Form and genre as meaning-making tools

What this note covers

1. Why form is never neutral: the ideological weight of genre
2. Generic conventions of prose fiction: realism, interiority and narrative authority
3. Generic conventions of drama: performance, audience and the theatrical contract
4. Generic conventions of poetry: compression, the lyric I, and the contract of heightened attention
5. Hybridisation and the politics of mixed form
6. Form as ideological argument: close reading practice
7. Writing about form in the examination and extended response

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes