Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Pueo

La ópera se considera comúnmente un género musical, pero su estatuto literario parece ser más bien dudoso. La intención de este artículo es poner en claro esta cuestión, tomando como referencia la teoría de los géneros literarios, la teoría teatral y la semiótica musical. La teoría literaria debe tener en cuenta la especificidad de ciertos géneros literarios cuya recepción ha sido destinada a ser acompañada por la música. Los géneros teatrales se definen por la presencia física de uno o más actores que representan sus personajes ante un público, de forma que dichos géneros pueden clasificarse por emplear o no el lenguaje y/o la música: esto significa que la ópera ocupa un lugar en la clasificación de los géneros literarios por su conjunción de lenguaje y música. Esta conjunción no es mera yuxtaposición, ha de ser pensada como simbiosis entre dos sistemas semióticos que colaboran para producir una forma específica de obra literario-musical que ha de considerarse un género literario y teatral con características especiales. Opera is generally considered a musical genre, but its literary statute seems to be rather uncertain. The aim of this article is to clarify this subject, taking as reference literary genre theory, theatrical theory and musical semiotics. Literary theory must take into consideration the specificity of certain literary genres whose reception is intended to be accompanied by music. Theatrical genres defines themselves by the physical presence of one o more actors that impersonate some characters for an audience, so this genres can be classified by the use or the disuse of language and/or music: this means that opera occupies a place in the classification of literary genres because of its conjunction of language and music. This conjunction is not mere yuxtaposition, it has to be thought as a symbiosis between two semiotic systems that collaborate to produce an specific form of musical-literary work that must be considered a literary and theatrical genre with special characteristics.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 00014
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hamdan Mukafi

Globalization era is marked by information and technology advancement. It brings jungle of sign, obscuring definitive convention, or even creating a new definition, which is occurred in Indonesian literature. Colonialism history is a center convention which defines Indonesian literature, the literary genre is one of it. Reflecting a case of colonialism; England with its literary genre convention, that are a poem, fiction, and drama – are getting “resistance” from America, the continent that “occupied” by it, which had been opening free space to establish literary genres, such as sermon and speech are included. Therefore, in this case, innovation to Indonesian literary definition always a chance. Cross-media literature, in a blanket of information and technology advancement, had been born with hybridizing text, audio, and visual. Internet medium such as YouTube being its publication method. In 2011, Fahd Djibran and his colleagues gave birth to literary work named revolvere project – when the creation of audio-visual no longer arranged, but parting to literature. The born of revolvere project followed by many artists who answered to the mood of the age. Many new names come up like visual-poetry, visual-fiction, and more – putting them in one room known as Literary Reformer. It has its structure, interpreted in hybridative form, but opening to be studied in a different way when separated. This lead to a question of its legitimation in Indonesian literary world. So, Jane Stokes genre theory chose to examine its worthiness as Indonesian literature’s new creation room in genre classification. In this research, the theory of semiotics, the field of cultural production, and basic of taxonomy are implemented to observe its position to classify and struggle scheme in Indonesian literary world. Then, literary reformer denoted as Indonesian literature reflection, a success of mixing arts spices in one chalice, creating Indonesian literature new definitive identity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Calvo Tello

What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.


2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-275
Author(s):  
Andrew Knapp

Abstract This article has two components. The first is a theoretical discussion of genre, in which two distinct approaches are outlined. Literary genre theory, which has prevailed in biblical scholarship of the past century, is useful but has certain limitations since a literary genre is an historically situated category. Rhetorical genre theory, on the other hand, defines genre in a transhistorical way that allows one to employ it in situations where literary genre theory does not apply, such as when comparing texts from different cultures and time periods. The second part of the article illustrates the preceding through a response to J. Randall Short’s recent monograph, The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David. The article submits that Short employs an unsound understanding of genre, treating apologetic—a transhistorical phenomenon that appears in all human cultures in various forms—as a literary genre instead of a rhetorical genre.


2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Irene Morra
Keyword(s):  

Irene Morra shows how the conflict between words and music that was contested in “Billy Budd” can be extended to almost all modern British opera. Morra argues persuasively that a number of modernist writers came to view the libretto “as an alternative literary genre, one that would allow for the expression of literary ideals of musicality”.


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