B. Practices of Form – “Genre Matters”:

Re-visiting the Genre Question

Questions such as the following form the basis of the graduate school’s second subject area:

•  How may genre formation be described as a modelling process between prescriptive typology (regulation, closure) and creative innovation (transformation, emergence and performance of genre)? 
• What are epistemic functions of genres? Which strategies of historical discourse processing, knowledge production and the organization of knowledge/science do they correlate with?
•  How may generic form be analysed on the spectrum between immanent genre competence on the one hand and literary history and literary theory on the other?