Other Transformations of an Imperialist Genre

Abstract

"Alternative forms of the narrative genre" that is commented here, is the product of an interdisciplinary project with three directions identified and complemented in the search of genres different from the traditional verbal narrative (oral or printed). For texts with these modalities we have different directions: a) the theoretical framework: socio-historical hermeneutic, b) the theoretical-didactic reflection of the illustrated magazines with fixed and moving image (film), and c) the narrative legal through the analysis of the Term in the court. A member and one or two collaborators, in addition to the students who work the lines of their respective tutors, direct each of these lines of generation and application of knowledge. "Alternative forms of the narrative genre" aims to identify, although not exhaustively, genres and formats different from the traditionally known literary story, brief or extensive and which, as an umbrella term, could be called in its written form, epic. In this genre would fit subgenres such as the story with multiple types and subtypes, fables, legends, novels, myths, among others. All of them in printed format, that is, produced for mass dissemination, in print from the contribution of Gutenberg. We must clarify that, in terms of media support, formerly there were those same genres written (even in its oral form before writing), but were written by hand, on parchment, in stone, on tiles, on paper and other media and material formats.