Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice

This paper analyzes Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice, which depicts the discourse of darker side of modern Indian society, where crime, corruption, and inequality are prevalent. It follows three characters: Sunny, a rich criminal; Neda, a journalist; and Ajay, a loyal henchman. The narrative reflects on the complex social and cultural issues facing India today, such as corruption, casteism, gender inequality, and political unrest. It also challenges the stereotypes of crime fiction by mixing literary and genre elements. The narrative uses trauma as a methodology to explore the psychological and emotional effects of crime and violence on the characters and their relationships. It shows how trauma can be both a strength and a weakness, and how it can influence the way people see themselves and others. The narrative finds that crime and society are deeply connected in contemporary India and influence and contradict each other in complex ways. It further identifies how crime is not just a personal choice or morality, but also a result of systemic injustices and inequalities. The narrative presents a persuasive and insightful examination of the correlation between crime and society in modern India. It urges readers to reconsider their opinions on crime, justice, and ethics, and to grapple with the intricate realities of Indian society.

Hallucinatory Pragmatism in WebMage by Kelly McCullough

Science fiction and Fantasy being the fusion of rented and subtle elements of other genres stays conservative beyond any doubt. As a part of conventional literature, it provides its readers with easily fulfilled expectations. Hallucinatory realism is a fusion of dream and reality. The author has brought many magical elements. Though it looks like an ordinary novel, it is about the magical powers of the family. Through the theme of technomancy Kelly has blended tradition and technology in WebMage Series. It is expressed through the hallucinatory realism of Ravrin, the Greek hero who is in the disguise of student in the Harvard University. Though the character in the story was an ordinary human being with the powers of magic and webgoblin was a machine with the artificial intelligence, the situation they are placed is with the magical element.

The distinctive genre of 9/11 literature about children

The article explores the genre specifics of American 9/11 novels about children. The genre features of 9/11 literature include a modification of the classic educational novel. Such genre elements as the hero’s growing up process, their journey beyond ordinary life, and their return as changed individuals, still form the primary narrative focus of these works. However, the temporality and the impetus for action development are altered compared to the classic educational novel, which is typical for the subgenre of the initiation novel. The main catalyst of the plot becomes the traumatic experiences of the characters, representing either the trauma of loss or mental traumatization of a loved one. The interplay of road motive and motive of search symbolizes personal development and introduces elements of a detective quest, while romantic motives are linked to the outcome of the initiation trial and the formation of the character’s personality. To implement the tasks set, this study employs cultural-historical and comparative-typological methods with elements of structural analysis. The scientific novelty of this work consists in conducting a study of the genre features of literature about children and teenagers thematically based on the events of September 11, 2001, on a little-studied corpus of artistic material. For the first time in Russian science, the author of the article attempts to identify and summarize the characteristic genre features of this body of works. The main results of the study lie in revealing of hybridization of genres: the initiation novel is supplemented with elements of detective and romance novels. An important aspect here is the presence of motives of travel and heroism, coupled with the problem of the trauma of not-knowing, traumatic experiences of loss, and orphanhood. This article deepens scientific knowledge on the issue of the specificity of 9/11 literature, highlighting the process of transformation and enrichment of traditional genre elements in the context of historical events that have been reflected in the literary work of the representatives of contemporary culture.

Learning English Literacy through Video Games: A Multimodal Perspective

Multimodal analysis in learning English literacy is meant to be an eye-opener for future research related to video games as didactic tools as they are comparatively less studied, although there has been rapid growth in the multimedia industry in the past decades. The data in the present study were taken from three different video game genres: Role Playing Game (RPG), Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), and FPS (First Person Shooter), with two different titles for each genre. The data examined in this study were elements of composition and ten student game players. The compositional features in the collected data from the respective footage of the video games were based on a visual grammar by Kress and Leeuwen (2006) This research utilized the interactive model of qualitative data analysis by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014) in analyzing the compositional features. It consists of three parts: data condensation, data display, and drawing and verifying conclusion. After analyzing the composition, the players were interviewed to gather the vocabulary learned through the process of playing the games. This study found that in terms of composition features: 37 elements of information values, 37 saliences, and 36 framings. It can be concluded that these genres own more maximum disconnection framing than maximum connection. However, these students categorized fighting genre and shooting genre elements without centered information value. The implications of the study towards learning the English language are: in the first place, video games can be one the useful media to teach students reading and speaking literacy skills, especially vocabulary and historical knowledge. Secondly, these games help the players acquire the English language subconsciously and make them enjoy the learning process.

