Review of The End of Genre: Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourses

Abstract

The End of Genre: Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourse challenges the notion that the humanities cannot, or should not, consider intentionality when interpreting discourse. In this text, Brenton Faber attempts “to address the relative inability of textual studies (and the humanities more broadly) to engage with and constructively participate in crucial problems of the twenty-first century” (p. 3). Because technical communication is a dynamic field in which the rules of genre are often superseded by the needs of the user, academics and program administrators will find much that is useful in this text for their teaching and for aligning their programs with industry trends.