On re-reading it, I remain particularly proud of this sentence:

"Thus, it may be true, as Freadman (2020) remarks, that rhetorical genre theory has limited stability, a short future, and a modest ambition (pp. 107–108). However, it must be noted that the near omnipresence of genre in human interaction ensures that its modest ambition is to be a mild, subdued form of grand theory."

#AnneFreadman #Genre #GenreResearch #GrandTheory

You probably don't know Anne Freadman.

She is the seeress of genre research. Dense to the point of being opaque, deep like the ocean and in all of this lucid like a beacon.

I can't claim to actually understand her, though I believe I understand her as well as anyone. But I admire her greatly.

#AnneFreadman #Genre #AnyoneForTennis #Vølve #Seerees

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