Жанри та стилі (англійською мовою)

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1. Concept of genre in contemporary literary studies: main definitions, functions, and critical debates.
2. Historical and cross‑cultural reception of literature and its impact on genre formation and genre expectations.
3. Evolution of genre classifications in Ukrainian and international literary theory.
4. Authorial reworking of genres: hybridisation, syncretism, and subversion of established genre conventions.
5. Reader’s reception of genre signals: horizon of expectations and interpretive strategies.

6. Relationship between literary kinds (epic, lyric, drama) and genres; problems of borderline and mixed cases.
7. Structural and stylistic features of major epic, lyric, and dramatic genres in English literature.
8. Genre evolution: how historical, social, and cultural contexts modify classical genres.

10. The concept of digital literature and its implications for traditional genre theory.
11. Hypertext fiction and interactive prose/poetry: narrative structure, reader agency, and genre status.
12. Multimodal and multimedia literary forms (visual novels, narrative games, electronic poetry) as new genre configurations.
13. Popular online genres: fanfiction, Twitterature, quest‑literature; their poetics, authorship models, and readership communities.
14. Expansion of literary boundaries in the 21st century: from print genres to transmedia storytelling.

15. Literary style as a theoretical concept: levels of style, individual vs period style, and their interaction with genre.
16. Historical change of dominant styles (e.g. Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism) and their generic correlates.
17. Parody as a mode and as a genre: mechanisms, targets, and its role in re‑evaluating earlier styles and genres.
18. Stylisation, pastiche, and imitation: definitions, distinctions, and functions in contemporary literature.