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KULTUROWE KONTEKSTY PRZEMIAN GATUNKU (NA PRZYKŁADZIE NOWELI I ROMANSU)
Cultural contexts of genre transformations (based on the example of short story and romance)

Author(s): Artur Rejter
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: genre theory; discourse; culture; short story; romance

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to describing the problem of cultural contexts of genre transformations, taking the example of chosen literary forms: short story and romance. A few aspects of text model have been analyzed: structural, stylistic and functional. There are three basic cultural contexts of genre changes: 1. archaecultural, 2. macrocultural, 3. microcultural. Each of them is connected with various factors and aspects of the genres. The analysis allows treating the two chosen genres as “drifting” ones, because they are very “fluent”, they migrate from a discourse to a discourse during their history from the Old-Polish period to contemporary times.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XXII
  • Page Range: 351-364
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish