TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION OF GENRE

Abstract

Although the term “genre” is used in critical language in a cursory manner, the conceptual limits of this word is rather ambiguous in Turkish. This essay is a comparative study of the different definitions of “genre” in the works of contemporary philosophers like Jacques Derrida, Georg Lukács, Tzvetan Todorov, David Fishelov and Mikhail Bakhtin

Keywords

• Genre
• Textual Genre
• Speech Genre
• Generic

TÜR ÜZERİNE KAVRAMSAL BİR TANIMLAMA DENEMESİ

Öz

“Tür” (genre) terimi eleştirel söylemde gelişigüzel kullanılsa da bu sözcüğün kavramsal sınırları dilimizde belirsizdir. Bu yazı, Jacques Derrida, Georg Lukács, Tzvetan Todorov, David Fishelov ve Mikhail Bakhtin gibi çağdaş düşünürlerin görüşleri ışığında tür kavramının farklı tanımlarını karşılaştırmalı olarak incelemektedir

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Tür
• Metinsel Tür
• Sözel Tür
• Türsel Baskınlık
• Türün Kanunu
• Kronotop.

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