Жанровые особенности песен и благопожеланий в свадебной обрядности алтайцев

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the genre elements present in Altai songs and wedding well-wishes. The relevance is due to the lack of research on the poetics of wedding genres in Altai folklore in modern folklore studies. The novelty is identifying the functions and semantics of wedding songs and good wishes in the wedding rituals of the Altai people. During Altai wedding ceremonies, oral wishes and songs, known as jaŋar, are performed at every wedding stage. The distinctive characteristic of these genres is their strong association with ritual actions. Songs are an integral part of various ceremonies, including matchmaking, weddings, the bride’s procession, braiding, and rituals in the house of the bride’s parents. Good wishes are predominantly sung during the blessing ceremony. In terms of genre pragmatics, wedding songs and good wishes play a role in blessing a young family and honoring the parents of the bride and groom. The functional and semantic feature of wedding songs and good wishes of the Altaians is the affirmation of moral and ethical values and principles of living in society. The objective world of the Altai wedding is filled with symbolic meanings determined by their role in the ritual. The analysis of wedding songs and good wishes revealed the wide range of artistic and stylistic techniques employed in language, encompassing both formal and semantic aspects to convey specific conceptual ideas.

A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon

Abstract Among the most prolific and consequential US writers, Samuel R. Delany has published novels and short stories, a magnificent autobiography, various memoirs of social commentary, extraordinary essays of literary theory and criticism, and numerous (written) interviews. However, it is his Nevèrÿon sword and sorcery series (1979-87) that he describes as his most ambitious narrative “experiment.” Occupying Delany for nearly a decade, Nevèrÿon’s singularity as a narrative experiment is not solely achieved in terms of its complex unfolding as a series, with each tale accumulating over four volumes into an astonishing ensemble of stories, images, and worlds. Beyond its unfolding and enfolding of tales and beyond its “play” at the “game” of sword and sorcery central to its fictional experiment is its commitment to the “paraliterary” construction of his text. Refusing the distinctions marked out by “literary” and “non-literary,” Delany uses a serial narrative platform to braid together philosophical discourses and genre elements into a theoretically complex textual ensemble that comes to include both the rupture of AIDS and of an AIDS-like epidemic into the ninth tale of the series, the novella The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals (1985). Referring to it as his “novel of crisis,” Delany weaves New York City and the fictional world of Kolhari into what he calls “a document of our times,” opening sword and sorcery to a baroque discursive and rhetorical flux historiographically aware of itself both as a marginal cultural form and as a document of lives at the margins of a world-historic plague.

Жанровые особенности антиутопического научно-фантастического романа Пьера Буля «Планета обезьян»: коммуникативный аспект

The enduring popularity of 20th century science fiction authors among readers of all age categories has been noted in numerous works of literary scholars. An extremely important aspect is the fact that the author and the reader must have a common language in order for communication to be effective. The relevance of the study is due to the growing interest in the problem of interpreting the genre of science fiction works. The aim of this study is to try to trace the synthesis of genre forms from the point of view of communicativism and the theories of C. Darwin and T. de Chardin in the novel "Planet of the Apes" by the famous French fiction writer Pierre Boulle. Darwin and T. de Chardin in the novel "Planet of the Apes" by the famous French fiction writer Pierre BoulleIn the course of the study, the methods of contextual literary analysis, cognitive-discourse analysis, as well as stylistic and genre analysis were applied. As a result of the study, the conclusions were obtained that the novel "Planet of the Apes" by P. Boulle combines elements of the genre of science fiction novel, philosophical parable, utopia and dystopia. The novel is a satirical work, touching upon the themes of scientific progress, communication, evolution and human society, which are topical at present. The author, when creating a work, follows literary conventions or deliberately goes against them, creating something innovative. The genre of science fiction has been and remains a synthetic genre, incorporating elements of various genres, which intricately intertwined, enter into communication with the reader, helping him to create fictional worlds. Scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that for the first time in Russia the study of genre originality of P. Boulle's work in the aspect of communication with the reader is undertaken. The article may be useful for literary scholars, postgraduates, students and all those interested in the problems of genre synthesis in modern science fiction.

