Literary Genres and Their Origins
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Italian List
ISBN-10
1803096683
ISBN-13
9781803096681
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint
Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 2026
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
454 grams
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A bold rethinking of genre as both form and philosophical problem. Why do we have literary genres, and what problems do they solve? In this original engagement with the ancient problem of literary genres, Enzo Melandri begins by asking why literary genres exist in the first place. His investigation extends beyond literary history, as important as it is, to become a philosophical inquiry into the limits of language and the strategies language must employ to register the impossibility of fully grasping its relation to the world. In this light, tragedy, comedy, epic, elegy, and so on emerge as the musical and emotional traces language bears from its encounter with its own limits.
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