Dr. Faustus

critical conflict is based on confusion: the discourse meaning (textual) and the interpretative meaning (contextual)

have been mistakenly separated. I regard the monologic understanding of genre, as a readymade form containing the

content, to be restrictive and prefer to use Bakhtinian definition of genre as 'a form shaping ideology.' The problem

of identifying the genre of the play thus ceases to be an either/or choice between morality and tragedy, allowing an

interpretative space for more holistic readings. Realizing that the generic dichotomy does not have to be resolved

negatively, gives room to a fuller understanding of the work. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, genre is a cultural

position from which perspective one views the world not merely a set of conventions. Genre as a particular tradition

of vision evolves throughout centuries of representational practice forming a certain path for our present

interpretative journey. In a way genre is no more nor less than a specifically patterned form of consciousness. Since

Bakhtin sees thinking itself as a dialogic process, genres too engage in a dialogue of heterogl

. . .
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