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This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other. The reader is guided into the discussion surrounding this key concept and its history through a general introduction, followed by eighteen chapters that represent a variety of discursive practices as well as analytic methods from several scholarly traditions. This volume will have wide appeal to several academic audiences within the humanities, both in Finland and abroad, and will especially be of interest to scholars of folklore, language and cultural expression.

Preface ...11
Acknowledgements ...14
Introduction
Frog, Kaarina Koski and Ulla Savolainen
At the Intersection of Text and Interpretation ...17
An Introduction to Genre
Roots of Western Genre Theory ...18
Genre and Text ...20
From Text to Interpretation ...23
Genre Theory Today and Tomorrow ...27
A Multivocal Discussion ...30
I Theoretical Approaches to Genre ...31
II Relations between and within Genres ...32
III Between Folklore and Literature ...33
IV Emic and Etic Definitions ...35
V The Politics of Meaning-Making ...36
Multifaceted Perspectives ...38
I Theoretical Approaches to Genre
Frog
1. “Genres, Genres Everywhere, but Who Knows What to Think?” ...47
Toward a Semiotic Model
The Term “Genre” ...49
Toward a Definition ...51
Genre as Social Semiotic ...56
A Usage-Based Approach ...57
Aspect 1: Form ...60
Aspect 2: Content/Enactment ...62
The Form–Content/Enactment Relation ...64
Aspect 3: Practice ...65
The Form–Content/Enactment–Practice Constellation ...66
Aspect 4: Functions ...68
The Four-Aspect Model of Emergent Genre ...70
A Usage-Based Approach to Variation ...72
Problems of Horizons and Historical Genres ...74
Cultural and Cross-Cultural Genre Typologies ...76
Genres, Social Resources and Application ...79
Tomi Kokkonen and Inkeri Koskinen
2. Genres as Real Kinds and Projections ...89
Homeostatic Property Clusters in Folklore and Art
What is the Purpose of Genre Classification? ...91
Genres as Homeostatic Property Clusters ...95
Laments as a Local Kind – or a Universal One? ...98
People, Their Genres, and the Historicity of Genres ...102
Genres, Classes, and Theories: Some Consequences ...105
II Relations between and within Genres
Kaarina Koski
3. The Legend Genre and Narrative Registers ...113
Classificatory Ideal and Its Critique in Legend Studies ...115
Terminological Problems – What Do We Mean by Fabulate? ...118
Contemporary Legends and the Widening Perspective ...120
Genre as Practice ...124
Narrative Genres in Linguistics ...126
Genre and Register ...127
Narrative Registers as Instantiations of Legend ...129
Conclusion ...131
Rebecca M. C. Fisher
4. Genre, Prayers and the Anglo-Saxon Charms ...137
“Charms” and “Prayers” ...139
Case Study: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 ...145
Conclusions ...149
Antti Lindfors
5. Notes on Reflexivity and Genre in Stand-Up Comedy Routines ...152
Stand-Up Routines as Generic Texts ...153
Politics of Presentation ...155
Genres as Tools of Stand-Up Routines ...156
Managing the Performance: Framing and Footing ...157
Lindström’s Elephant Routine ...159
And Then What? ...167
Lotte Tarkka
6. The Poetics of Quotation ...175
Proverbial Speech, Entextualization and the Emergence of Oral Poems
From Proverb to Proverbial Speech ...177
Proverbial Couplets as Formulae ...181
Representing Proverb Performances ...184
From Proverb to Aphoristic Poem ...187
Composition in Proverb Performance ...190
The Poetics of Quotation ...194
III Between Folklore and Literature
Ulla Savolainen
7. The Genre of Reminiscence Writing ...203
Applying the Bakhtin Circle’s Genre Theories
The Bakhtinian Idea of Genre as a Dialogic Framework ...205
The External Orientation of Reminiscence Writings ...208
The Internal Orientation of the Genre ...211
Eeva Kilpi’s Works ...213
Levels of Intertextuality ...216
Conclusions ...222
Camilla Asplund Ingemark
8. The Chronotope of the Legend in Astrid Lindgren’s Sunnanäng ...232
Toward an Intergeneric Level of Bakhtinian Chronotopes
Chronotope, Genre and Intertext ...233
The Generic Chronotope of Short Stories and Belief Legends ...235
The Red Bird ...236
My Nightingale is Singing ...242
Towards a Third Level of Chronotopes? ...248
Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen
9. Genre and the Prosimetra of the Old Icelandic fornaldarsögur ...251
Saga Genre in Manuscript Compilations ...252
The Role of Verse in the Prose Sagas ...253
Poetry and the Development of the fornaldarsaga Corpus ...254
Divisions of the fornaldarsaga Subgenre ...258
Genealogies and Regnal Lists ...259
Fornaldarsögur Related to konungasögur ...259
Germanic Heroic Legend ...260
The Hrafnista Family Sagas ...261
Romances ...262
Fornaldarsögur without Verse ...265
Conclusions ...267