“Imagining Differently”: Tales of Tarot and the Fantastic in Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman

The essay discusses the role of the Tarot and the fantastic in Shirley Jackson’s novel Hangsaman (1951). As a female writer in mid-century America, Jackson uses elements of mysticism and fantasy genre as a means of interrogating the social order and gender politics of her times, but also to undermine the official patriarchal discourse and open new spaces of female experience. By blurring the boundaries between external and internal worlds, and by employing elements of the occult, the author shows reality and reason as arbitrary constructs and draws attention to other ways of meaning making. In contrast to the formal discourse and traditional science, Tarot images and its complex symbolism foreground “women’s ways of knowing” and offer an alternative feminine language beyond official systems of communication.

Amanda Maier’s String Quartet: an interpretation of the Romantic genre model

Statement of the problem. The proposed study is devoted to the chamber instrumental heritage of the Swedish violinist and composer Amanda Maier-Röntgen, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and the Leipzig Conservatory, whose person and work are practically unknown in the Ukrainian musical community. However, her chamber instrumental compositions are of indisputable interest for performers and have recently gained popularity among the latter. Also, the study of the composer’s best opuses, undoubtedly, enriches scientific ideas about the development of the leading genres of musical culture in the second half of the 19th century. Recent research and publications. The creative person of A. Maier-Röntgen is sporadically mentioned in reviews considering the Swedish musical culture (Jönsson, 1995; Karlsson, 1994; Öhrström, 1987; Öhrström & Eriksson, 1995; Riemann, 2017; Laurence, 1978), in some reference materials (Öhrström, n.d.; Riemann, 2017; Laurence, 1978). The name of the composer is also found in sources covering the work of J. Brahms, E. Grieg, and Julius Röntgen, the husband of Amanda Maier, also a romantic composer (Fuchs, 2001; Hofmann & Hofmann, 2006; Grieg, 2001; Vis, 2007). At the moment, there is the only research that directly examines A. Maier’s person – it is the dissertation of J. F. Martyn (2018), where considerable attention is paid only the life and creative path of the musician, her performing activities, as well as the general problem of gender inequality in the musical environment of the second half of the 19th century. Thus, today there are no musicological studies dedicated to the composer work by A. Maier. Objectives, methods, and novelty of the research. The purpose of the study is to consider one of the chamber instrumental opuses of the composer, the String Quartet in A Major, from the standpoint of an individual interpretation of the Romantic genre model. The novelty of the research consists in the first experience in Ukrainian musicology of studying the genre-stylistic features of Amanda Maier’s String Quartet. The research results are based on the use of such methods as historical and stylistic, genre and stylistic, comparative, as well as on the set of analytical musicological methods. Research results and conclusion. A. Maier’s String Quartet imitates the features inherent in the genre model formed in the Austro-German tradition, in particular, in the work of F. Schubert, the peculiarities of which are the reliance on song and dance genre elements, a large specific weight of lyrical and epic images and narrative, the absence pronounced conflict in the sonata allegro. But in the cycle there are contrasts between the dance-genre, lyrical and lyrical-dramatic spheres, which causes a certain “mosaic” of the form with rapid changes of images that reminds of the chamber works of F. Mendelssohn and R. Schumann. Manifestations of virtuosity in the Finale of the Quartet testify to the composer’s deep understanding of the specifics of playing stringed instruments and become an imprint of her performing individuality. At the same time, the Quartet also shows certain tendencies to experiment with the already existing Romantic model, which are manifested in the tonal openness of the cycle, the absence of typical tonal correlations between its parts and between the fragments of the form within of the parts, and in a bright contrast between the First part and the Finale.

