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The End of Genre

Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourses

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Authors:
  1. Brenton Faber

    1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

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  • Examines professional discourses in medicine, science and engineering, data science, and public policy
  • Responds to calls for greater inclusion of humanities and arts in medical education and training
  • Provides a post-Covid perspective to the curation of intention

Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Personal: Intentions, An Autobiography

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 1-23

  3. Signaling and Framing, From Interpretation to Production

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 25-67

  4. Writing: After Intention

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 69-98

  5. Design: Nanotechnology and the City

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 99-131

  6. System: Medicine, Intention, and Terministic Screens

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 133-172

  7. Practice: Heuristics and Hermeneutics in Data Science

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 173-196

  8. Future: Curations [Form + Action + Intention]

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 197-222

  9. Utility/Postscript

    • Brenton Faber
    Pages 223-233

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 235-244
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About this book

This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept. The author argues that the academic disinterest in intention occurred simultaneously as genre criticism and later the rhetorical interest in genre came into its own. Genre became a way to simultaneously elide and naturalize intention. The book elaborates on the pedagogical, ethical, and empirical consequences naturalizing intention through genre has had for rhetorical studies and it offers a new term, “curations” to identify discursive forms, actions, and intentions working simultaneously. Finally, he also examines the gap between the humanities and STEM fields and shows specific ways scientists and engineers have called for the humanities to become more invested in intention as both a critical and an operational concept. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of discourse studies and critical discourse analysis, rhetoric and professional communication, including those in fields such as medicine, engineering, STS and business studies. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

    Brenton Faber

About the author

Brenton Faber is Professor of Writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The End of Genre

  • Book Subtitle: Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourses

  • Authors: Brenton Faber

  • Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08747-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08746-2Published: 03 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08749-3Published: 04 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08747-9Published: 02 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5990

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Literature, general, Genre, Professional & Vocational Education

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