Editorial: labelling our selves: genres and life writing
@article{Mcneill2005EditorialLO,
title={Editorial: labelling our selves: genres and life writing},
author={Laurie Mcneill},
journal={Life Writing},
year={2005},
volume={2},
pages={18 - 7},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162956935}
}A journal issue on ‘reconsidering genre’ invites two questions: what do we do, as life writing scholars, when we (re)consider genre, and why should we do it? Moreover, is genre still relevant, particularly when texts that are generically innovative or hybrid push the limits of categorization? In what ways can we usefully discuss genre without returning to rigid classificatory schemes or reinscribing traditional hierarchies of genres (many of which would place a low value on forms of life…
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