Fancies explained

The concept of symbolic capital, introduced by Pierre Bourdieu (1986), has been applied to explain the circulation of value between game communities and the industry. The bottom-up approach can be found in the studies of so-called “gaming capital” accumulated by gamers (Consalvo, 2009), while the top-down approach focuses on the agents who hold the most power in the gaming industry (Nichols, 2013). These perspectives may require reconfiguration today: since the end of the 2010s, traditional power relations have been contested by ‘decentralized’ gaming that uses blockchain technologies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Their early adopters suggest that NFTs may disrupt traditional circulation of value to the benefit of players as opposed to major corporations. Many gamers, however, vehemently oppose NFTs in games. By combining these top-down and the bottom-up approaches, this article explains that the specific symbolic gaming capital remains systematically underappreciated in blockchain gaming, which operates along different vectors of power. To support my argument, I turn to the longest-running blockchain-based game CryptoKitties (Axiom Zen, 2017), and analyze the elements of the role-playing genre that appeared in the game during the collective process of continuous development. In the first case, these elements (‘fancies’) were added by the developers of the game, and in the second case, an RPG-like extension emerged as one of its fan spin-offs (KotoWars). I conclude that symbolic capital is community-specific in the case of blockchain gaming. It is only available to those who already possess considerable symbolic, and, much more importantly, financial capital within the crypto community.

Actualization of Bodily Aspect as Means of Reconstructing Socialist Realist Discourse in Novel “Librarian” by M. Elizarov

The ways of representing violence and the role of this category in constructing socialist realist discourse are considered. The novel “The Librarian” by Mikhail Elizarov is chosen as the research material. It is established that the novel synthesizes the tradition of socialist realist novels and genre elements of popular literature, with the author placing emphasis on the representation of violence. The article highlights that violence in the novel is visual and cinematic. It is revealed that the protagonist of the novel plays a significant role in such representation, as the artistic world is demonstrated through their perspective. The article shows that the acts of violence presented in the novel become indexes of a particular “Gromovian” world and contribute to the visual and ideological transformation of characters, as well as an inversion of familiar oppositions. The authors of the article determine that the “Gromovian” world is formed around the Book, which actualizes ideas of the periphery and the “golden age”: it is here where violence becomes a legitimate means of communication with characters from both the “Gromovian” and ordinary worlds. It is noted that violence, both physical and psychological, forms fundamental oppositions in the “Gromovian” world, such as “own” versus “other”, “senseless world” versus “ideal world”, and so on. Finally, it is pointed out that through violence, the socialist realist plot about the “remaking” of the hero and their rejection of their own self for the collective “we” is realized.

Effects of SRSD With Social Skills Prompts on the Writing Skills and Problem Behaviors of Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Teachers of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) often struggle with simultaneously meeting students’ writing and behavioral needs. Building on existing Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) literature, this study investigated the collateral effects of SRSD with social skills prompts on the writing outcomes and problem behavior of students with EBD. In a multiple probe across participants design study, we taught three upper elementary students with EBD opinion writing using the SRSD instructional framework. Outcome measures included the number of genre elements in participants’ written products, the length (i.e., total words written) and quality of written products, and the level of problem behaviors during 20-min observational sessions. Generalization measure involved the use of video prompts to determine the effects of SRSD on students’ overall writing outcomes. Post-SRSD data showed clear increases in the number of genre elements and length of written products for all participants. Additional holistic scoring revealed moderate improvements in the overall quality of written products across participants. Results on students’ problem behavior reduction were inconclusive. Implications for practice and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Mapping globalised Chinese webnovels: Genre blending, cultural hybridity, and the complexity of transcultural storytelling

Recent years have seen a significant surge in the global popularity of Chinese webnovels as an emerging form of participatory transcultural storytelling. This research combines computational and interpretive textual analysis to map the cultural features embedded in webnovel content, aiming to identify the genre elements, common lexicon, and story themes of 4040 translated Chinese webnovels on global platforms. The analysis shows the hybridisation of Chinese cultures, digital cultures, and genre fiction elements in webnovel storytelling, contributing to the growing spectrum of diverse voices in international self-publishing. Simultaneously, webnovels depict a varied mosaic of imagined China, based on both cultural sharing and nonsharing within today's complex Chinese society and beyond the notion of ‘Chineseness’ rooted in common heritage or official values, amplifying diverse perspectives like subcultures and resistances in transcultural storytelling. While webnovels bear witness to China's cultural outreach and digital prowess converging in a new storytelling form, this research posits that their cultural production remains bound within a material process where borderless digital cultures collide with the imposed boundaries of platformed publishing and government control.

H. KVITKA-OSNOVIANENKO À LA E. SWEDENBORG: DEMONIC AS COLONIAL

The paper offers a reinterpretation of a well-known classical literary work, focusing on its acquisition of new meanings, emancipation from the narrow framework of the ethnographic narrative, and discovery of resistance intentions within the context of postcolonial criticism. The research work explores the mechanisms by which the ideas of the Swedish mystic E. Swedenborg influenced H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s concepts of the afterlife. It also scrutinizes the incorporation of hell’s topology into the temporal and spatial dimensions of “The Easter of the Dead” and traces the doctrines explaining the idea of souls, the origins of human evil, the nature of sins and their consequences. Analogies and correspondences between worlds, the symbolism of national space, and the anthropology of corporeality are analyzed within the carnival realm and reinterpreted through the lens of Ukrainian burlesque and travesty traditions. Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s story contains links between demonological narratives, myths, legends, and, on the other hand, colonization by fear, an irrational sense of guilt, and the inevitable punishment of the enslaved by a repressive community. 
 The use of the demonic as a tool to influence the reader is determined by the logic of the author’s tropological thinking within the context of imperial censorship, dual identity, and demonstration of political loyalty. The creative use of archaic genre elements, travesty, and parody of folklore motifs affected the interpretation of the irrational, which was subjected to formalization and intertwined with ideology and hidden anti-colonial rhetoric. The colonization by myths, visualized by monstrous pictures and the fears they instill, is juxtaposed with their deconstruction, disenchanted with laughter, the healing power of the carnival, and replication of an ancient tradition in the collective memory. The secret of the ‘national narrative’ of “The Easter of the Dead” lies in this process.

The (Vi)Kings’ Saga: Mixed Modality as the Key to the Construction of Meaning in Jómsvíkinga saga

Abstract The objective of this article is to analyse the narrative functions of mixed modality in Jómsvíkinga saga, a text that combines elements of different saga genres, primarily the kings’ sagas and the legendary sagas. It is argued here that the mixed modality is not a sign of the early saga’s imperfection, but it serves as a narrative device that contributes to the saga’s capacity to indirectly express commentary on social issues that were current at the time of the saga’s composition.

الأدب الرقمي العربي في محكّ الرصد التجنيسي؛ تأملات ومقارنات

This paper deals with the topic of Arabic digital literature from a genre perspective, looking at the extent to which its texts have sufficient characteristics to support its classification as an independent genre, by delving into an established question, which should not be skipped under any reason or pretext. The study contends that Arabic digital literature is still at the beginning of its path towards independence and the acquisition of a foundation that may be deemed unique. The Arabic digital writer still adheres to the paper style, drawn to the genres of written literature, as his texts do not include evidence of a deep assimilation of the characteristics of literature. It also lacks adequate absorption of its production and reception space and a clear distinction between the forms of expression provided by modern digital publishers, compared to what is provided by traditional paper carriers. Many Arab innovators continued to ruminate on the techniques of paper-based literary writing, arbitrarily transferring them to the computer world, without subjecting them to processes of experimentation and diligence that fit the new carrier. As a result, what they created were stylistically faded copies of texts, as if written or displayed on paper. This holds true despite the fact that few of them showed some boldness in synthesizing the distinctive artistic elements of different traditional genres, which make the digital space a window for creating very innovative and witty literary combinations. While many have taken advantage of some of the characteristics of digital expression, such as anonymity and interactivity, to create new textual forms that reveal large areas of daring and eagerness to cross some red lines, they have largely remained imprisoned by traditionally forged themes. Many of their texts also unfortunately remain tainted with some suspicion in regard to their legitimacy at the level of intellectual property, due to the intensification of piracy and plagiarism in the midst of the digital space.