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Bakhtin etc

Submitted by Marina Gallo on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 6:57pm.

After reading some Russian Formalist theory and discussing its application to our novels I was better able to understand some of the connections to genre we are trying to make. 

Bakhtin especially grabbed my attention because he talked about how genre is constantly evolving and that made a lot of sense to me. I think all genres have to evolve in some way so as to stay applicable to life. 

He described the letter as a genre and I had never thought about a letter being a genre before. Today letters seem so short and unliterary that it doesn't even seem like it can be compared to or put in similar categories as novels and poems. Should letters even be considered literary?  

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