THE CONCEPT OF GENRE has had great staying power. Aristotle’s method of describing the origin, achievement, and decline of forms in his Poetics retains its force. Open any recent textbook for college composition; consult new work in rhetoric, media, and gender studies; observe the confusion that arises when the digital humanities pursues big data without a theory of classification: today, genre is more relevant than ever. Twenty essays by Ralph Cohen, recently edited by John L. Rowlett, help to explain why.1¹

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拉尔夫·科恩（Ralph Cohen）和体裁原则

体裁的概念具有强大的持久力。亚里士多德在他的《诗学》中描述形式的起源，成就和衰落的方法保留了它的力量。打开任何有关大学组成的最新教科书；咨询修辞学，媒体和性别研究方面的新工作；观察数字人文科学在没有分类理论的情况下追求大数据时会产生的困惑：今天，体裁比以往任何时候都更重要。二十篇文章由拉尔夫·科恩，最近由John L.罗利特编辑，有助于解释why.1 ¹