Genre, Trope, Gender: Critical EssaysR. Barry Rutland Northrop Frye embellishes the theory of genre in "Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult." In "The Power of Postmodern Irony," Linda Hutcheon furthers her reputation as a theorist of contemporary culture, and Shirley Neuman investigates gender in writing and reading in "Autobiography, Mothers' Bodies, the Reproduction of Mothering." |
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