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7 hours ago · Nor is the attribution applied to further genre subdivisions, as ‘standardization’ is not (or only very rarely) used in reference to, say, tragedy, satire, or the sonnet. The same holds true for subdivisions like still life, symphony, installation, auteur film, one-act play, Bildungsroman, nude, children’s book, etching, and string quartet.
7 hours ago · If this supposed rule—to which, it is said, there are hardly any exceptions—identifies art with such forms as tragedy, elegy, symphony, still life, Bildungsroman, oil painting, etc., then one finds oneself faced with a traditional definition that, while categorically rejecting popularity in its domain relatively infrequently, refrains from either regularly considering such popularity to be possible or striving to achieve it (with the exception of the centuries-spanning ‘classic ...
7 hours ago · In itself, this is a premise teeming with possibilities. In this time of rapid environmental change, climate fiction is a genre that is increasingly gaining currency, even if its practitioners are still finding their way around the scope of the Anthropocene.
7 hours ago · What in the ‘pre-modern’ conception was the reliable and ingenious fulfillment of the rules laid down by poetics is now the skillful adherence to genre requirements that have not been formulated in writing. Apologists for genres like the Western or disco music argue that these genres—by dint of their standardized configurations—provide ...
7 hours ago · Sweden has just rolled out a new law that lets parents share their paid leave with friends or family members so they can help out with the kids and still get 80% of their salary. Anna Tenje, the Minister for the Elderly, said, ''These changes empower parents to shape their own lives while also fostering stronger bonds between children and both ...
7 hours ago · Marianne answers the door when Connell rings the bell. She’s still wearing her school uniform, but she’s taken off the sweater, so it’s just the blouse and skirt, and she has no shoes on, only tights. Oh, hey, he says. Come on in. She turns and walks down the hall. He follows her, closing the door behind him. —Sally Rooney, Normal People
1 day ago · Fyodor[a] Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[b] (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 [3][c]), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, [4] as many of his works are considered highly ...
