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T1 El ensayo en la teoría de los géneros
A1 Besa Camprubí, Carles
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Ensayo (Género literario) - Historia y crítica
K1 Géneros literarios
AB The present article seeks to characterize the literary essay applying tools provided by Genre Theory. Firstly, it places the essay as part of the conditionalist poetics postulated by Genette in Fiction and Diction, which allows for the inclusion of non-fictional prose in the realm of literature. Secondly, the theoretical constructions that have dealt with the essay as a genre are revised. These constructions oscillate between the consideration of  the essay as a “weak genre” or even as a “bad genre” (mixed genre, stateless genre, pre-genre, anti-genre) and its categorization as a “strong genre” or fourth mode alongside the epic, lyric and dramatic modes which constitute the repertory of essencialist or constitutivist poetics. Finally,  attention is drawn to the failure of  theory in apprehending  the essay as a genre and also to the challenge implied in displacing genre issues in favour of a theory of  literariness.
SN 1989-7383
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/12316
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/12316
LA spa
NO Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2014, N.5, pags.101-123
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-abr-2024