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is a molten stream from which new forms will be cast. What takes shape is determined by relationships of life and class struggle determines the temperature.

If you now look back at the process of recasting literary forms of which we were speaking, you can see how photography and music (and from these we can judge other forms) will enter a molten stream from which new forms will be cast. You see confirmed that only the literarization of all relationships of life can give a correct notion of the extent of this process of recasting, just as the state of the class struggle determines the temperature at which it occurs in a more or less perfected form. (benjamin author as producer: 5)

is an institution between a writer and a public specifying proper use of a cultural artifact.

Genres are essentially literary institutions, or socal contracts between a writer and a specific public, whose function is to specify the proper use of a cultural artifact' (The politcal unconscious 1981:106)

is the historically specific conventions and ideals according to which speakers compose discourse and audiences receive it.

the historically specific conventions and ideals according to which authors [in Bakhtin's sense of authorship as the production of utterances] compose discourse and audiences receive it.

is the orienting frameworks, interpretive procedures, and sets of expectations that are not part of discourse structure, but of the ways actors relate to and use language.

In this view, genres consist of orienting frameworks, interpretive procedures, and sets of expectations that are not part of discourse structure, but of the ways actors relate to and use language' (1987: 670)

is recognized from the handling of its small change.

Genre is recognized from the handling of its small change.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

genre, n.All

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