Questioning Genre
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about genre.
The 'Questions of Genre' essay introduces a series of topics and questions and gives examples of resources to explore. It is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality (lecture) | Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video,… | Richard Evans |
| 22 | Poetics | Translated by S. H. Butcher | |
| 23 | Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' | Cover from a 1943 Comic of Gulliver's Travels Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons Authorship,… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 24 | Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' | This essay is the first of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr.… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 25 | The Romance of the Middle Ages | Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially… | Nicholas Perkins |
| 26 | Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World | ||
| 27 | Pride and prejudice | ||
| 28 | The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | ||
| 29 | Course: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi | An Open University course. Description: "This unit concentrates on Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster’s… | Open University |
| 30 | Plays by Thomas Dekker | The shoemaker's holiday -- The honest whore, pts l-2 -- Old Fortunatus -- The witch of Edmonton… |