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The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture de Anne H. Stevens

The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture

Editat de Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 ian 2020
Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry...microgenres come in all varieties and turn up in every form of media under the sun, tailor-made for enthusiasts of all walks of life.Coming into use in the last decade or so, the term "microgenre" classifies increasingly niche-marketed worlds in popular music, fiction, television, and the Internet. Netflix has recently highlighted our fascination with the ultra-niche genre with hilariously specific classifications -- "independent supernatural dramedy featuring a strong female lead" - that can sometimes hit a little too close to home. Each contribution in this collection introduces readers to a different microgenre, drawn from a range of historical periods and from a variety of media. The Microgenre presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific. It also affirms, in colorful detail, what most people suspect but have trouble fathoming in an increasingly homogenized and commercial West: that imaginative projects are just that, imaginative, diverse, and sometimes completely and hilariously inexplicable.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501345814
ISBN-10: 1501345818
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Brings together scholars and critics from multiple disciplines discussing multiple forms, helping make connections across disparate fields, such as: media studies, classics, history, anthropology, and literary studies

Notă biografică

Molly C. O'Donnell is an instructor in the Department of English at James Madison University, USA. She was the recipient of the Gaskell Journal Joan Leach Memorial Prize (2016), and her work has appeared in publications like Victoriographies and The Norton Introduction to Literature, 11th ed. (2013).Anne H. Stevens is the author of British Historical Fiction before Scott (2010) and Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction (2015). She is chair of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroduction (Molly C. O'Donnell, James Madison University, USA and Anne H. Stevens, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Chapter 1The Myron's Cow Epigraph (Paul Hay, Western Reserve University, USA)Chapter 2The Premature Ejaculation Poem (Christopher Vilmar, Salisbury University, USA)Chapter 3Prostitute Narratives of Ancien Régime France (Alistaire Tallent, Colorado College, USA)Chapter 4The Neoclassical Plague Romance (Matthew Duques, University of North Alabama, USA)Chapter 5Anesthesia Fiction (Jennifer Diann Jones, University of Portsmouth, USA)Chapter 6Magic-Portrait Fiction (Diana Bellonby, Vanderbilt University, USA) Chapter 7Topographical Reports of the American Frontier (John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Chapter 8Grangerism (Megan Becker-Leckrone, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Chapter 9Shirley Temple's "Baby Burlesks" (Nora Gilbert, University of North Texas, USA)Chapter 10Nudie-Cuties (Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College, USA, and Thomas M. Shaker, independent scholar)Chapter 11Giallo (Gavin F. Hurley, University of Providence, USA)Chapter 12Nuclear Realism (John Carl Baker, Nuclear Field Coordinator and Senior Program Officer, Ploughshares Fund)Chapter 13Anti-Sitcom Video Art (Susanna Newbury, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Chapter 14Home Depot Art (Danielle Kelly, Lake Forest College, USA)Chapter 15The Mommy Memoir (Mary Thompson, James Madison University, USA)Chapter 16Minecraft Fiction (Michael T. Wilson, Appalachian State University, USA)Chapter 17Heavy Metal Microgenres (Heather Lusty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Chapter 18Mexican Neo-Surf Microgenres (Aurelio Meza, Concordia University, Canada)Chapter 19Fanfiction Microgenres (Elyse Graham, Stony Brook University, USA and Michelle Alexis Taylor, Harvard University, USA)Chapter 20Machine-Classified Microgenres (Jonathan Goodwin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex

Recenzii

The essays collected in O'Donnell's and Stevens's The Microgenre address a timely topic: groups of texts previously considered unworthy of critical attention because of their ephemerality, faddishness, or shared eccentricity have now become objects of serious historical interest because those qualities link them to the "microgenres" generated by algorithmic targeting of consumers of digital media. The wide range of examples makes this recommended reading for literary historians, genre theorists, and students of popular culture alike.
Microgenres fascinate because of their startling specificity. But this book is much more than a fascinating bestiary. In surveying the oddly precise niches occupied by "plague romances" and "baby burlesks," The Microgenre also advances a macroscopic argument. The editors explain why this hyper-specific mode of description has become one of the central critical innovations of our own century, and demonstrate that it can help us understand the rough-edged and provisional character of genres long past.