The Functional Shift of Hybrid Genres in Modern Literature

László Bengi

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: XI. , Issue 2, 2016, p. 3-12., ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2016.11.2.3-12

Abstract:

Contemporary theoretical considerations bear a twofold relationship to the problem of genre: while generic traditions seem to be inherently present in any discourse about literature, it is hardly possible to conceal the deep theoretical doubt about the applicability of typological approaches to genres. By this, the interpretation of generic syncretism and hybridization has become questionable, altough the role hybrid genres played in modern arts cannot be omitted from the literary experience of modernism. It was not by chance that cross-genre phenomena gained central position during the 20th century. Genre conceptions contribute to the understanding of modernism relevantly inasmuch as they can get rid of the mere dichotomy of robustness and flexibility, and they stop to sustain an opposition between the theoretical stability of typology and the practical transformations of genres in history.

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