Género e diferenciação genérica : de uma "ontologia dos objectos a uma pragmática do uso"

Resumo

Schaeffer elaborates in a trans-disciplinary way on the literary genre and on the differentiation of genre: it is a pragmatic approach to situations of concrete and institutional interaction, producing a systemization where the modalities of representation of works (Homeric poems, Greek tragedy, courtly lyric poetry, French Classical tragedy) are equated in order to establish affinities with certain inter-action situations (oral or written circulation, in an open or closed net), thereby attempting to demonstrate the frames of experience, themes and structures which are in force; it is Schaeffer’s intention to «look not at the texts but at the in-between-texts, the public space of Literature as a creative, socialized practice».